What is Web Design?
When you visit a website, even this one, every aspect is designed to cater to you the viewer to instinctively know where to look and how to use it as well as be enjoyable. Web design is the process of imagining, designing, and laying out a website to fit a clear and concise message that will be appealing to the target audience of the product or service and provide an easy and involved customer experience while using the website. With the evolution of technology this can also include making websites with colors, layouts, fonts, and images that can be viewed on different devices such as phones, computers, and tablets.
Storyboard Notebook
A handy little notebook to start sketching out different webpage designs. It has sections for notes as well as web page layout pages to start to sketch out layouts.
Shutterstock
This article goes into detail with images about different Aspect Ratios and how they can effect what message you are trying to convey. It also discusses what aspect rations are most commonly used in different types of projects.
Design Gradients
This is a simple page that shows 48 linear gradients created by designers with color hex codes and visual representations of the color gradient itself.
w3schools (CSS RGB Colors)
This page helps go through rgba colors as well as an interactive tool near the bottom that allows you to move different sliders to create new colors and then provides you the numbers needed to code those colors in CSS.Hosted by w3school there is an incredible amount of other information you can find for coding through out this site as a whole.
Satori Graphics (YouTube)
Satori Graphics is a designer that specializes in Logo design but also has a large library of YouTube videos that can help aid in web design as a whole.