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Web Authoring Links

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I. Getting Started

Project Cool's Web Development Tools
Including the HTML QuickStart

A Step-by-Step Way to Learn HTML:
Case Western Reserve University's Introduction to HTML

Netscape Wizard:
Fill out forms to create an instant web page

Link Parts of Web Images to Other Sites:
Client side image maps: basic how-to and syntax

Links to Web Authoring Resources:
Software Tools at Killersites.com

Kevin Werbach's Bare Bones Guide to HTML:
Good links on Web Authoring

Webtech's HTML validator:
Checks if your HTML fits the official specifications.

II. Web Design

Yale C/AIM style guide
Detailed guide to creating effective web pages.

Web Page Design for Designers
Joe Gillespie explains layout, typography and graphics

Design Links:
Ying Tan's web resources pages of design related web sites

Designing Web Graphics
Lynda Weinman's HomeGURLL page w/ excellent color tips

Web Graphics:
"Beyond the Bones" simple principles for web graphics

Laura McCanna's Photoshop and Corel Tips
Help for Web graphics

III. Shareware / Freeware for Web Authoring

GIF Builder:
Freeware utility to create animated GIFs for your web site.

Thorsten Lemke's amazing Graphic Converter shareware
80% of Photoshop functions (ftp from AOL)

Pagespinner HTML Editing Tool for Mac:
Good for beginners as well as mavens

IV. Interesting Places on the Web

MoMA's Web Projects
Includes an AIDS Time Capsule, Travelogue through China.

Grammatron
a graphic novel

Planet 9 web design company
Home of Virtual Kyoto, Virtual MIR & the Geisha avatar. (VRML browser needed)

Project NZ
Journal of a bike trip across New Zealand

Web Design From A Pro:
David Siegel's Killer Web Sites

Wow Web Wonders
Award-winning sites sorted by category

I.D. magazine awards
Links to award winning Websites. Excerpts from CD projects available >at the library: RSRV AAA CD-ROM N7433.8.I58 1997)

Richard Rogers' Partnership:
Architectural portfolio with unified, quietly elegant design

V. Computer-Aided Teaching Tools

Faculty Consultants Network:
Oregon Faculty Consultants Network project of the UO Educational Technology Committee designed to improve faculty access to instructional technology

Web Conferencing:
Motet: University of Oregon's experimental conferencing service

Courses On The Web:
WebCT: Web course tools

VI. 3D for the Web

Graphics Formats:
File formats for images, movies & 3D files

Introduction to VRML:
VRML at Silicon Graphics

VRML:
Virtual reality modeling language

Quickdraw 3D:
Apple computer's native QuickDraw 3D

Form-Z 3D Modeler:
Form-Z from Autodessys: powerful 3D & 2D modeling application