Welcome to part 2 of the series! Before starting this tutorial, please complete “Designing a Professional Website from Scratch – Part 1”.

For the sake of brevity, I’m not going to go over slicing images. You may download my sliced images in order to follow along, but please note that I am not including the social networking icons or the photo. I don’t believe that I have the right to redistribute these. I included the link the photo in the last article, and you can download the social networking icons from the original creator.

Also, remember to download the 960 Grid CSS Framework. This will give us a big step in the right direction.

With that out of the way, we’re ready to begin.

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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about MVC frameworks. To be honest, I come from a design background. I tend to look at programming from a view that benefits designers. I know that a lot of programmers are not 100% concerned with how clean their generated code is, as long as the back-end code is clean and the program produces predictable results. With that said, I’ll try to be fair about this. More...