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Syllabus |
| Style Guides |
Creating
Killer Web Sites not only has some great technical tips but has
links
to examples Be sure to check out
Exit Tunnel. |
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Jakob
Nielsen's Website Be sure to see the Top
10 Mistakes. |
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Lynch
and Horton's Web Style Guide |
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Robin
Williams Good and Bad Web Design Features |
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Steve
Krug's chapter on How We Use the Web |
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Web Pages that
Suck |
Ideas |
Project
seven has
Web site templates for sale but they also have some good illustrations
of design and navigation, as well as CSS. |
| General Resources |
HTML
Goodies to Go has answers to just about everything for the novice
or experienced web designer. |
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HTML Tricks - easy and fun things to change in your website |
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Multimedia Authoring
Web is
a searchable site that has a ton of multimedia and Web-authoring
tips and links to many resources. Bookmark this site! |
| Assistive Tools |
See these Helpful Links |
| Checkers |
Browser
Compatibility Checker - enter a URL and see how well your page
works. Only works on published web pages. |
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Screen
Size Checker- See how your web page will look in different default
screen sizes. |
| Color |
Color
Scheme Tool is a resource not only to help you figure out a
good color schelem (think of text, links, active links, visited
links as well as page elements) but also shows you what the
color scheme will look like to people with various vision differences. |
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Color
Laboratory - a good place to get color codes. |
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Web Color Reference - This color reference aims to help you pick colors for Web pages. |
| DreamWeaver |
Beginner's
Tutorials |
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WebMonkey Resources - A lot or resoruces: tutorials, cheat sheets and other materials that are good for novices and intermediate folks as well. |
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Tips & Tricks from Macromedia for DW 4 and other Getting Started pages for other versions of DW. |
| FireWorks |
Beginner's
guide to Fireworks animations |
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Macromedia
Fireworks Tutorials |
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Short
tips on specific functions very visual! |
| Flash |
Flash
Tutorials with screen dumps. |
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Flash
Intro Builder - no need to know Flash, but there
is a one time fee. |
| Graphics |
Free
graphics and other useful Web development tools |
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Desktop
Publishing is
a comprehensive site that links to many
different types of resources, not just graphics. |
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Geek
Philosopher links to a lot of free resources |
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Gimp - Free downloadable software, some prefer over commercial software. |
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Mediabuilder. Make banners, find animated gifs an use the free font mapper. Also,
graphics, backgrounds, etc. |
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Morguefile - some free photos, great quality. |
| Metadata |
What is metatdata? |
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Metadata
Generator - Designed for commercial sites, this tool will help
your page be located by search engines. |
| Navigation |
Sample
Chapter: Interface
and Interaction Design from Web Navigation: Designing
the User Experience |
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Navigation |
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Web
Navigation Design Principles Part 1 and Part
2 |
