Hi I will be teaching a new web design course (second year, successor course) at my university next spring, and I am looking for course material. The course is both practical (individual coding assignments and group projects, using PHP/mysql) and theoretical (how to detect and apply visual rhetorics on the web, namely in dynamically generated sites). I am excited about it. I have found and browsed Carolyn Handa's "Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World", which looks promising in its diversity and level. Does any of you have experience with this source book in class? Also, it is ten years old. Although the classics in there never go out of style, it could be nice to have some fresher ideas as well, and especially ones which really use the "digital world" as we know it today, and not from the turn of the century. Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated. For example, I have read Applen's new book "Writing for the Web", which is an attempt to combine the practical coding and the rhetorical implications of publishing on the web. I am not convinced of this combination in this book though, and I found many flaws in it. The Introduction and the first part of the Rhetorics chapter are ok, so I am using these parts in the first year course. Thank you very much, - Daniel Jung