Web 101 for Designers: What you should know before your first site

March 20th, 2009
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I gave a talk yesterday at the monthly meeting for the Twin Cities Creatives Group: we’re a group of professionals in the Twin Cities metro region, mostly traditional graphic designers, product designers, photographers, writers and few web designers. We have an email list and generally try to help each other when there are any questions of a design or technical nature.

Since there was much interest at a previous meeting in web sites I offered to give a talk about what a graphic designer, or any designer, should know about designing for the web. Just the basics. A fast overview. Nothing too in depth. Forty people showed up, and I ended up recording a screencast of the talk and distributing a PDF of it afterwards. I thought I’d put it up here so that those of you who missed it could see it, and perhaps benefit from it.

It’s a long talk: 1hr 40mins. I spliced it up into 3 parts, each a little over 30 minutes in length. They’re hosted out on Vimeo as part 1, 2 and 3. I’ve also embedded the first part down here for viewing. The video is available in HD, so be sure to maximize it to see the full quality of the slides (and my handsome face of course).

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