Production video - Adding Structure

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Color 3:42
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Page adjustments 1:28

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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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In this video, we looked at the basics  of our rectangle tool to create the kind  of structured boxes for our website. What we're gonna do now is do a bit of a session where I go  through and add all the boxes. You can watch this at double speed  or skip it if you want to. What I'm gonna do is I got my first box here. What I'm gonna do is just duplicate this box over  and over again for the different areas. So I'm gonna use my trick to select it here, a graphic.

I'm gonna hold down alt and drag it down. I'm gonna hold a shift at the same time  and it kind of snaps it all the way underneath. Okay? And with this graphic here, I'm gonna call this one. Um, I'm gonna open up this tool here. My properties panel.

I'm gonna pick this one. This is this kind  of pinky color, peachy color. And this one, instead of, that's gonna be called the box  who we are, add box at the front, just  to make it clear from a distance, uh, what I'm looking at,  the kind of structured boxes. Do the same thing with this one. I'm gonna drag him underneath  and he is using properties panel. Here's the dark purple.

Okay? And here's box. Here's the services box. And hold him down, drag him down,  and he is going to be the box  for our portfolio. We've kind of run outta the edge of our pages. Let's change the color with him first.

Actually, he's that color. Now we've run outta the edge. What we can do remember is grab our art board tool,  make sure we select on the desktop version,  and I'm gonna drag it down. Now how far to drag it down, I've zoomed out a little bit. Who knows? At the beginning, okay.

It's not until you get all your content on there,  you know how big it's gonna be. So I'm gonna oversize it, okay? For the moment, make it nice and big. And then I'm gonna go back into my move tool. I'm gonna click on him. Okay, so a box portfolio,  and I'm gonna hold down the alt key drag underneath.

And actually this chunk in here  is going to be a big white area. It's gonna have my um, people or team area. This last bit here is gonna be the green,  and this one here is gonna be called  my contact form. And then just underneath it, drag it down. I'm gonna have this last one is  one of the non-official colors. Okay?

Just one of the, like a dark gray for my footer. Now it's a little big. So what I'm gonna use is my transform tool. So Command T, remember Command T,  and I'll make it a little smaller. That's gonna be my footer. Now I kind of have a rough idea of the page height.

I'm gonna suck it back up using the outboard tool. Click on this top one here,  and it should snap to the bottom there. Back to the move tool when you're finished. Okay, now that I've got the desktop done,  I could move everything across to my mobile version  and start laying that one up. What I find it's a lot easier to work on one,  and then once you've completed one and finished  and worked all the bugs outta one of the views is  to then start on, say the next one,  and then work onto mobile. Now, a lot of people start with mobile first.

Okay? If that's the priority for their website,  it's definitely the way to go. There's definitely a lot more challenges getting everything  ready for mobile for me,  primarily my site's being used as desktop. So I start with desktop.
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