Updated January 1, 1999
The Design area is the MSDN Online Web Workshop's online resource for creative professionals, with information on Web technologies, tools, color management, typography, and Web design. These pages have been built using style sheets, optimized for Internet Explorer 4.0 and greater on the Windows Platform.
The Design and Layout section contains articles and references on pre-production, layout, and design, with discussions of tables, frames, style sheets, typography, and more. A few examples of useful articles in this section are East Meets Web: The Art of Virtual Feng Shui and On the Road to Good Web Design
How can you use color effectively on your Web site? Learn about the Safety Browser Palette, using named colors in Internet Explorer, and effective color management. Also find color information from Pantone.
Interviews with companies and creative leaders in the Internet design space, such as Jessica Helfand.
Do you need any colorful images, or stock art work? Are you looking for that perfect sound for your welcome page? Explore these rich image, downloads and tools, and creative resources. Also, Cooking with Liquid Motion: An Easy Recipe for Animation will help you reduce your animation production time.
Keep up to date with creative conferences and seminars, including SEYBOLD, AIGA, ACD, TED, and other upcoming industry events.
A compendium of helpful design-related links to articles, references, samples, and tools. Want to review the last 100 years? Browse through the 20th Century in Pictures from Corbis.