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For Our Students

Below is a list of links gathered primarily from about.com. The list comprises links that would be of interest to PDM students.

Design Basics
Learn about the design basics balance, consistency, contrast and white space. Put these design principles to work in your own designs.

Balance
Learn about balance, the different types of balance, and how to achieve it.

Consistency
Consistency helps your viewers feel at home. Find out ways to bring consistency to your designs.

Contrast
What contrast is, and ways to apply it to your designs.

White Space
Discover how to give your designs some breathing room with white space.

Design Tips
Real world tips and tricks on advertising, brochure, general, logo, and newsletter design.

Advertising Design
Learn how to design eye catching ads.

Annual Reports
Information on what makes a good annual report and what sort of content should go into an annual report.

Book Design
Design and productions tips for book design.

Brochure Design
Get design tips, information about printing brochures, and information on paper folds here.

Creativity
What can you do when design ideas aren't flowing?

General Graphic Design
Here's where to look when you want to find out about layout, graphic design "rules", and samples of design.

Information Design
Information design tries to visually display information in a way that is useful to the viewer.

Logo Design
Tips and strategies for designing logos, some examples, corporate identity manuals, and how to gather information before designing the logo.

Newsletter Design
What to do and avoid when designing newsletters.

Web Design Tips
Javascript, banners, cascading style sheets, dynamic HTML, HTML editors, color, rollovers, page layout, splash pages, and more.

Banners
From designing banners to what generates click-throughs.

Colour
How to get consistent colour on the Web, and downloadable Web safety palettes.

HTML
Links to HTML editors, accessible Web design, HTML tags, page layout tips, dynamic HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets.

Javascript
Online (and free!) tutorials for learning Javascript.

Splash Pages
Both positive and negative opinions of splash pages, and tips for designing them.

Web Design
The do's and don'ts of Web design.

Web Fonts
Which fonts look good on the Web and how you can add fonts to your Web pages, as well as where to find them.

Web Graphics
Information on GIFs, JPGs, and PNGs. Some tips on creating Web graphics and rollovers.

Web Software
The software you'll need for creating animations, working with graphics, using colors and templates to get you started quickly.

Typography
Get typographic terms defined; learn how to use type properly; learn about the history of typography.

History
The history of type and type designers.

Terms
Typographic terms and definitions; type glossaries; and illustrated definitions of type terms.

Working with Type
Learn how to set type properly and choose fonts.

Learn More About the Applications That You Use
Visit sites created to support QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver and others.

Adobe Acrobat
Websites to visit to learn more about Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Illustrator
Online (and free!) tutorials to help you master Adobe Illustrator.

Adobe Photoshop
Online (and free!) tutorials to help you master Adobe Photoshop.

Macromedia Director
General tips, tricks and tutorials for working with Macromedia Director.

Macromedia Dreamweaver
Tips, tricks and tutorials for using Dreamweaver by Macromedia.

QuarkXPress 4.0
Tips and tricks for Quark 4.x on the Macintosh and Windows.

Logo Design
Check out:
Designing Logos for Web and Print by Wanda Cummings

The Art of Logo by Dmitry Kirsanov

QuarkXPress Easter Eggs
Check out:
The Xpresso Bar

Web Page Design
Check out:
Vincent Flaunder's Web Pages that Suck

Web Design Tips

HTML
Check out:
HTML Tips and Tricks

BigNoseBird.com's free HTML tips and tricks

WebMonkey's online tutorials