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Well, you must be having zillions of questions in your mind, but
the one that bothers you most is probably "What the heck is IGN?".
Anyway, that was the first question I'd been asked when  was no more than
a single layer image in my PhotoShop. Well, IGN doesn't stand for anything (yet...
do you have any suggestions?),
webign is just short for web design (get it?) and webIGN just looks
cooler than webign. Phew! Now that we sorted out all the questions
you have let's get to funky stuff.
What is then? Well, it's rather difficult to say, because I
want to include many more things in it, gradually. But... it's pretty much
what it says it is, it's a web design guide. When I was trying to learn
more about web design, I tried finding a resource on the Net that gives
you all the needed information to start designing pages. But rather than
being able to find such a site I found a million or so pages that are nothing
more than a quickie-page design to be a companion to a design book. Well, I
was not very keen to fork out 50$ (computer literature IS expensive) for a
book, so I kept searching the Net and I also kept learning by looking at other people's
HTML source, I've read a good introduction to JavaScript... and I learned
how to use PhotoShop. That got me started and at some point I decided that I
knew enough to be able to help other people who are in the same situation I was
some time ago.
Oh, by the way... If you're still reading this, I guess it's time to
bookmark this page, I guess you will be coming back soon.
The site was not planned to become that big. Now it has resources page, tricks page, software reviews, web tutorial, articles and so on. At the very moment I decided to finally publish the site, design sorted out and everything ready, I realised that it won't be enough. So I changed design a bit, to incorporate future additions. Some things are not here yet, for example JavaScript tutorial or a large part of HTML tutorials. But most planned articles and tutorials will appear in the mid/late January 98 and there are already additions planned. So enjoy it and remember that there is a whole lot more to come.
I'll try my best to make this place nice, cosy, friendly,
informal and ugh, basically cool (now, if you've been reading any web
style guides, you must know that saying "cool" is a big no-no, so why
did I use it?) But "niceness" is not worth a penny if there is no
real information behind it. But I believe, you won't be disappointed
by the information you're getting.
So, I hope you enjoy your time at and I'll see you around ;).
The tutorial is the main and biggest part of . So big and imporatant
it is, it has it's own interface and it's preferable if you bookmark it's
index page too, so you can jump right into it. The "Tutorial" is an unfortunate
name, because only a part of it is actually a tutorial. It would be better to
call it "The Web Book" or something, but I didn't want you to think of it as
a book. Net has many advantages over a printed material, one of which being that
it's more interactive. Never mind, we are getting into rhetorics here. Web Tutorial is being re-organised right now and more sections have been added and more information is now available. Start looking at it, you would probably want to return there later on.
Here is what you will find in tutorial:
- Introduction to HTML (Beginner's guide) with glossary [available now]
- Intermediate HTML [available Jan 98]
- Advanced HTML/HTTP topics [available Jan 98]
- Practical guide to HTML [available now]
- Style guide to creating good pages [available now, extensions avail Jan 98]
- Designer's tools [available now]
- Introduction to CGI [available now]
- How to promote your page? [available now]
- Future technologies [available now]
Well, I guess that will be enough to get you going ;). The tutorial
divided into several parts and can be read by a complete beginner (you
still have to know how to switch your computer on, though) but also can
be useful to a more advanced designer.
This part of is most useful if you're an intermediate designer.
You might now JavaScript or HTML fairly well, but sometimes it is just hard to use your skills in practice. Or you might be missing some valuable piece of information. Whatever your problems are, you might find a solution here.
The kind of things you will find there:
- Creating image maps
- Adjusting JavaScript documents
- Checking JavaScript version
- Checking browser version
- Changing images on-fly (menu highlight effects)
- Adjusting space
- Writing to status window
- ...and more
The tricks are constanly being posted to the section, so come and check it from time to time.
And, of course, if you
have a good trick, share it with others by posting it to .
Well, even though it says "webIGN: The ultimate guide to web design" at the
very top of the page, it is not entirely true (but I wish it was). There
are things is not good at (yet). These are JavaScript, Java, CGI,
Layers and maybe others. But we still have a good Links selection that can point
you towards missing information. Also it might be a good idea to read about the
same things from a different source if you're having difficulties with understanding
this or that aspect of web design. Oh, and we plan to extend this
resource guide to books and periodicals. So, yes, do take a look.
This page was created by repfect Drug, and this section tells you more about
 and also tells you how to contact if you want us to design a page for
you. This is also the home of the  page, which basically is a page with
strange banners, [supposedly] funny captions and futuristic prose. Send me an e-mail if you think that
is rubbish.
Well, that's basically it. Now you know everything you needed to know (I hope
you weren't afraid to ask) about ... just decide where you want to
go now (heck, I keep on running into shady area of copyright and trademark
infringements). And happy web designing.
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