Creating Web Documents

An introduction to HTML & CSS

Instructor: Robert Spahr
Contact: rspahr@siu.edu
AIM: rospahr

Suggested Text:

Castro, Elizabeth. HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide). Peachpit Press

 

Further Reading:

Chapman, Nigel & Jenny. Web Design, A Complete Introduction. Wiley

Wardrip-Fruin, Noah & Montfort, Nick. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Packer, Randall & Jordan, Ken. Multimedia From Wagner to Virtual Reality. New Yok, NY, W. W. Norton & Company

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Lecture Notes

Lecture notes - Speedviewers Guide to New Media

Lecture notes - Basic HTML

Lecture notes - CSS style, Image formats, CSS layout

Web Resources:


Technical Skills
Controlling the Network & Intellectual Property
Open Source/Free Software Movement
Web 2.0 (Wiki, RSS, AJAX, Social Networking)
Art and Design


Technical Skills

Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

HTML Advanced Tutorial

CSS Basics

Zen Garden - The Beauty of CSS Design

CSS How-to

Web Page Design for Designers: Typography

W3Schools

Image Map for Detailed Information

Hackers and Painters

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website

IE8 Version Targeting causes quite a stir

Wikipedia: Browser Wars

Dive into HTML5


Controlling the Network & Intellectual Property

Youtube video: Net Neutrality

Wired.com: Military and Social Networking

Kelly: The Technium - Better Than Free

All your Internets are belong to ATT & the NSA

Schoolkid chipping trial 'a success'

Comcast Actively Hinders Subscribers' File-Sharing Traffic, AP Testing Shows

Law Firm Uses Copyright Claim To Say You Can't View Its Website's HTML Source

Free speech could lead to online disconnect

MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites

US cities' Wi-Fi dreams fading fast

Web search for bomb recipes should be blocked: EU

History of the World Wide Web

The End of the Internet?

Free Culture: Lawrence Lessig Keynote from OSCON 2002 - 08/15/2002

The future of HTML, Part 1: WHATWG

EU says internet could fall apart

Summary Of The World: Googlezon And The Newsmasters EPIC


Open Source/Free Software Movement

The Origins of Linux [Video]

Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds

Free as in Freedom
Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

Open Source Definition


Web 2.0 (Wiki, RSS, AJAX, Social Networking)

The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

Could Twitter become the ultimate buzz tracker?

The Ethics of Web 2.0: YouTube vs. Flickr, Revver, Eyespot, blip.tv, and even Google

What Is Wiki

A personal NON server wiki using XHTML, CSS and Javascript

What is RSS?

The MySpace Generation

AJAX Web Applications
NYtimes - Web Tools Blaze Trail To The Past

Adaptive Path - AJAX

Google Labs Mirror (Demo of AJAX)

Why Ajax Sucks (Most of the Time)

Google Maps (Demo of AJAX)

Video Distribution Platform Aiming to Kill TV


Art & Design

The Laws of Simplicity - John Maeda

Paul Graham Essays

Ellen Lupton: Thinking with Type