Week 2

Info Architecture & Visual Organization

• Information Architecture
• Organizing Information
• Schemes and Structures
• In-class outline
• Intro to CSS (formatting)
• Design document example

Readings

• Yale Style Guide - Site Design
• Information Architecture Tutorial - Webmonkey
• Designing the User Experience - Jennifer Fleming
• Web Navigation - Tiller and Green
• A Visual Vocabulary - J.J.Garrett
• Wodtke, Chpt 1,2,5,6
• Eye Tracking Study of Web Users - Jakob Nielsen

Resources

• Some Online Webmaster
  • HTML Character Entities
  • Color Wheel
  • Quality Tips for Webmasters
  • Web Developer Extension Menubar (Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla all platforms)
  • W3C Link-Checker
  • The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design
  • NYPL Online Style Guide

Assignments

• Groups assigned in class, first class meeting
• Individual Course Web Page, due Monday midnight