Handouts

• Design Baseline
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Web Design Freeware

• PSPad - recommended freeware HTML editor
• GIMP - free graphics program
• Nvu - free WYSIWYG system
• Big List of HTML and Other Editor Programs
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Web Design Resources

• Dave Raggett's HTML tutorial
• Bizntech Design Resources
• W3 Schools
• Web Style Guide
• A List Apart - good advice "for people who make websites"
• CSS Reboot Spring 2006 - good for some design ideas
• Max Design - more good design advice
• The Noodle Incident - ditto
• 456 Berea St CSS and XHTML Lab
• Pixel Acres
• Silverorange Labs - interesting stuff; worth a browse-through
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CSS Resources

• CSSplay = excellent demos and styling ideas
• CSS Layout Tutorial
• Curing Float Drops and Wraps
• Customizing Links
• Eric Meyer's CSS/Edge
• CSS Zen Garden
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Fonts & Web Typography

• Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents
• Font Tester
• Typetester
• A Practical Guide to Web Typography
• Compose to a Vertical Rhtyhm
• sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
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In-Class Demos

• Using Images
• Image Swap Demo
• Text Swap Demo
• Links Tab Demo
• Timeline Demo
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Research & Writing Resources

• Bizntech Research Resources
• Writing Instructions for a Tutorial Page
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Sample 425 Projects

• Wicked Women
• Women of the Arts
• Surf Culture
• The Scientific Marine Acquarium
• Death & Life of a Fictional CharacterO
• Western Riding & the American Rodeo
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Other sample web pages, links, etc.

• Ben Fry's fancy site - see in particular his thesis page
• Sample feature page - from Mappa Mundi Magazine
• Sample further reading page
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~Jonathan Bass