Readings
DiNucci: Elements of Web Design
(I recommend student read this entire book during the time they are designing.
Good primer for beginners!)
Chapter 1: What is the Web?
Chapter 2: Possibilities and Limitations
Chapter 3: Who is doing Web pages
Chapter 4: The process of Web Design
Chapter 5: Structuring the site
Chapter 6: HTML basics
Chapter 7: Designing pages with HTML
Chapter 8: WEB Graphics
Chapter 9: Alternate Page formats
Chapter 10: Multimedia
Chapter 11: Interactivity
Chapter 12: Programming the Web
Weinman: Designing Web Graphics.2 (second edition)
Chapter 2: Understanding the Web environment
Chapter 3: Web file formats
Chapter 4: Low bandwidth graphics
Chapter 6: Browser safe color
Chapter 10: Navigation-Based graphics
Chapter 12: Scanning for the Web
Chapter 13: Layout and alignment techniques
Chapter 14: Animation
Chapter 15: Sound
Chapter 16: Interactivity
Seigel: Creating Killer Web Sites (second edition)
Chapter 2: Third-Generations sites
Chapter 3: Preparing images
Chapter 4: Laying out pages
Chapter 5: Rendering type
Chapter 9: A Gallery
Chapter 10: Creative Design solutions
Gillispie, Joe : Web Page Design for Designers
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/pixelp/wpdesign/
Useful Journals and sites:
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/projects/mmdesign/
MMresource.html
http://www.killersites.com/1-design/index.html
http://heidsite.com
http://www.onlineinc.com/emedia
http://www.eyemedia.com
http://www.dv.com/magazine
http://macworld.zdnet.com/pages/past.html
Articles:
http://www.emediapro.net/EM1998/ozer5.html
Ozer, Jan (1998): The Nine Rules of Digital Video Creation. Emedia
Professional. May 1998
http://www.eyemedia.com/backissues/1997/1197/stream
intro9711.htm
Manners, Chris (1997) The Sound of Streaming. Interactivity, Nov 1997
http://www.eyemedia.com/backissues/1997/1097/9710flash.
htm
Gasperini, Jim (1997): A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE WEB: Macromedia Flash 2.0 For Mac.
Interactivity, Oct 1997.
http://www.dv.com/magazine/
Johnson, Nels (1998): Raising the Bar: DV Video on the Web. Digital Video.
June 1998
Johnson, Nels (1997): Embedding Web Video: DV Video on the Web. Digital
Video. August 1997
Johnson, Nels (1997): Getting Video on the Web: DV Video on the Web. Digital
Video. August 1997
Rose, Jay (1998): Digitize with Dignity: DV Audio Solutions. Digital Video.
June 1998
Waggoner, Ben (1998): Making a Great First Compression. Digital Video. June
1998
http://www.adobe.com/studio/tipstechniques/photoshop.html
Adobe Tips: Preparing Graphics for the Web
Lopuck (1996) : The Discriminating Color Palette. Adobe Magazine. May/June
1996
http://www.syllabus.com/oct97_mag.html
Lynch, P and Sarah Horton (1997): HTML vs. Authoring tools for creating
CD-ROMS. Sylllabus . Oct 1997.
Handouts by Coco Kishi:
Image processing with Photoshop 4.0
Photoshop Tips
About Animation and Video
About Adobe Premiere
Using Macromedia SoundEdit16 v2
About SoundEffects