Adding structure to your site with the vector shapes

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49 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Web design skills are one of the most employable opportunities of our lifetime. In this course you’ll learn how to design a professional website in Photoshop. We’ll start right at the basics of Photoshop and work our way through to building professional website concepts.

I created this course for people new to the world of website design and Photoshop. I created this for people nervous about changing their careers into the world of web design.

You’ll learn how to design desktop, tablet and mobile versions of your website. You’ll learn what types of files and code are required at the end of your job. This course is for people serious about making money as a professional web designer.

Now let me help you earn more money, get that job and become more awesome!

What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Photoshop CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

  • No previous Photoshop or web design experience is necessary.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 49 lectures 3 hours of content!

  • Forum support from me. 

  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Ways to preview your designs straight to your mobile device.

  • Firm understanding of responsive web design.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. No previous experience is necessary. 

This course is NOT suited to people highly experience in the world of website mockups in Photoshop already.

Course duration 2 hours 43 mins

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Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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All right. In this tutorial we're gonna mock up some of the big kind  of structured areas using the rectangle tool. Now, the rectangle tool for the people  that are web designers know  that it creates essentially div tags  that you can pull the style and size and colors  and things from later on. So you've gotta make sure you're using this  rectangle tool here. If you can't find the rectangle tool, click hold,  drag it down, and you might find  that the last tool you're using the ellipse tool,  you might have to hold it down and grab the rectangle tool. What we're gonna do is, if you're following along using my  template, I'm going to,  there's an option here, it says, called Delete me.

I am gonna actually delete that  'cause it gets rid of these little green boxes. That's my little advertising bits there. So I'm gonna bend him, I'm gonna zoom in a little bit,  command plus, and I'm gonna zoom in  so I can see the edges of my desktop view. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start creating, okay,  so my first box is going to be my big kinda main hero image,  and I'm gonna use this purple here. So I'm gonna click that or pick it from your swatches panel. And I'm gonna click hold and drag.

And what you'll notice is that I can drag over the edges. It's no problem. Okay? And it wraps to the edges there. Now, if yours has gone the wrong color, like mine has,  it's remember the last color,  even though my foreground color says Be this lovely  new, bring your laptop purple. What you can do is just click on it again  and it will dry change.

Or if I go to undo, I can click up here  and pick the color from my swatches panel. Great. And so that's gonna be my big kind  of hero graphic image. What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna add my nav bar. So I'm gonna use the rectangle tool again  and I'm gonna click hold and drag over the top here. And I'm guessing a little bit.

Okay, so this is gonna be my navigation bar. What I wanna do is fill it with black. Now black is somewhere in the top of your swatches here. Um, or you can use it from up here. I'll pick this as my foreground color. Great.

So that's going to be my navigation panel. What we're gonna do in the end is we're gonna have an image  underneath the navigation that we can still see. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna have this,  um, nav bar selected. The way I know it's selected,  I can see it here in my layers pan. What I'm gonna do is double click the word rectangle  and call this one nav bar. And I'll call this one here Graphic.

Now on the nav bar here, I've got this one called opacity,  and if I lower the opacity a little bit, okay, um,  maybe down to about 80%. What you'll notice is that if I lower it right down,  can you see it's actually quite transparent  over the top of the background. Now this is up to you and how much our C3 you want it to be. And we'll change it probably later on when  we get our image underneath. But from the moment, that's how you change the opacity  of any of your rectangles. Next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna shuffle across here  and for this tutorial, we're gonna skip tablet just so  that the tutorial's not, uh, 10 hours long.

I'm gonna do a mobile version. Okay? So on mobile, how I know I'm a mobile,  you can see I'm here in my layers panel  is the extra small version. I'm gonna go into this and delete where my name  and my website is, delete that, don't need that. And  What we're gonna do though is we're gonna zoom out. So I'm gonna close that, pop it in, zoom out a little bit.

And what I wanna do is take these  rectangles and move them across. So I'm gonna switch to my move tool. I'm gonna use my trick we learned in the early  video by holding command down. I'm gonna click the rectangle, okay, which is my nav bar,  and I'm gonna drag it across, holding the al key. And what the alt key member dragging  that will do is it will make a copy as it moves across,  and to get it in the right function, the right bit,  you might have to give a little wiggle,  but there it looks like it's perfectly lined up. Great.

I'm gonna move this one across as well. So this purple one here, holding EE down. Okay. And it's selected the hero graphic. I'm gonna hold the alt key and drag it across. I'm gonna move it so it lines up perfectly Great.

We've got a slight problem where the hero graphic is  above the nav bar. So all we need to do is to change the order  of this is click hold and drag the hero underneath the nav. Okay? So I've got my desktop  and my mobile view with my two rectangles,  and these rectangles are gonna be used as the structure  or the DIB tags for my website.
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