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Learning tools
Here is the w3schools website I mentioned today. It’s a great resource for learning HTML, XHTML and CSS.
Also, for reading please go over Chapters 11-13 in “Learning Web Design”
Client/Project Brief Document
Here is a client/project brief I would like you to fill out for your redesign project and submit with your final copy on Tuesday. The client brief is a critical component to any project as it is used to spell out what you learn in the Discovery phase of a web communication project. You can [...]
Websites from Tuesday’s lecture
Below is a listing of the sites I shared in class on Tuesday, with some additions. One of the best is the Web Design from Scratch site. It’s an excellent resource for aspiring web communicators. It’s definitely a resource to use again and again.
Remember the one of the key points from our discussion on Tuesday [...]
Visual Design – Web 2.0 Design Style
With the advent of “Web 2.0” new design styles have emerged. Just as I showed with the case study on Tuesday (garyengbergoutdoors.com old and new), design styles are becoming more sophisticated. Ben Hunt from Web Design from Scratch shares his perspective with a Web 2.0 Style Guide and he outlines some basic principles to consider.
1/24 Lecture Notes & Homework
As mentioned in class, you homework is to begin sketching a redesign for this webpage. Use the discovery questions from today’s lecture as a starting point and then sketch away.
For reading, please read Don’t Make Me Think, chapters 1-3.
And for those of you interested in the Poynter Institute study, you can view a short video [...]
Usability and Emotional Design
Many in the web communication world feel there is a difference between usability and aesthetics. In fact, the “grandfather” web usability, Jakob Nielsen, PhD. often has promoted pure function as being the most important attribute of creating an user interface.
His partner, Don Norman, PhD. author of the Design of Everyday Things had been in this [...]
1/24 Lecture
For our second class, we’ll touch on the following topics:
a (very) brief history of the web
the web as an evolving communication tool (e.g., the way back machine, blogging, social networking, grape radio and more)
web teams (what roles are necessary for an effective web team?)
the core process for creating effective communications (the 4 Ds
and what we [...]
You are now all authors
I have set all of your permissions so you can log into the site. You can create, edit and delete your posts. Additionally, you will be able to upload files using the Wordpress upload feature. I’ll demo that for you on Thursday. Make sure to get the books and stay warm.
Let the Semester Begin
Welcome to Life Sciences Communication 532: Web Design for the Sciences. I am looking forward to an exciting semester. We are going to cover a lot of ground (and you’ll see there is much to cover). We will focus our energy on learning many concepts professional communicators in the web/new media industries need to know.We [...]
Who are you?
To practice using the blog, I would like you to add a comment to this post. Please introduce yourself. Tell us where you are from, what your major is, what your status/year in school is, what you hope to gain in this course this semester and what you hope to do for a career. And [...]