Tutorials on Web Design

Using WordPress

Updated Oct. 13, 2008 (2 months, 3 weeks ago) in Web Design

New to WordPress? This tutorial will guide you through the basic steps of publishing with the WordPress 2.5 publishing platform. Learn how to post and mange your content, as well as upload media.

Using Free Web Designs

Updated May 27, 2008 (7 months, 2 weeks ago) in Web Design

Multimedia web sites often take the form of mini sites that don't utilize your publication's design templates. Coming up with fresh, professional-looking web designs for multimedia projects can be tedious and time-consuming. Fortunately, there are literally thousands of downloadable free web designs out there, ready to be customized and modified. In this tutorial, we point to some of the best resources for free web design templates, and also provide detailed instructions for modifying our own freely downloadable web design.

Soundslides

Updated Dec. 4, 2008 (1 month ago) in Web Design

Soundslides has become one of the industry standards in creating audio slideshows due to its simple interface, low cost and its devotion to journalistic storytelling.

HTML 101

Updated Nov. 19, 2008 (1 month, 2 weeks ago) in Web Design

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is simple document markup languaged used for creating Web pages and other information viewable in a Web browser.  This tutorial is a crash course in basic HTML - enough to get you up to speed and help you feel comfortable with general HTML syntax and structure.

Dreamweaver

Updated Sept. 13, 2007 (1 year, 3 months ago) in Web Design

Dreamweaver is a Web page design program that lets you type text and add media elements directly into a page, much as you would with a word processing program like Microsoft Word. Dreamweaver converts your text and graphical page design into the HTML code read by a Web browser.

Multimedia on a Website

Updated Feb. 14, 2008 (10 months, 3 weeks ago) in Web Design

This is where your skills come together - Web page creation skills, interview skills, audio and video editing skills, and storytelling skills all converge at this point. Inserting media into Web pages is a bit more difficult than creating plain old HTML with graphics, but if you've mastered the other tutorials in this site, you'll do fine.