Lecture Notes
Sites from 03/11
By the end of this week, you should have your interface design concepts nailed down and in electronic form so you can begin working on the XHTML/CSS and content. To help those of you who need some inspiration, here are two sites to Review for design:
Web 2.o style from Web Design from Scratch
Grunge Style Article [...]
Today’s Class
Now that the client project is rolling, today we talked about the benefits and drawbacks of using CSS template sites such as Code Sucks and Free CSS Templates.
By the end of class, your team and nterface designer should have several interface designs sketched out so your XHTML/CSS team can start preparing the webpage layouts. Make [...]
Websites from February 26th
Here are a listing of the sites I showed today demonstrating CSS galleries and techniques.
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/
http://cssbeauty.com/
http://cssvault.com/gallery/
http://www.webdesignerwall.com
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”
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 [...]
Eastbay Interface for Redesigning
I apologize. I had this image in a not-so-easy to find spot on the blog (bad information architecture, right? And thanks for pointing that out Noel). Click on the image for a larger version of the interface that you can print. It’s a little fuzzy, but it will work for our purposes.
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 [...]