http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Academic/Web-Design A listing of the most recently indexed works about Academic and Web Design in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Academic/Web-Design http://tc.eserver.org/35629.html http://tc.eserver.org/35629.html On the web, write in small digestible chucks, which fit into the information hierarchy. To create your hierarchy, outline the website as you would for printed material. Then examine the site’s purpose and outline the main sections (e.g. words people use to navigate) and the links within those heads. Test it before it goes online. http://tc.eserver.org/34529.html http://tc.eserver.org/34529.html A graduate seminar in the theory and practice of structuring and designing information for web-enabled devices. This course emphasizes web standards, accessibility, and rapid prototyping. http://tc.eserver.org/34368.html http://tc.eserver.org/34368.html The web, with its low barrier to entry and permeable social boundaries, is the ultimate medium through which to explore the finer points of the wisdom of crowds. You’re surrounded by online examples: Google’s search results. BitTorrent. The “Most E-mailed” stories on your favorite news site. Each is powered by wisdom gleaned from crowds online. You need a few things to enable online crowds to be wise. http://tc.eserver.org/33265.html http://tc.eserver.org/33265.html Many university websites are poorly organized, and filled with out-of-date content that has been directly published from print. Delivering a better service to students and staff faces challenges because of decentralized management structures and concepts such as academic freedom. http://tc.eserver.org/32336.html http://tc.eserver.org/32336.html The paper explores the interrelation and differences between the concepts of occupational community, community of practice, online community and social network. It uses as a case study illustration the domain of UK university web site production and specifically a listserv for those involved in it. Different latent occupational communities are explored, and the potential for the listserv to help realize these as an active sense of community is considered. The listserv is not (for most participants) a tight knit community of practice, indeed it fails many criteria for an online community. It is perhaps best conceived as a loose knit network of practice, valued for information, implicit support and for the maintenance of weak ties. Through the analysis the case for using strict definitions of the theoretical concepts is made. http://tc.eserver.org/32279.html http://tc.eserver.org/32279.html Longitudinal studies of web change are needed to assess the stability of webometric statistics and this paper forms part of an on-going longitudinal study of three national academic web spaces. It examines the relationship between university inlinks and research productivity over time and identifies reasons for individual universities experiencing significant increases and decreases in inlinks over the last six years. The findings also indicate that between 66 and 70% of outlinks remain the same year on year for all three academic web spaces, although this stability conceals large individual differences. Moreover, there is evidence of a level of stability over time for university site inlinks when measured against research productivity. Surprisingly, however, inlink counts can vary significantly from year to year for individual universities, for reasons unrelated to research which undermines their use in webometrics studies. http://tc.eserver.org/31972.html http://tc.eserver.org/31972.html PHP is a high level, dynamic, interpreted scripting language. It augments raw HTML by allowing significant interactivity and increased functionality. It has become popular in recent years as it is easy to begin working with and supported by a good majority of web hosting companies. http://tc.eserver.org/31971.html http://tc.eserver.org/31971.html Web Design is an incredibly fun skill to learn - combining the latest toys of technology with the creativity of design! On top of that, learning web design is unique in that we can learn directly from current professionals who publish their techniques for all to read on their own Web-logs! http://tc.eserver.org/31952.html http://tc.eserver.org/31952.html Good evening — in this article I will aim to demystify the world of mobile web development, or in other words, developing web sites so that they will provide an acceptable user experience on mobile devices. I’ll run through how “the mobile web” differs from the normal web, the basics of techniques you can employ. http://tc.eserver.org/31818.html http://tc.eserver.org/31818.html The purpose of this course is to introduce you to several new writing genres that are based on "Web 2.0" technology, which include mostly database-driven websites such as blogs, wikis, and virtual environments. These sites are designed to facilitate collaboration and discussion, rather than the one-to-many model of the typical website in which readers do not participate beyond reading or viewing material. Although many of these technologies are used for entertainment, they are also finding their way into professional settings. For instance, a game such as Second Life might be adapted for use in the workplace, allowing employees at distant locations to occupy the same virtual space and model behaviors or objects that would be impractical in physical space. http://tc.eserver.org/30792.html http://tc.eserver.org/30792.html This course will provide an introductory level approach to professional web authoring. It is ideal for folks with little to no background in CSS, XHTML, Photoshop, iMovie, PHP, Database, TCP/Server experience, and other essential web authoring technologies. We will approach these technologies from both a production and a publication perspective. http://tc.eserver.org/29949.html http://tc.eserver.org/29949.html This web tutorial is designed for students making their first web pages. No previous experience writing HTML is expected. This tutorial will introduce you to the basic concepts of HTML code and will guide you through the creation of several practice web pages. Using this tutorial you will learn the skills you need to start making your own web sites. http://tc.eserver.org/26547.html http://tc.eserver.org/26547.html This class focuses on effective writing and design for online environments--with particular emphasis on the Web. While grounded in relevant theory, this course has a workshop format, with an emphasis on hands-on, collaborative learning. http://tc.eserver.org/25563.html http://tc.eserver.org/25563.html This course is designed with several goals in mind: to analyze web sites & understand effective web design principles; to understand information architecture & its importance in relation to web sites; and to use those principles to design web sites—one of your choosing & one for a client. http://tc.eserver.org/25578.html http://tc.eserver.org/25578.html This is a course about writing and the World Wide Web in at least two different and related ways. First, we will be reading, 'browsing,' and writing about the World Wide Web in order to understand how the web works rhetorically. Second, we will be creating web sites that are good examples of effective web sites. http://tc.eserver.org/21972.html http://tc.eserver.org/21972.html The course provides a Humanities perspective on web design. It introduces students to basic issues and practices of web design, but also examines how web pages can be seen as texts that are amenable to rhetorical and cultural analysis.  Web sites embody 'architectures', which as MIT professor of architecture William Mitchell notes, raise many of the same issues of access, assembly, use, control, and community formation that occur with urban planning.  We will thus not only practice designing web pages, but we will also consider methods for interpreting and analyzing web sites. http://tc.eserver.org/21876.html http://tc.eserver.org/21876.html Teaches how to apply the principles of information architecture to the creation of intuitive navigation systems and a seamless user experience. http://tc.eserver.org/20918.html http://tc.eserver.org/20918.html The goal of this course is to foster a sophisticated understanding of rhetorical situation, style and arrangement. Writing for the electronic medium with its specific demands should reveal by contrast material aspects of the practice of conventionalwriting that may have been taken for granted. Technologies encourage certain kinds of thinking and behavior and discourage others. Writing has always been one such technology. The World Wide Web is not the introduction of, but a shift in, technology. Students will analyze, conceptualize and create websites with HTML and graphics without the use of WYSIWYG helpers. WYSIWYG programs can make website development easy; however, we will stay close to the actual code in order to get a better understanding of the medium. http://tc.eserver.org/20378.html http://tc.eserver.org/20378.html These are links to all the resources that appeared on the handout (except for this site, of course). http://tc.eserver.org/20376.html http://tc.eserver.org/20376.html This course will help you understand the process for developing the architecture and writing the content for informational websites. Proceeding from a rhetorical standpoint that emphasizes audience, purpose, and context, you will investigate and apply recent audience research, proven usability principles, and traditional design guidelines to critique as well as to design effective websites. http://tc.eserver.org/20347.html http://tc.eserver.org/20347.html Teaches how to apply the principles of information architecture to the creation of intuitive navigation systems and a seamless user experience. http://tc.eserver.org/20281.html http://tc.eserver.org/20281.html As a student in this course you will have the opportunity to learn to write for the World Wide Web and use appropriate hardware and software. http://tc.eserver.org/20062.html http://tc.eserver.org/20062.html This course is designed for web content developers to learn about the disability access issues faced by people with disabilities in using the web and how web resources can be designed to improve accessibility. The course provides a foundation on how people with disabilities access information on the web using mainstream browsers and specialized assistive technologies like speech renderings. Participants will learn about the two main standards for web accessibility, the W3C Web Content Accessibility Standards and the Section 508 requirements for web materials. The strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation and repair tools will be presented to help participants understand how to use the available tools to evaluate and repair their web resources. Participants will learn about common HTML accessibility problems, and HTML and CSS techniques that can be used to improve accessibility. Captioning of multimedia materials is also covered for Microsoft Media Player, Real Player and Quicktime, and the accessibility of non-W3C technologies like PDF and Flash will also be discussed. http://tc.eserver.org/19710.html http://tc.eserver.org/19710.html Through course readings, class discussion, and web projects, you'll learn to apply rhetorical principles of audience analysis, invention, organization, style, and design to hypermedia authoring; to use hypertext markup language as a presentation tool for publishing on the World Wide Web; to plan and manage web projects; to develop independent learning and problem-solving skills. http://tc.eserver.org/15042.html http://tc.eserver.org/15042.html Course goals: to analyze specific audiences and rhetorical situations in the design of large-scale Web sites; to apply the principles of information architecture to the creation of intuitive navigation systems and a seamless user experience; to learn how hypertext markup language (HTML) renders Web pages and supports the use of graphics, video, and other media; and to learn the basics of visual design and production as they relate to Web photographs and graphic images. http://tc.eserver.org/14968.html http://tc.eserver.org/14968.html This class provides experience in planning and constructing webpages. Discusses historical, ethical, and social implications of the Internet and digital culture. Students will develop a balance of technical and aesthetic knowledge and an understanding of some of the the problems and limitations of the Internet and the World Wide Web. http://tc.eserver.org/14841.html http://tc.eserver.org/14841.html TC 437 is a project-oriented course in website design. Implementation is not emphasized. Students receive a grounding in rhetoric, hypertext theory, user interface design, graphic design, and project management as these apply to the Web. Students also study the societal and ethical contexts of the Web and Internet. http://tc.eserver.org/14569.html http://tc.eserver.org/14569.html This course will prepare students to: * identify and discuss principles of design and information architecture that apply to web pages and web sites * evaluate the design and architecture of existing web sites and recommend appropriate revisions * design different types of pages and sites * test the usability of pages and sites * use appropriate software to implement effective and ethical decisions regarding the design and architecture of sites http://tc.eserver.org/14276.html http://tc.eserver.org/14276.html The Web is still so new that there is very little consensus about what an organizational Web page should be and what purpose(s) it should serve. You will start this exercise by examining some organizational Web sites (preferably organizations in your field). You will develop criteria by which to judge organizational sites, and then use those criteria to evaluate a single Web site, with the site’s creator as your audience. Your criteria will doubtless include elements like the elegance of the design and should certainly include the navigational system and other Web page practicalities. They should also include the fundamentals that are important in all technical documents: suitability to purpose(s) and audience(s), content, organization, and tone. http://tc.eserver.org/14275.html http://tc.eserver.org/14275.html Many business people and scholars see computer-mediated communications as the inevitable future of business and technical communication. Certainly we are seeing meteoric growth on the Internet. Increasingly, companies are relying on computer-mediated communication for external and internal communication, and Web page design and construction are becoming more and more a part of what professionals do on the job. For this exercise, you will be working with a team to develop an organizational Web site.