User-Centered Web Development
HCI 332 (601)

Additional Books

• HTML &XHTML The Definitive Guide (as reference)
• Robin Williams and John Tollett, The Non-Designer's Web Book (explains visual principles)
• Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir, Homepage Usability (50 web-sites deconstructed, excellent examples)
• David Siegel's Creating Killer Web Sites (addressing aesthetic issues)
• Jakob Nielsen's Designing Web Usablity

Usability Testing

• Jacob Nielsen's www.useit.com
• Steve Krug's advanced common sense page
• Usable Web contains categorized articles by some well-known web gurus

Background and History

• Vannevar Bush's As We May Think
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) page including a history of HTML

The World Wide Web

• Search Engines: Altavista, Google
• Directories: yahoo, excite, lycos

UNIX

• DePaul's Unix help (basic commands)
• Unix Help
• Indiana's pico page
• How to set up .forward file

HTML

• The WRCs HTML page including HTML 4.0 specification.
• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Basic HTML
• Microsoft Frontpage
• EditPlus HTML editor
• Web Design Group's HTML help
• Special Characters (iso8859-1)
• Unicode

JavaScript

• Netscape's JavaScript Guide
• Using Regular Expressions in Javascript

Cookies

• Cookie documentation
• Cookies considered harmful
• Cookie FAQ

Cascading Style Sheets

• A quick reference to selectors and values.
• A short guide to style sheets.
• The W3C's style sheet page.

Security and Privacy

• Counterpane newsletter
• Junkbuster's cookie page
• Privacy issues

Navigation

• Article on navigation

XML

• An introduction to XML
• Information and detailed examples on XML and XSL
• W3C SVG specification
• Adobe SVG plug-in
• Adobe's SVG external links page (demos, tutorials, etc.)