Please note that not all of the readings listed below have been assigned, and you are not required to have read all of them. Some, like "Special Characters in HTML" are useful reference texts listed so you can find them easily. Others explore design issues in more detail and are listed with the hope that you will be interested in learning more about a topic.
HTML Readings and Guides
- Getting Started with HTML by Dave Raggett
- More Advanced Features by Dave Raggett
- Intro to HTML by WebMonkey
- HTML Quick Reference by U of Kansas ACS
- Colors in HTML by UT ITS
- Special Characters in HTML by UT ITS
Visio Guides
- Microsoft Visio 2003 Assistance (using Internet Explorer suggested)
Usability Readings
- List of 10 Usability Heuristics
- Reduce Redundancy: Decrease Duplicated Design Decisions (June 9, 2002)
- Deep Linking is Good Linking (March 3, 2002)
- Site Map Usability (January 6, 2002)
- First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users (August 5, 2001)
- Eyetracking Study of Web Readers (May 14, 2000)
- Is navigation useful? (January 9, 2000)
- Writing for the Web by Jeffrey Zeldman
- Writing for the Web Part II by Crawford Kilian
- Color Your Web by Christopher Schmitt
- No Blue: Design Notes on alistapart.com by Jeffrey Zeldman
- Testing 123 by Julia Hayden
- Reading Design by Dean Allen
- Typography Matters by Erin Kissane
- Usability Experts are from Mars, Graphic Designers are from Venus by Curt Cloninger
- Sample Usability Test Scripts, Questionnaires, Checklists, and Forms
- Usability Test Plans :: see particularly Usability Test Plan for MSTPC Web Environments
Some information available from the two above list items are viewable only in PDF format, which requires having Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. To download the Acrobat Reader for free, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
CSS Readings and References
- A Beginner's Guide to CSS by Stuart Robertson
- CSS1 References with sidebar by W3C (with Eric Meyer)
- What Makes CSS so Great by Eric Meyer
- Whny Broswers Haven't Standardized by Eric Meyer
- CSS Bugs in IE5 for Mac by CodeBitch
- Tricking Broswers and Hiding Styles by Eric Meyer
- CSS Tabs with Submenus by the Kalsey Group
- Rounded Tab Corners by Eric Meyer
- Containing Floats by Eric Meyer
- CSS Image Rollovers by Stuart Robertson
- ReUSEIT -- ReDesign USEIT.COM Contest at built for the future (see useit.com, the page they were re-designing)
Accessibility Readings and Guides
- Accessibility in the CWRL
- The Accessibility Institute
- UT Accessibility Guidelines
- UT Designing Accessible Web Sites Page
- Access Washington Web Accessibility
- Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility
- A List Apart on Accessibility
- The Growing Digital Divide in Access for People with Disabilities: Overcoming Barriers to Participation by Cynthia D. Waddell
- Simple Steps to More Readable Type Through Universal Graphic Design
- Making Text Legible: Designing for People with Partial Sight by Aries Arditi
- Effective Color Contrast: Designing for People with Partial Sight and Color Deficiencies by Aries Arditi
- ‘The Eye of the Beholder’— Designing for Colour-Blind Users by Christine Rigden (*.pdf file; adobe acrobat reader)
- WebAIM
- IBM Accessibility Center
- Section 508
- The Access Board
- Web Accessibility Iniative