I’m headed to the airport in a few hours and I still haven’t packed my suitcase, so this update will be short and sweet. Next week we will finish up the Usability Report assignment, which is due on Thursday. Bring a rough draft of your report to class on Tuesday (in HTML format) so we [...]
Writing for the World Wide Web
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This is the website for English 313: Writing for the World Wide Web, taught by Quinn Warnick at Iowa State University in fall 2008.Quick Links
Student Sites
- Andy’s Blog
- Andy’s Homepage
- Ben’s Blog
- Ben’s Homepage
- Betsy’s Blog
- Betsy’s Homepage
- Brendon’s Blog
- Brendon’s Homepage
- Devin’s Blog
- Devin’s Homepage
- Emily’s Blog
- Emily’s Homepage
- Isaiah’s Blog
- Isaiah’s Homepage
- Kelly’s Blog
- Kelly’s Homepage
- Molly’s Blog
- Molly’s Homepage
- Nate’s Blog
- Nate’s Homepage
- Ngoc’s Blog
- Ngoc’s Homepage
- Tracy’s Blog
- Tracy’s Homepage
- Tyler’s Blog
- Tyler’s Homepage
Delicious Links
- Styled CSS MenusA nice little gallery of customized menus, both horizontal and vertical. Not much here right now, but if this gets off the ground, it could be very useful.
- 24 ways: Using Google App Engine as Your Own Content Delivery NetworkMatt Riggott explains how to host your website (for free!) on Google's servers. The App Engine even supports custom domain names.
- The Economist: Blogging Grows UpAnother stab at the "Is blogging dead?" question. The verdict: Yes ... WAIT -- No!
- Jeffrey Zeldman: 20 Signs You Don’t Want that Web Design ProjectSo funny. And so painfully true to life.
- The Grid SystemGrids, grids, and more grids! The ultimate collection of tools and resources for grid-based design.
- Google Webmaster CentralEssential tips for getting a new website indexed by Google.
- Feedback ArmyUsability testing on the cheap, with the help of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Neat idea, though I'm not sure how representative the feedback would be of typical web users. Turkers are a pretty specialized breed.
- AVA7 PatternsHundreds of tiled background images for building websites. Squidfingers finally has some competition.
- WebAnywhere: a browser-based screen readerNice little tool to determine how your websites might sound to visually impaired users.
- Drupal.org Redesign PrototypesMark Boulton and colleagues are redesigning the Drupal.org website (hooray!), and they're doing it in a completely transparent fashion (bigger hooray!). These prototypes provide a fascinating glimpse into the team's design process.
- Usability Testing Report on the WordPress InterfacePDF file with an excellent overview of the usability testing process, as well as the results from an in-depth test
- Writing Content that Works for a Living, by Erin Kissane"[A]nyone who touches copy can make a difference by insisting that every chunk of text on the site is doing something concrete."
- A thorough overview of the difference between Quirks Mode and Strict ModeFor enthusiasts only, I suspect...
- Elegant Web TypographyJeff Croft's Web Directions South presentation. So chock-full of good advice it's hard to know where to begin.
- If your pages validate, you're in good (but limited) companyOpera's MAMA project tested over three million URLs, and only 4.13% of them passed the W3C validator. Why? People "just want to get their 'look at my kittens' site on the Web by any means necessary."
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- Styled CSS Menus
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