[Air-l] Undergraduate HTML text

[Ulla Bunz]

I think it is absolutely essential to teach some sort of usability understanding before or while teaching web design. A technically sophisticated site can still look like crappola, and a very basic site can look good and work well. Personally, I think especially in a communicaiton course that should be so, because we should think of usability as a new communication channel.
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> From: aoir.z3z at danah.org
> Date: 2002/10/26 Sat PM 01:25:48 EDT
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Undergraduate HTML text
> 
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> I guess it depends on the level and the amount of time, but i'd suggest
> (in a sorta technical level order):
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> Basic HTML concepts and then build through Dreamweaver
> Some combination of Photoshop/Illustrator/Fireworks/Freehand
> Flash
> PHP & MySQL
> 
> And possibly throwing in basic setup/design of Webblogs (i.e.  
> MoveableType) and that movement (which is still new and interesting,
> always a motivation for students and can definitely get into the comm
> perspective).
> 
> Of course, this is just the technological section of it... 
> 
> danah
> 
> 
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Nicole Ellison wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for a good text to use in an undergraduate web production
> > class (Comm Dept)-- something technically sound but accessible,
> > preferably grounded in some solid design principles. Any suggestions?
> > Has anyone used Weinman's creative html design.2?
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Ulla Bunz
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