In Web design, speed is often of the essence: it's not enough to be good, you have to be fast as well. Within this edition of Web Pro Resource you'll find enough articles, tips, and presentations to get your sites growing like a weed - only a whole lot prettier and with better use of CSS.

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Planning Your Site

by Joseph Lowery

Planning in Web design, just as in any other design process, is essential. Not only does careful planning cut your development time considerably, but it makes it far easier to achieve a uniform look and feel for your Web site - making it friendlier and easier to use. This section briefly covers some of the basics of Web site design: what to focus on, what options to consider, and what pitfalls to avoid.

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Developing Rapid Prototypes
for Testing

by Lisa Lopuck

At some point in the design process, you have to put your work in front of a group of people that represent your target market for the ultimate litmus test: Can they figure out how to use it? And, do they like how it looks?

Adjusting Layout Styles Via Template Parameters

by Joseph Lowery

Template parameters can do much more than switch between style sheets. With careful planning and a sprinkling of template expressions, you can set up a template to toggle between two or more different layout styles, much like switching between screen media and print media types. The primary difference is that the switch between layout styles is under designer - not user or automatic - control.

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Optimizing Graphics

by Mark Fletcher

To provide the best online experience, Web graphics must be optimized to balance appearance and file size. Learn interactively how to optimize your images right from within Dreamweaver.

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Parallel color palettes
If your website has a few different color coded sections, like the WebAssist site, then you must create what I call parallel color palettes...

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Instant Graphical Satisfaction
Beyond its superb layout capabilities, Dreamweaver has the ability to crop, resample, alter the contrast, or sharpen your images all on its own.

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Admin Suite Solution Recipe

Learn how to use SiteAssist and DataAssist together to build a complete administrative site to manage your database tables online. This multimedia presentation covers the process from start to finish.

Rapid Site Prototyping with SiteAssist

Learn how one WebAssist customer uses SiteAssist as a rapid prototyping tool to reduce client indecision and ramp up productivity.

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