Chapter 12. WEB SITE CASE STUDY #1: BLOG

Fireworks is a powerful end-to-end web design tool. It is as useful for rapid prototyping and wireframing as it is for creation of vector art, logos, and pixel-perfect design detail and nuance. This example is going to walk through designing a blog site, a relatively simple and standard format on the modern Web. Over the last several years, blogs have developed some fairly solid formatting conventions, much like books, and thus make a good, simple design case. We will be designing a fictitious blog about pop culture, film, music, and industry gossip called PopDiary.com.

In our careers as web developers, in the freelancing, secondary education, and corporate sectors, we have encountered a wide variety ...

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