ENGL 391C: advanced software for professional writing
spring 2011

course resources

Table of Resources

HTML
CSS
Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Web Design
Flash
DHTML
XML
JavaScript
Digital Copyright--Creative Commons
History of the Web and Web Standards
Glossaries
Magazines and Topics on Digitality


Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Library of Congress' Categorical Glossary of HTML Tags

HTML: An Interactive Tutorial

The Barebones Guide to HTML

A Beginner's Guide to HTML from W3C

Webmonkey: HTML Cheat Sheet

HTML/CSS Dog

Redesigning Your Resume with Semantic Markup

HTML Hex Color Chart

Pesonal Websites at UMass

Validate your XHTML


FTP Clients

Windows

Mac


Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets--W3C

DW Developer Center--CSS (Adobe)

Understanding Cascading Style Sheets (Adobe)--Jon Michael Varese

CSS Page Layout Basics--Jon Michael Varese

Positioning Rules for CSS

About CSS Style Sheets

CSS Properties Index


Adobe Dreamweaver

What is Dreamweaver?

Learning DW CS4
This is a useful set of video tutorials that explain how to do specific tasks in DW.

Dreamweaver Support and Help
This is your first stop for any questions you may have about using web design and DW. You'll find useful videos, tutorials and helpful community discussion boards.

Defining a site in Dreamweaver CS4

Defining a site in Dreamweaver CS5

Introducing Site Management

Understanding Link Paths


Adobe Photoshop

Photoshopsuppot.com

Good-Tutorials.com

The CS4 Photoshop Bible
You will need your UMass id and pw to access this book

Photoshop CS4: Essential Skills

Advanced Photoshop CS3: Trickery and FX

Deke McClelland
Check out the site of a well known Photoshop expert and teacher Deke McClelland-- theTop 40
Photoshop videos are very helpful. Pay attention to his rhetorical delivery of knowledge.

You Suck At Photoshop
Follow Donnie and learn some new skills as he uses PS to explore the deeper meaning of life and relationships. For mature audiences--some explicit language and adult situations.

Keyboard Shorcuts for Photoshop

Photo Shop Tool Glossary
A useful list of tools and what they do from simplephotoshop.com

Exploring the Toolbox

ColorMatch
This site has several articles and tools for thinking and working with color.

Photoshop Lady
Design tutorials for creating visually stunning fx in PS, as well as background textures and text.

Planet Photoshop

Blending Modes in Layers
Useful site for PS video tutorials

 


Web Design

Web Page Design for Designers

The Yale Web Style Manual

Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles

Adobe - Site of the Day: Archive

ColorMatch 5K
This site will help you select a matching six-color palette for your website. Define a single color that you like, and matching colors will be calculated. (It works best when viewed in Internet Explorer.)

Color Scheme Generator
Use this application to find a colors that work well together.

Hex Color Code Generator

Web Design Glossary

Wed Design Time Breakdown

A List Apart
A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

CSS Navigation

Creating Buttons in PS

Creating a Portfolio Web Site

Websites That Suck

The Best Designs

Digital Web Magazine

Listamatic!

The Oatmeal: How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell

Veer!: A site with both free and purchasable high quality images and fonts

Web Safe Font-Families


Adobe Flash

Flash Tools Defined

EchoEcho.Com Flash Tutorial

FlashLearner.com

Adobe Flash--Developer's Connection

Websitetips.com

Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers


Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML)

Dynamic Drive: DHTML Code Library
The Dynamic Duo - Cross-Browser DHTML


Extensible Markup Language (XML)

XML - Questions & Answers
The SGML/XML Web Page


JavaScript

Applet Resources
JAVA Goodies
HotSyte - The JavaScript Resource
The JavaScript Source


Internet Copyright Issues

US Patent and Trademark Office Report fo the Commissioner on Fair Use
The Copyright Website
Creative Commons


History of the World Wide Web and Web Standards

World Wide Web Consortium
The Official TECHWR-L
Triumph of the Nerds!
The Web Standards Project


Internet Glossaries

Glossary of Internet terms


Topics on Digitality


"Growing up Online" (Frontline documentary)
"Digital Nation" (Frontline documentary)
Wired Magazine
Technology Review
Opensource.org
"An Adobe Flash Developer on Why the IPad Can't Use Flash" Check out the video at the end
"Apples Problem with Flash is Mobile Applications Competition"
"Steve Jobs on Adobe and Google"
The Wasteland--60 Minutes segment on the growing problem of ewaste.
47 Mind Blowing Facts
about how you read online
Literacy Debate: Online, RU Really Reading?