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Texts and Course Materials
Texts and Course Materials
Books
Required early in quarter for planning Website. Both are trade books, available from Safari books online through library
Additional CSS books
- CSS: The Pocket Reference by Eric Meyer, O'Reilly, 2007
- The CSS Anthology by Rachel Andrew, Sitepoint, 2007
- Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide, by Charles Whyke-Smith, New Riders, 2nd ed. 2007
- The Ultimate CSS Reference, by Olssen & O'Brien,Sitepoint, 2008
- Everything you Know about CSS is wrong, Andrew & Yank, Sitepoint, 2008 (CSS3)
Web sites from the past
Hardware/Gear
- Scanner, Video capture, high-end multimedia computers, and expert advice and help available in Studio 6
- Digital camera (short-term loaners in Studio 6)
- Video Camera (short-term loaners in Studio 6)
- Modem, ppp connection to Internet, VPN software
Software - free tryouts; discounted prices in bookstore; available in labs
- Download 30-day tryout versions from Adobe
- Photoshop CS4 extended
- Dreamweaver CS4
- Premiere Pro CS4
- Flash CS4 Professional
- After-Effects CS4
- Bundled packages are also available for purchase at the bookstore for highly discounted prices.
Design Standards
- All websites must pass XHTML. CSS, Color Contrast, and Accessibility validation
- Test in Firefox --provides greater adherence to standards -- fewer workarounds required & because web developer's toolbar has more options than IE toolbar.
- Install Web Developer Toolbar Extension available in both Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.
- It is a great tool for validating websites, managing layout with CSS, viewing pages in browser of different dimensions, etc.
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Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension
