Essentials
Syllabus (updated 10/24/08)[download]
Glossary of web terms Check it
Books required for this class
(for on campus-access with Safari Books Online)
- Learning Web Design
- Flash Visual QuickStart Guide
- Learning ActionScript 3.0
Safari Books Off-Campus Access
The Compleat 310 Booklist
(with links to Safari Books and Amazon, where appropriate)
Flash Resources
Links10 Commandments of Flash
Web Design Resources
The 10 usability heuristicsIdeologies of Web Design
Fitts' Law
What Would Wal-Mart Do?
UI Design
Class Materials
9/3/2008
- Assignments #1 & 2
9/8/2008
- User experience definition
- READ THIS ARTICLE! (please)
- Flash vs. Standards Pt. 1
- Flash vs. Standards Pt. 2
9/10/2008
- Usability vs Web art
- HTML basics
9/15/2008
- Project 1 description
- Final Project Description
- GIF or JPEG? and PNG vs GIF and - GIF vs JPEG vs PNG
- The very basics of making a web page
9/17/2008
- Lots of CSS sites
- even more CSS sites
9/22/2008
- raw, uncooked text
9/29/2008
- The Compleat Booklist
- Fantastic CSS tutorialz & info
10/1/2008
- Good reference on CSS shorthand
- Large Background Sites
- Creepy Clown Pic
10/6/2008
- Ch. 14 Quiz code
- Table XHTML
- An article you should definitely read
- Why web standards? (one man's opinion)
10/8/2008
- Code cleanliness checklist
- New & Improved 310 glossary
10/13/2008
- Clear links/anchors tutorial
- Rollover lists & selected states
- This whole site is good!
10/20/2008
- Creative Brief Template
- Magical List Nav Maker
10/27/2008
- Copy This!
10/29/2008
- Motion Tweening Tute
11/3/2008
- Frogger interface
- What's left to do
11/5/2008
- SWFObject Main Page
- Great article on floats
- Great article on positioning
- Great screencast on Z-index
11/10/2008
- dropdown menus site
11/12/2008
- 20 user interface design linx
- R U making these CSS mistakes? LOL!
11/17/2008
- Brent’s Relatives Gallery Source
- Another Gallery