This week we will begin talking about designing for Content Management Systems. Our guest speaker this week is John Berndt the founder and principle strategist of The Berndt Group. John is a senior strategic analyst with experience in large-scale content management implementations, information architecture, usability, and customer analytics.
Reading assignment
Please read this Smashing Magazine – Designing for Content Management Systems article and this series of articles.
In preparation for beginning to design to a CMS please be sure to read these articles on Web Typography
- CSS Typography: The Basics
- CSS Typography: Techniques and Best Practices
- Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques
- On web typography
- More meaningful typography
Markup assignment due Oct 11
Add a well thought out typography layer to your grid framework. You can use font embedding via any font embedding service.