Resources
Books on Web Design
Mark Boulton, a prominent figure for web design principles, offers his book for free online: http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php
Designing Web Graphics 4th Edition by Lynda http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Graphics-Voices-Riders/dp/0735710791
SFMOMA Bookstore -- excellent design section http://museumstore.sfmoma.org/books-media.html
Builder's Booksource -- wonderful 2D and 3D design bookstore in Berkeley: http://www.buildersbooksource.com/cgi-bin/booksite/index.html
Resources on "The Grid"
Making and Breaking the Grid http://www.amazon.com/Making-Breaking-Grid-Graphic-Workshop/dp/1592531253
Khoi Vinh is well regarding the grid and the web: http://grids.subtraction.com/
http://tinyurl.com/977qozq is a pdf that Khoi Vinh used furing a SXSW
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/07/10/tips-tools-for-grid-based-layouts/
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=960+grid+system&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.responsivegridsystem.com/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/resources-grid-based-design/
Video Resources on Typography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKKDL6lekmA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xg5O0l7ybY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFWJGA7qrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pis96aJRSiw
Design Treats
The Circle and the Line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY
Graphic Design for Beginners (video series)
The Webby Awards: http://www.webbyawards.com/
some noteworthy interface designs:
LEGOs—“Create and Share”: http://www.lego.com/en-us/CreateAndShare/default.aspx The “Create and Share” page here is the main interest. GREAT EXAMPLE of using the site as a community space. Allows kids to upload images of their own creations, a kids’ chat board, a kids safe closed environment for social networking.
MOMA highlights Bauhaus (great example of "the grid", too):
Home: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/bauhaus/Main.html#
Interior page sample: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/bauhaus/Main.html#/Timeline/Artworks
Philadelphia Mural Project: http://explorer.muralarts.org/# Another example of a grid-style pictoral search
Roots (clothing store): http://roots-dev.farstarserver.com/dev/ artsy interface, more original ways of arranging information
A Green architecture site, front page: http://www.asla.org/greenroof/
NY Parks site: http://www.nyrp.org/ (see rollover top menu)
Exploratorium, San Francisco: http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.php (worth looking at for ideas on how to organize lots of different kinds of information for different audiences, and for ideas about utilizing geometry on a page)
Louvre, Paris: http://www.louvre.fr/en
one of the best data search visualization interfaces I have seen. Example: http://www.louvre.fr/en/moteur-de-recherche-oeuvres?f_search_art=egypt
The Met site is quite good, too: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/100000736?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=hatshepsut&pos=7
Gorgeous, extremely well organized, and a very well thought out user experience.
History and Functionality of the Web
The History of the Internet -- Groovy b&w 2D graphics! (8 minute video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&feature=related
…and How it Works (5 minute video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc&feature=related
Developer Tools
Firebug
(a Firefox plugin which enables you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/
Overall Coding Tutorials-- XHTML, CSS, Javascript, HTML5, and more!
The New Boston Educational Tutorials (BOOKMARK THIS!)
http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php
w3schools
http://www.w3schools.com/
XHTML
The New Boston XHTML Tutorials
http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=40
XHTML Doctype Tag Code=
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
CSS
CSS Play
--Dozens of CSS menus to try!
Some are free, some request donation. Please respect authors’ request to leave copyright in the code.
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/
CSS Zen Garden
--Download the HTML and CSS files for beautiful web pages and play with altering them for practice and learning.
http://www.csszengarden.com/
CSS Juice-- Rounded Corners Techniques
http://www.cssjuice.com/25-rounded-corners-techniques-with-css/
All About Floats
(there is a 23-minute screen cast video, too, at the end of the text)
http://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/
The New Boston CSS Tutorials
http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=40
Javascript
The New Boston Javascript Tutorials
http://thenewboston.org/list.php?cat=10
HTML 5
VERY GOOD 5-minute video on how to code video in HTML 5 for all browsers!
HOMEWORK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZVFUQOCQWI
A 41-minute video with Brad Neuberg of Google’s Developers’ Program on where the web has come from, where it is going, and the role of HTML5 video
HOMEWORK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siOHh0uzcuY
Adobe on HTML5: what is it?
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/edge-videos/preparing-for-html5/
Some HTML5 video source code
http://www.curiousm.com/labs/2011/07/01/building-an-iphoneipadandroid-compatible-html5-video-player-part-1/
HTML5 video source code and explanations of how it works
http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2010/02/html5-video-markup.html
HTML5 video source code for different situations
http://allwebco-templates.com/support/S_video_movie.htm
HTML5 tutorials of all sorts on The New Boston
http://thenewboston.org/tutorials.php
Wordpress
Wordpress Tutorial
23 minute video, best one I have found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexUS43sdeQ&feature=related
Accessibility Guidelines
Top 10 Tips for Making Your Website Accessible
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu/developer-information/top-ten-tips/
Developer Resources
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu/developer-information/top-ten-tips/
Some Types of Disabilities, their challenges and suggested solutions for web design
http://lscr.berkeley.edu/advice/web/accessibility
Adobe Accessibility Features
http://access.adobe.com/
WAVE 3.0 Accessibility Tool
free, allows you to check your code
http://wave.webaim.org/index.jsp
(Free) Video Converters
Miro
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/