Understanding responsive mobile & tablet design

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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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Responsive web design is a way  to change your website depending on the browser size. Now I'm showing him Smashing Magazine. Smashing Magazine is a website that I read a lot,  and I really like the effort they went into  to redesign the different pages,  depending on the browser size. So at the moment, we are looking at it as you would on, uh,  say, a really big screen like an iMac  or kinda a 4K monitor  or something really big in high definition. You can see there's a nav on the left, a sub nav,  our main content and some ads. But once I get smaller, say down  to a regular desktop view, can you see it changes.

It goes down to this navigation here,  our main content and ads. But it gives it smaller, say down to say a tablet view. Okay? Changes quite a bit. Ditches. The ads, uh, the navigation becomes a bit smaller.

This is along top here. Now, if I get down even smaller, down to the mobile view,  okay, things change quite a bit again. Now what you need to take from that is  that when you're designing in Photoshop,  Photoshop is a static medium. It's not scalable, stretchy one, uh,  like you can get when it's finally put out as a website. So the trick for design is when mocking up a prototype in  Photoshop is that you'll need to design the different views  so that when you hand it over to, uh, the developer,  they know what the site does when it gets done to mobile,  what happens when the menu is in tablet view. Um, all those sorts of questions need  to be answered in your mockup.

What you don't want is loads of questions back  and forth between you  and the developer trying to answer questions  that should have been fleshed out in the concept stage. And that is a quick introduction to responsive web design.
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