Whether you are applying for an internship as a design student or for a full-time position as a professional designer, you will need a resume. Often times resumes are shared with prospective employers as pdf files (e.g. attached to an email) because they are easy to print and can serve as helpful physical resources during …
Showcase select projects by coding an online portfolio site from scratch There are many different ways to share your work online. If you are a web designer with front-end web development skills looking to showcase your talent, one of the best ways is to custom design and code your own portfolio site from scratch. In this …
Hands-on exercises to help understand different layout techniques Check out the codepen examples below, each with multiple ways to center content. Be sure to delete the css (or comment it out) line-by-line so you can fully understand the impact of each css property and value. Centering Horizontal Centering Note how it’s just one line of …
Are you my Type? Let’s find out… Quick Hands-on Google Docs Exercise Check out the two Google Docs examples below: one containing raw, unset type and the other stylized using Google Fonts. Using Google Docs, create your own type specimen test starting from (almost) scratch using the raw unset text. Take advantage of Google Doc’s …
Display your work by coding an online portfolio site from scratch There are many different ways to share your work online. If you are a web designer with front-end web development skills looking to showcase your talent, one of the best ways is to custom design and code your own portfolio site from scratch. See a …
A Quick Coding Exercise Try to solve the challenge below by doing the following: in the first code example below, click on the “edit in codepen” button in the upper right, then add the appropriate HTML tags to the source text so that it renders the same as the second code example below. Code Example …
