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project 5 Bistro Site Organization project 7 Arts Council Website
o Exploring Site Structure
o Placing Static Foreground Images
o Organizing the Site Navigation
o Extracting Photoshop Assets
o Naming and Titling Documents
project 6 Digital Book Chapter project 8 Museum CSS Layout
o Preparing the Workspace
o Creating Layouts with Style Sheets
o Working with Semantic Markup
o Working with a Template
o Working with Special Characters o Using CSS to Control Content
o Creating Lists
o Attaching an External CSS File
Against The Clock’s The Professional Portfolio Series teaches Clear, easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions walk you
graphic design software tools and techniques entirely through every phase of each job, from creating a new file
within the framework of real-world projects; we introduce to saving the finished piece. Wherever logical, we also offer
and explain skills where they would naturally fall into a practical advice and tips about underlying concepts and
real project workflow. graphic design practices that will benefit students as they
The project-based approach in The Professional enter the job market.
Portfolio Series allows you to get in depth with the software The projects in this book reflect a range of different
beginning in Project 1 — you don’t have to read several types of design jobs, from designing a composite layout
chapters of introductory material before you can start to building a Web page with CSS. When you finish the
creating finished artwork. projects in this book (and the accompanying Portfolio
Our approach also prevents “topic tedium” — in Builder exercises), you will have a substantial body of work
other words, we don’t require you to read pages and pages that should impress any potential employer.
of information about text (for example); instead, we The eight projects are described briefly here; more
explain text tools and options as part of a larger project (in detail is provided in the full table of contents (beginning
this case, as part of a set of promotional ads). on Page viii).
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