I would add to this accessibility. There are many texts (mostly online) available, but a good place to start is the W3C's WAI guidelines: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Robert Ulla Bunz wrote:
I think it is absolutely essential to teach some sort of usability understanding before or while teaching web design. A technically sophisticated site can still look like crappola, and a very basic site can look good and work well. Personally, I think especially in a communicaiton course that should be so, because we should think of usability as a new communication channel. ulla
From: aoir.z3z@danah.org Date: 2002/10/26 Sat PM 01:25:48 EDT To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Undergraduate HTML text
I guess it depends on the level and the amount of time, but i'd suggest (in a sorta technical level order):
Basic HTML concepts and then build through Dreamweaver Some combination of Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks/Freehand Flash PHP & MySQL
And possibly throwing in basic setup/design of Webblogs (i.e. MoveableType) and that movement (which is still new and interesting, always a motivation for students and can definitely get into the comm perspective).
Of course, this is just the technological section of it...
danah
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nicole Ellison wrote:
I'm looking for a good text to use in an undergraduate web production class (Comm Dept)-- something technically sound but accessible, preferably grounded in some solid design principles. Any suggestions? Has anyone used Weinman's creative html design.2?
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