Supplementary Readings
In addition to the course textbooks, you will be reading a number of articles about Web site design on the Web itself, in Portable Document Format (PDF), and in PowerPoint format.
To view PDF documents, you must download them to a computer on which the Adobe Acrobat Reader has been installed. If you do not have the Acrobat Reader, you can download one from the Adobe site. Once you download PDF documents, you can then either read them on screen or print them like you would any other computer file.
- Davis, B. (1998). An interview with Richard Saul Wurman: Our role as technologists. Design Matters.
- Hill, S. (2000, April 29). Interview with Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville. Intranet Design Magazine.
- Morkes, J., & Nielson, J. (1998). Apply writing guidelines to web pages.
- Nielson, J. (1996). Inverted pyramids in cyberspace.
- Nielson, J. (1997a). Be succinct! (Writing for the Web).
- Nielson, J. (1997b). How users read on the Web.
- Rosenfeld, L., and Morville, P. (1999) Organizing information. Information architecture for the World Wide Web (pp. 22-46). Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly. (PDF file).
- Theofanos, M. & J. Redish. (2003). Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work with Screen Readers. (PDF File)
Lecture Downloads
PowerPoint files generally consist of lecture presentations and can be viewed using the PowerPoint program from Microsoft Office. If you don't own a copy of Office, you can still view the files by downloading a free PowerPoint Viewer for either Windows or Macintosh. If you have any problems downloading either the viewer or the files, please let me know.
- Honeycutt, L. Linking within a Site. Tutorial, Week 2.
- Honeycutt, L. Web Site Design with Cascading Style Sheets. Lecture, Week 2.
- Honeycutt, L. Layout with CSS. Tutorial, Week 3.
- Honeycutt, L. Rhetoric and the Web. Lecture, Week 4.
- Honeycutt, L. Information Architecture and the Web. Lecture, Week 5.
- Minear, M. Bridging the Gap: Accessible Web Page Design. Lecture, Week 7.
- Honeycutt, L. Javascript. Lecture, Week 10.
- Honeycutt, L. PHP and XML: A Primer for Web Design Students. Lecture, Week 15.