Digital Foundations: CSS and Web Design with Adobe Dreamweaver and WordPress is the third book in the Digital Foundations series. The collection of Digital Foundations books aims to rewrite media arts curriculum by fusing experiments from the Bauhaus Basic Course, formal design principles, movements in art history, and software training into one cohesive set of books. CSS and Web Design with Adobe Dreamweaver and WordPress teaches new students to web design how to approach code using Dreamweaver and through interfaces available online, such as WordPress. Each chapter is informed by significant works of art on the web from artists such as Cary Peppermint and the Yes Men to commercial successes such as Dave Shea's CSS Zen Garden. Whether a student is part of a formal classroom setting or learns informally from a book, all students of web design and production must learn the basic principles of design and how to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software for the trade and academic markets. The visual examples presented in most software books are unrelated to design principles or contemporary practices. Consequently, the software training exercise is a lost opportunity where, instead, visual principles could be taught by practice. Digital Foundations: CSS and Web Design with Adobe Dreamweaver and WordPress reinvigorates the software demo by integrating formal exercises common to the web design classroom and contemporary art examples into exercises that focus on core code and software methodologies.
Following are the few topics covered in this web design with adobe dreamweaver and wordpress book.
Following are the few topics covered in this web design with adobe dreamweaver and wordpress book.
- Introduction to the Web
- Metaphors for a Page
- Hello Dreamweaver
- Hello Wordpress
- Fair Use, Appropriation & Advertising Online
- Adding Action With Scripting Languages
- Images and the Web
- CSS 1
- CSS 2
- Layout
- Frameworks for making things easier
- Installing WordPress
- Basic Theming in WordPress
- Web 2.0, APIs and Platforms