Student Pages

Damon Lamb
Carolyn Laplante
Casey Desmet
Jim Corriveau
Ben Rubinstein
Sarah Barker
Lindsey Sanford
Mallorie Waltz
Timothy Smith
Lauren Chomiuk
Jena Donlin
Beth Tappon
Zach Garris
Brittany Braunlich
Jon Vereecke
Chris O'Hara
Ana Dragovic
Marie Hollenbeck

Week 1 Readings

Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

The Proposal for the Web
http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

“A Brief History of the Internet”
by Walt Howe
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

And if you are really into history ...
Histories of the Internet
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/

 "How Web Pages Work"
by Marshall Brain
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-page.htm

"The History of Html" (2005)
by Ross Shannon
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/starthere/historyofhtml.html

Week 2 Readings

 
“Writing for a Web Audience”
by Constance J. Petersen
http://www.smartisans.com/articles/web_writing.aspx

"10 Tips on Writing for the Living Web"
Mark Bernstein
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving/

NCTE Content Analysis Report (WIDE)

here (pdf)

Week 3 Readings

 

“HTML Standards Compliance - Why Bother ?”
by Alan Richmond
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Standards/

Week 6 Readings

Information Architecture: web design from scratch
http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/ia.cfm

Web Style Guide, Chapter 3: “Organizing Information”
http://www.webstyleguide.com/site/organize.html

Web Style Guide, Chapter 3: “Site Structure”
http://www.webstyleguide.com/site/structure.html

Good resource site on structure and related issues
http://www.d.umn.edu/is/support/Training/Online/webdesign/architecture.html

 

Week 7 Readings

Chapter 5: “Typography”
http://www.webstyleguide.com/type/index.html

Web Style Guide, Chapter 7: ”Graphics”
http://www.webstyleguide.com/graphics/index.html

Admiration for typography ...
http://mondaybynoon.com/2007/01/01/admiration-for-typography-on-the-web/

Digital Web Magazine (we will choose a few from here)
http://www.digital-web.com/topics/graphic_design/

“Graphic Greats: Text as Design”
by Wendy Peck
http://www.webreference.com/graphics/greats/3/

Week 8 Readings

O'Reilly, What is Web 2.0?
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Digital Web: Web 2.0 For Designers
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/

Web 2.0 and technical writers (from one of our own, Amy Diehl)
http://www.ieeepcs.org/newsletter/archive/may2006/pcsnews_may2006_web20.php

Week 9 Readings

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

What is Web Accessibility?
Trenton Moss
http://alistapart.com/articles/wiwa/

Digital Web Magazine: Accessibility from the Ground Up
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/accessibility_from_the_ground_up/

Web Accessibility at MSU
http://www.msu.edu/accessibility.html

 

Weeks 10 Readings

From Digital Web ... CSS 101 and 102
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/css_101/
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/css_102/

A List Apart: From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey
http://alistapart.com/stories/journey/

A List Apart: Practical Layout Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/

CSS Layout Techniques at Glish.com
http://www.glish.com/css/

The Layout Reservoir at Bluerobot.com
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/

MaxDesign Sample CSS Layouts
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/page_layouts/

CSSCreator--CSS Layout Generator
http://www.csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php

 

Week 11 Readings

TBD

Week 12 Readings

TBD

Week 13 Readings

TBD