Media Tertia - Designing for the World Wide Web

Design for the World Wide Web

Design Tips, Tutorials & Reference Sites

Art and Zen of Web Sites
http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml

Recommended books
http://www.dac.neu.edu/soa/a.sardi/books/orderbooks.htm

Web Page Design for Designers
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm

WebReference.com - Dmitry's Design Lab, excellent essays on the fine art of web design.
http://webreference.com/dlab/

WebMonkey Web developer's resource - excellent source for web design tips and resources from HotWired/Lycos. Writings updated daily.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/

Lynda.com - Hottest design site on the web
http://www.lynda.com/

UCSC's Instructional Computing List of Web Authoring Tutorials
http://wwwcatsic.ucsc.edu/Tutorials/webauth.html

Navigation Basics

The Navigation and Usability Guide by Jen Muehlbauer (WebReview.com)
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/05/15/thing/index.html

Designing Navigation Systems (excerpt from O'Reilly's book, "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web")
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/02/20/arch/index.html

Photoshop

Aquarium Software's Hot Photoshop Tips
http://www.aquariumsoftware.com.au/photoshop/index.htm

Adobe Photoshop Online Tutorial
http://www.adscape.com/eyedesign/photoshop/four/index.html

Lynda.com Photoshop Tips (short quicktime movies covering hot tips in Photoshop 5.5) http://www.lynda.com/tips/ps5.5.html

Dreamweaver 2.0

Macromedia's Dreamweaver Basics support page
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/basics.html

Lynda.com's Dreamweaver 2.0 Tips (short quicktime movies covering the best tips for DreamWeaver 2.0)
http://www.lynda.com/tips/dr2.html

Excellent public DreamWeaver Tutorial from California State University, Chico's Technology and Learning Program
http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/tutorials/web/dreamweaver/

The DreamWeaver Bible Home Page
http://www.idest.com/dreamweaver/contents-fr.htm

Web-Safe Color Palettes

Web Safe colors Lynda's non-dithering colors by hue
http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html

Best Online 216-color webmaster's palette
http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/

Visibone's list of palette site links
http://www.visibone.com/links/

Storyboarding / Concept Mapping

Multimedia Storyboard examples
http://staff9.cis.uoguelph.ca/planets.htm

Design Cycle Multimedia pages from Rohan - SDSU
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its/cycle/

Design Art Resources

AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html

Web Designer's Paradise
http://www.desktopPublishing.com/webparadise.html

Freeimages.com - Free web art and photographs for web
http://www.freeimages.com/

Best Free Graphic art for Webmasters from WebReference.com http://webreference.com/authoring/graphics/images.html

Web ClipArt
http://webclipart.tqn.com/internet/design/webclipart/msub5t.htm

Icon Browser (search public domain web icons by thumbnail or keyword)
http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/iconbrowser/

High Quality Animated Gifs from Animation Factory
http://www.animfactory.com/

Media Tertia - The Middle Medium 1999