Basic Instructions for NKU students

• Descriptions of programs you'll need to build a webpage (revising)
• Dreamweaver Tutorials (see below)
  • Creating graphic buttons in Fireworks and Photoshop
  • Creating rollovers and navigation bars
• Defining a site and creating a basic webpage using Dreamweaver
  • html
  • pdf
• Earlier web handouts
  • Creating a personal webpage on www.studenthome.edu (Composer)
  • Creating a personal webpage on www.nku.edu (html) 
  • Using WS_FTP
  • Displaying graphics on your webpage/Using WS_FTP 
• Using UNIX on www.nku.edu 

Software Tutorials

• Dreamweaver
  • Macromedia Tutorials
  • Dreamweaver Webauthoring instructions
  • Dreamweaver Primer, Julie Stanford
  • Tips for Working in Dreamweaver MX, Kate Agena, Purdue
  • Image Tricks That Make You Look Good
  • Video tutorials on using Dreamweaver MX
  • Macromedia Fundamentals Course (several tutorials are freely viewable)
  • Medialab
    • Dreamweaver Tutorials
    • Fireworks Tutorials
    • Flash Tutorials
• Photoshop
  • Planet Photoshop

HTML guides

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML 
• HTML- the complete guide 
• W3C Guidelines
• The HTML Station
• HTML Standards
  • World Wide Web Consortium 
  • HTML /Web Writing Standards 
  • Web Style Sheet 
  • HTML Help 
  • Human-Computer Studies--Special Issue on Web Usability 
  • cgi sites

Website Design

• Clipart, Bullets, Bars, Backgrounds
  • Boogie Jack's Web Depot
  • Realm Graphics
  • Graphics from Edtech
  • AAA-buttons.com
  • Hula Mall 
  • Background Sampler 
  • Left/Right Hand Vertical Stripes 
  • freebackgrounds.com
• Icons and Clipart
  • Media Links Free Graphics 
  • Barry's Clip Art 
  • Laura McCanna's Free Clip Art 
  • Icon Bazaar 
  • Clipart Searcher
• Colors
  • HTML Hex Color Codes 
  • Palette Helper 
  • Colors for Webmasters
• Principles of Good Web Design
  • Manuals
    • Yale's Style Manual & Principles of Web Design
    • Art and the Zen of Websites --Witty and well written advice about designing a website.
    • Optimizing Web Graphics
    • Developing a Website Prototype
    • Designing for Limited Resources
    • Color in Technical Documents for Paper, Web, and PDF
    • Color Management and Windows
    • Color Under Control
    • Basics of Technical Illustration
    • Mundi Design—WOW!!—color, layout, basic design principles
    • Why Frames Suck Most of the Time
    • Media Research Labs Design Pages
    • Mich WWW Computing Links Collection
    • Web Development News
    • Developing Information Content for the World Wide Web
      • Processes
      • Elements
    • CNET Web Development Library
    • Sun Microsystems on Java and XML
    • Microsoft Developers' Network
    • WebDeveloper.com
    • Webmonkey (Lycos)WebReference.com
    • WebReview.com
    • XML.com
    • Digital Playroom
    • Poison Dart Frog Media
    • Streaming Media World
  • Usability
    • Nielsen usability columns
    • Guidelines for Designing Usable Webpages --An article written by Jose A. Borges, Israel Morales, N. J. Rodriguez
    • Hints for Web Authors 
    • Widening your web audience 
    • Designing for multiple web browser
  • Discussions and News
    • Contentions--a blog about communicating in online environments

Unix Commands

• Unix Commands

• Visual Rhetoric
  • Visual Rhetoric Course--D. Blakesley at Purdue
  • Rhetoric of Webpages
  • Rhetoric of Web Publishing course
  • Visual Rhetoric and Composition Course
  • Virtual Rhetorics in Internet Culture Course
  • Web Rhetoric Resources and Guides
  • Cyberhetoric
  • Visual Rhetoric and the Power of Persuasion
  • Spatial and Visual Rhetorics
  • HyperRhetoroids
  • Dr. B's Blog
  • Suggested Readings in Visual Rhetoric
  • Cite-U-Like Visual Rhetoric Resources
  • Hypertext Theory and Information Architecture (also—Usability)
    • Hypertext Theory--Lannon
    • Media Research Labs—Papers
    • Netizens Netbook
    • Gender Differences in Computer Mediated Communication—Susan Herring
    • Access Issues
      • Accessibility tutorials
      • Cyberstats
      • Leavers and Takers: Alternative Perspectives on Universal Access to Telecommunications Technologies (article in Techne)
• Ethics and Social Issues
  • Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
  • "A Rape in Cyberspace"
  • Social Science Hub: Cyberspace
  • Utopian Promises, Net Realities
  • Resource Center for Cybersocial Cultures
  • Cybersociology
  • Issue: Digital Third Worlds
  • Journal of Online Behavior
  • Influencing the online consumer's behavior: the Web experience--
    Efthymios Constantinides
  • On the Social Organization of Space and the Design of Electronic Landscapes
• Intellectual Property
  • Are you a copyright criminal?
  • Author's Rights
  • Teach Act
  • Copyright and the Internet, Karen Lemiski
  • Cyberlaw and You: What New Media Communicators Must Know
  • Designing the Library Webpage
  • Copyleft and the Open Source Movement (Ethics in Technical Communication)
• Rheingold
  • Book: The Virtual Community
  • Book: Tools for Thought
  • The War Over Innovation--Discusses political efforts to control the web
  • From the Screen to the Streets--Discusses the implications of many-to-many communication enabled by net technologies. Mentions history by which ideas about technology & its implications have evolved. Mentions politics: "This provides opportunities and problems for progressive political activists in three key areas: Gathering and disseminating alternative and more democratic news; creating virtual public spheres where citizens debate the issues that concern democratic societies; and organizing collective political action."
• Hypertext & Creative Writing
  • University of Virginia Elab
  • Links to writing sites
• Internet History
  • History of the Web
  • History of the Internet

Revised 28 February 2007

rkdrury@nku.edu