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A Web Design Crash Course: From one non-designer to another

Ali Spittel on August 20, 2018

I will preface this by saying that I'm not professionally a designer. That being said, I like building pretty things and have had some success with...
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Ben Halpern

I really needed the section on colors. This is really brilliant.

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malik

This is a really great post!! I always share the CRAP principles with new developers when getting started designing anything.

Thanks for making this guide, definitely gonna share

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Álex Fogaça

Being able to put on paper these things that affect your experience is really great! I always tend to doubt my intuition as "hmm.. it seems difficult to read, but I don't know anything about colors" :v

Thanks again!!

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Josh Yap

Ali, the last few things saved in my pocket app have been your content! Really appreciate all of your work as a budding developer overwhelmed by resources. Hope I can hear your talks in person someday and get to meet you.

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Ali Spittel

Thank you so much, that means a lot!!!

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Jeremy Schuurmans • Edited

Agreed. This is really great. The checklist is fantastic and I'll definitely be using it in the near future!

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Bit Wombat • Edited

I'm not seeing the text shadow in the example image... am I missing something?

Would be useful if all examples' outputs were the actual HTML/CSS instead of an image so I could check for myself and also change the parameters!

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Mykhailova Nataliya

Very great course. Choosing a type of website to develop remains.

Read an article about types of website and what idea you should enclose in them and you will choose yours weblium.com/blog/types-of-websites...

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Ali Spittel

Thanks! Good catch!

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Karl Taylor

I had no idea about word spacing! Thanks a lot

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Luis A. Ochoa R.

Such a great post. Thank you Ali!

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Quentin Sonrel

This is brilliant Ali, as always, thanks :)

I needed that kind of article, even though I don't suck at it, design is clearly not my strong suit.

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Romulo G Rodrigues

Whoa! This is an amazing extensive article. I loved it! :D

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Muhammad Farid Zia

Awesome, thanks 😀

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Ali Spittel

Good catch thanks! I originally had Fira Code then moved it over. Oops!

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Yaser Al-Najjar • Edited

Nice list... for the colors I love using this tool, makes it easier for me to pick colors fast: color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/

My favorite "styling" framework: bulma.io

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DeChamp

Great article!!! It was simple and to the point. Thank you.

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Kushal Niroula

Color is something I always seem to mess up. Thanks for the article. Nice write up!

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Julio Vieira • Edited

Thank you, this is awesome. I'm loving it!

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Roland Taylor

Clap, clap, clap.

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juankOrtiz

Colors allways seemed like a dificult thing to resolve. Great advices, thank you.

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rhymes

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this :-)

Very useful!

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Gergely Polonkai

That’s an awesome list, thanks for putting it together!

Also, change the double hashmark to an asterisk, and you have an Org checklist (for Emacs fans ;)