PART 2:READING ASSIGNMENTS

Readings on Hypertext Design Issues: Week of 30 Sept & 7 Oct

• Morris and Hinrichs Web Page Design:
  • 1: Web -- a different multimedia
  • 3: Cognitive Design
  • 2: Content Design
  • 5: Navigational Design
  • 6: Layout
  • 12:Testing the Design

• Wilson, Stephen. World Wide Web Design Guide.
  Chapters: 1 and 9.

More on HTML Tagging: By 14 October lab session

• Wilson, Stephen. World Wide Web Design Guide.
  Chapters: 2,3,4

• More HTML tags from the UC Berkeley Library site.

Web Style Guides: Week of 14 October

• Lynch, Patrick. WWW Style Manual
  Required reading . Lynch discusses design of Web sites and pages in terms readability, organization of information and navigation from section to section. Highly recommended for all Web designers.

• Sun Microcomputer. Guide to Web Style
  Contains more useful suggestions on design.

• Communications Development Inc. An HTML Style Sheet
  Provides a list of design guidelines and offers pointers to Web sites that incorporate useful and interesting design features.

• Apple Web Design Guide
  Web design advice from Apple.

• Web Page Design for Designers
  An overview of effective design techniques.

• Web Design for Librarians
  More resources on design from the Rutgers Univ. Scholarly Communication Center.

Evaluation of Hypertext as a Communication Medium/Usability

• Course Reader: week of 21 October **POSTPONED**
  
  • Shneiderman. Reflections on authoring
  • Miller. The ethics of hypertext
  • Andrew and Musser. Collaborative design...
  • Levin and Conrad. A heuristic evaluation...

• Nielsen, Jakob and Darrell Sano. Sun Web: User Interface Design
  A research report on the design process and criteria used for creation of the Sun Microcomputer intranet site by another leading expert in the field of hypertext authoring.