== A GALLERY AND SOME LINKS TO SITES FROM CLASS!! ==
———————————————————————————————————————————-
ADVANCED WEB DESIGN — the cultural empathy of advanced web design
— WORST WEB SITE IN THE WORLD ASSIGNMENT
— CASCADING STYLE SHEET TUTORIAL & ASSIGNMENT
———————————————-
creation of your own website:
please read the basic html document tutorial carefully
please read the w3school guide to html carelessly
links for website creation
- W3schools HTML tag reference
- W3schools CSS tag reference
- Simple tutorial on building pages from the W3C
- Guide to using the CSS float attribute and create column based layouts
- A List Apart – Tons of great tutorials and articles on HTML, CSS and web design in general
- web design library — beginners one-stop resource
design links
- Choosing a color pallette
- Basic design principles (contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity)
- Typograph
- open source web designs lots of sample layouts to choose from
- design meltdown nice collection of multitude of design strategies
- free icons
- designing for how human brains work
- 20 great web design books
- smashing magazine – mag dedicated to web world
making your pictures “web safe” in photoshop and using photoshop for design
- a step by step “save for web” tutorial
- a good philosophical analysis between the difference of “save as” and “save for web”
- making your pictures “webs safe” in photoshop
- using photoshop to design your site
tools
- TextWrangler – text editor for OS X
- JEdit – cross platform text editor
- Photoshop Express – free, web-based image editing
- Gimp – free, open source image editor
- TextMate – my favorite text editor
- Processing
word press resources
theme shaper – modifying wordpress css
John C – modifying the K2 theme
Dissection of a WordPress Theme and Pdf is here
Modify a WordPress Theme for Beginners
Installing WordPress on your Local Computer (MAC)
resources
Some sites with new media art:
Rhizome.org
Runme.org
www.we-make-money-not-art.com
networked_performance blog
worst web pages ever
web art