Here is an excellent Cascading Style
Sheets Tutorial (CSS Tutorial), from the University
of Texas. A style sheet provides a set of rules that how a web page
should display. Style rules specify a property for an HTML tag or set
of tags for items such as font styles and sizes, paragraph positioning,
and line spacing.
Style sheets maintain the separation between structural and
presentation information. This CSS Tutorial gives you a good
introduction and instructions for coding web pages and sites using
cascading style sheets, along with several CSS samples.
Contents of this CSS Tutorial:
- Introduction
- Incorporating
Style Sheets Into Your Document
- Example
Rules
- CSS
Properties
- Inheritance
- Style
Sheets and Forms
- Positioning
- Backgrounds
- Sample
1
- Sample
2
- Conclusion
- References
CSS Tutorial from University of Texas
August 23, 2008, 9:31 pmHow to Design a High Quality Website
August 19, 2008, 10:42 pmPhilosophe.com is
a great resource for learning how to create a high quality
web site. It teaches you quality assurance for web sites,
including the important area of usability. Good web sites have four
things in common: well designed, coded, filled with content,
and thoroughly tested. This site shows you how to perform testing and
QA on your web site, presenting it in a thoughtful and philosophic way.
Though the material discussed and reviewed is aimed at larger sites,
everything is also applicable to smaller sites such as individual home
pages. You will learn the following about web site testing:
- the major concepts at the heart of the quality assurance process
- the critical importance of defining standards and specifications
- the general categories of tests you might want to perform on your web site
- some links to specialized QA web sites that might provide deeper information about any of the topics discussed here
Table of Contents:
Site Design Issues Relating to Quality
- Site Design: Designing in Quality
- Requirements and Specifications
- Standards and Protocols
- Some General Comments on Style Guides
- Some Thoughts on Domain Names
- Common Sense Rules for Interaction Design
- Metaphors and Schemas in Design
Audience Issues
- Getting To Know Your Audience
- Categorizing Your Audience
- Identifying Important Operating Systems
- Identifying Important Browsers
- A Sample User-Agent Log
Testing Web Sites
- Some Basic Testing Concepts
- Building a Test Suite
- Types of Tests
- Understanding and Creating Testcases
- Testing Without a Formal Test Plan
- Outsourcing Web Site Testing
Quality Control for Web Sites
Quality Assurance for Web Sites
Ecommerce Issues
- Introduction and Overview
- Online vs "Traditional" Commerce
- Schemas and Concept Mapping
- The Roles Within Commerce
- Branding and Merchant Identity
- Communicating With Users
- The Impression of Trustworthiness
- Other Commerce-Related Articles
Search Issues
- Considering Search: Search Topics
- Assumptions About Search
- Assumptions About User Search Behavior
- Types of Information Collections
- A Structural Look at Search
- Users and the Task of Information Retrieval
- Testing Search
- Useful Search Links and References
Email and Messaging Issues
Additional Quality Assurance Information
Web Design in Theory and Practice
August 9, 2008, 11:35 pmDesign
in Theory and Practice is a series of five chapters
or tutorials that will teach you all about visual
communication design for the web. These web design tutorials
discuss topics such as the fundamentals of design, typography and
motion, and then also address more advanced theoretical web
design and communication concepts. The author presents and explains
examples from a variety of sources including classical art and
architecture, business, media and movies, the environment and, of
course, the web. These web designing tutorials give you a solid web
designing foundation, along with techniques and how tos for
enhancing your web pages and sites.
Contents of Design in Theory and Practice:
- The
Principles of Design
- The
Elements of Design
- Designing
for the Web
- Principles
and Elements of Design
- Color:
An Investigation
Web Design Articles and Tutorials from Wpdfd.com
July 17, 2008, 9:44 pmWpdfd.com, Webpage Design for Designers, provides some of the best
written Web
Design Articles and Tutorials on the web today.
Here are all of their web development topics,
in alphabetical order. These cover many areas of web design
and development, take a look at the linked list below to find what you
are looking to learn more about.
Web Design Tags for Wpdfd.com:
- accessibility
- adobe
dreamweaver
- adobe
dreamweaver cs3
- bad
design
- basics
- bland
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and grand designs
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design
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- business
- ClearType
- cms
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- content
- creating
more readable text
- cs3
- css
- design
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redesign
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- dreamweaver
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cs3
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meyer
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page
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web
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- focus
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styles
- font
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size
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of the web
- freelance
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2003
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development
- good
design
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web design
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website needs
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design
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up
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- html
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hooks
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- ie8
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Explorer
- interviews
jaredspool
- jump
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links
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up to date
- layout
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spacing
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- line
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height
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styling
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development environment
- logos
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and feel
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frontpage
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x development
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1
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underline
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underlines from links
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css
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stylesheet
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web design
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serif
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Interface
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site designer
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designer
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font
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pages
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digest
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Free Internet Technologies Course
July 5, 2008, 1:49 pmHere is the Internet
Technologies Course from Rai
OpenCourseware.
The tutorials and lessons in this course review and cover serveral
important Internet and Web development
technologies, including networking and internetworking, OSI, TCP-IP,
Internet Hubs and Bridges, Internet Routers, HTML, Java, Java AWT, Java
Servlets, DHTML, and VB Script.
These free Internet and Web training lessons
are well illustrated and
provide
step-by-step instructions. The course tutorial lessons are
in pdf format.
Course Lessons for Internet Technologies:
Internet
Networking
& Internetworking
OSI
& Tcp/Ip Model
Interconnection:
Maintaining End-To-End Service Through Multiple Providers
Internet
Addresses
Internet
Protocol Addresses
Hubs
And Bridges
Routing
Router
Security
Switching
& Internet Protocol Multicast
Mobile
Routing
Browsing
The World Wide Web
Online
Services
Hyper
Text Markup Language
Hyper
Text Mark Up Language-I
Frames
& Graphic Designs
Learning
The Java Language
Language
Basics
Object
Basics And Simple Data Objects
Classes
And Inheritance
Java
Input/ Output Streams
Introduction
To AWT
Java
Servlets
DHTML
Scripting
Introduction
To VB Script