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How to create a website to showcase your graphic design work with Adobe Portfolio

There are numerous CMSs that are perfect for portfolio websites. Each platform offers different features and services. Most platforms charge a subscription fee. You should research the positives and negatives of potential platforms as they relate to you. Adobe Portfolio is a good option as it is simple to use and is also provided free […]

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Using the CSS display property: Block, inline and inline-block

All HTML elements are rectangular boxes rendered in the browser viewport. The HTML flow is linear and runs vertically from top to bottom. HTML element has a display property value by default. The display property stipulates how an element’s box behaves. The two most common values for display are block and inline. Block Container elements […]

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Image links, social media icons, and floating elements

This series of videos starts to look at some of the content and presentation details of a web page. We use images to link to other pages and use the float property to bring content inline horizontally. For image links we essentially embed an image inside an anchor tag. Image link code example: The float […]

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Combining DIV elements, ID’s and, background images to enhance your design

In this series of videos, I build out a simple email or web page for a fictional record label. I leverage DIV elements to structure the content. DIVs are like a blank HTML slate. They’re an empty holder for content, which makes them very useful. They are great for layout structures and grouping content together. […]

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Starting out with CSS: Selectors, properties and values

“CSS allows you to create rules that specify how the content of an element should appear. For example, you can specify that the background of the page is cream, all paragraphs should appear in gray using the Arial typeface, or that all level one headings should be in a blue, italic, Times typeface.Once you have […]