Links
As promised here are some useful links. I will split them into sections but ESSENTIAL links must be looked at and reflected on before the end of the term:
Essential links
- J Neilson - usuability guru
- WW3 – World Wide Web Consortium
- W3Schools – Web Consortium tutorials
- Web Style Guide - site covering all areas of interface design
- Harvard referencing system - to make sure all you references and citations are correctly presented
- Web Accessibility guidelines (exactly what it says)
- Internet infrastructure – from ‘How Stuff Works’
- Usability – government site
- 10 heuristics of interface design – from J Neilson
Interesting sites
- Way Back Machine from archive.org
- CSS3 – working group developing CSS
- Intro to CSS3 – from WWW consortium
- Zen Garden – CSS in action
Dreamweaver tutorials/resources
- Adobe TV - video tutorials of all the DW basics from Adobe
- Step by step guide to making a site in DW (using ready-made templates)
- Adobe CS4 DW developer centre (includes CSS tutorials)
- Pay for expert online tuition from Lynda.com (1 month $25) or look at some sample tutorials for free
- Another free step-by step tutorial with downloadable assets
- Video tutorial: a tour round the CS4 interface
Hosting
- One.com – domain name and hosting free for one year (but with admin charge and NO control panel)
- UK-Cheapest – £1.59 p/m plus domain – one click CMS installation (not sure if this has control panel)
- Vision Internet – £35 a year for ‘home-plus’ option – all requirements met WITH control panel
- Freehosting – just found this and it looks OK & costs nothing – also seems to have all the required functions
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Flash links – Tutorials:
Basics
- Flash workspace
- Creating a shape tween
- Simple buttons
- Transparent button – with downloadable fla files
- Creating scenes
- Simple actionscript
- Importing video into Flash
More advanced
- Flash – load external movie command
- Basic drag and drop – from tutorialised
- Drag and drop jigsaw
- Simple audio – looped sound, event sound etc
- Flash video learning guide from Adobe Developer Centre
- Downloadable flash source files – nice effects
- More great source code from Levitated
Inspirational Flash
- Nobodyhere
- Larry Carlson
- Inanimate Alice
- Photocollagen
- Billy Harvey
- Animex soundtoys
- Matthew Mahon
- Wefail
- Eminem
- Sofake
- The Pantry
- Nike game
- Quest for the Rest
- Exciting web design using Flash
Sound effects:
Moving images:
Tools:
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