Teach Me the Web

Monday, Oct 12th, 2009

Using your sketchbook sketch some ideas for a personal portfolio website.  There are several things you should consider:

• Overall Message
• Color Scheme
• Logo
• Layout

There is no reason to use Ps or Fw today this is a brainstorming session.  Use any of these links to gather inspiration:

• http://patterntap.com/
• http://www.cssartillery.com/
• http://designshack.co.uk/
• http://ilovetypography.com/
• http://www.csselite.com/
• http://css-tricks.com/
• http://typedia.com/
• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

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Resources

• Color Links
  • Kuler: Adobe Labs has released an incredibly useful and well designed color palette creator that beats the rest.
  • Contrast checker: evalute contrast between type and background
  • Color Scheme Generator 2: My favorite color scheme generation tool for its control and variety of system generation.
  • Color Blender: A good, simple color utility, which exports to Illustrator and Photoshop
  • Colour Lovers: Color palette generation in a social setting
  • Color Palette Creator: Give it a base color, it will give you a color palette
  • The Man in Blue: Technicolor: Palette shown in context of a CSS layout
  • 4096Color Wheel: A different approach to a color wheel
  • Colr.org: Generate color systems from a photo or randomly
  • Color Mixers: A staple in color generation systems
• CPD Archive (See top of page on right) - Thank you Tobias!