Principles of Web Design

The perfect starting place for print designers looking to move to the web.

Patrick McNeil, the author of the Web Designer’s Idea Book series and the content director of HOW Interactive Design, has been building websites for years and knows both the design side and the development side. In this workshop, the first in a series, you’ll learn web design fundamentals through videos, readings and links. This design course is for absolute beginners and will teach you the basics of the web and give you a technological understanding of how things work online.

Patrick McNeil, the creator of Design Meltdown, is the content director for HOW Interactive Design and the author of the Web Designer’s Idea Book series. He’s not only an HTML teacher, he can instruct in all the fundamental languages of the web—JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and more.

What Students Are Saying
“”I’ve always worked through the planning, info architecture and the UX of print projects with my clients, but I didn’t have this language or specific processes to refer to and utilize while ‘pretending’ to be a web designer. It’s so great to put all these same thought processes and exercises that have applied to print into a new perspective, with updated technology and endless possibilities. I’ve already utilized about 90% of what I’ve learned in the Week 3 lesson just in the last two days.” — Sally P.