Introduction:

This page contains links to resources related to the University of The Arts Web Standards/Dreamweaver courses.

Announcements:

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Higher Education Web Symposium

The University of Pennsylvania will be holding a Higher Education Web Symposium on July 15-16, 2008 focusing on the unique challenges of web design and development in academia. One of the speakers is Eric Meyer who is the author of one of the CSS books I have recommended and is one of, if not the, foremost experts in the area of CSS. Details for the Symposium can be found here. (Thanks Erin Murphy).

Resources:

Books:

(These are recommended, NOT required.)

• HTML Utopia : Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Rachel Andrew, Daniel Shafer
• CSS : The Definitive Guide by Eric A. Meyer
• JavaScript : The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition by David Flanagan
• DOM Scripting : Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith, Dave Shea

Web Resources:

Tutorials:

• lynda

General Web Design:

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• w3schools
• alistapart
• webmonkey
• Web Pages That Suck (what not to do)

CSS:

• CSS Zen Garden
• Using CSS to Do Anything

JavaScript:

• JavaScriptKit
• Javascript.com
• Mozilla JavaScript Reference
• Ajaxian (covers ajax = asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
• JavaScript Libraries and FrameWorks
  • prototype
  • jQuery
  • scriptaculous
  • dojo
  • spry (Integrated into Dreamweaver CS 3)
  • yui (The Yahoo! User Interface Library)

Podcasts:

• Computer Science E-75: Building Dynamic Websites Harvard Extension School
• Boagworld (good general web design podcast)

Firefox Plugins:

• Firebug (if you have Firefox I strongly recommend installing this)
• Web Developer Toolbar (another good one).
• JavaScript Debugger