Outside Links

The following links are offered as starting points for students in CMS 3710. The list will change as the course progresses.

Index

None of the lists mentions everything available on the World Wide Web for that topic. If your research requires it, make sure to use several of the WWW search engines available.

Textbook Links Back to Top

Hillman Curtis
Curtis's corporate site maintains an inspiring portfolio, in addition to examples from the book.
 
Language of New Media
Lev Manovich's personal web site includes a number of illustrations of examples and ideas in his book, including chapter 2.
 

CSU Writing Resources Back to Top

Writing Guidelines
These are the standards used to evaluate written work in CMS 3710.
Writing Guidelines Mini-Handbook
These pages offer a condensed handbook for writers.

CSU Web space Back to Top

Activating Your CSU email/Web space
The page is maintained by the Hub.
Using your CSU Web space
Created by the Hub, this is a good, short tutorial to get you started using FTP to move files to your CSU web space. It uses WS-FTP LE for its examples.

Internet Art Back to Top

A is for Apple
This is among the most sophisticated uses of the Web's hyperlinked structure that I have come across.
ArtCrimes
ArtCrimes collects images of graffiti art from around the world. The artwork is a great example of the science-fiction writer William Gibson's observation: "the Street" finding new uses for media of all kinds. In this case, the aerosol spray can becomes a medium of self-expression.
Artport at the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York maintains this portal to net.art, including a gallery of commissioned works. The museum's 2001 Bitstreams exhibition includes a good overview essay about the impact of computers on art and artists.
 
Public Domain
Atlanta-based Public Domain is a loose affiliation of new media artists and activists.
Levitated Tile
A great single-artist site of playful, interactive creations. Take a look at the Open Source section.
Listening Post
This site documents an extraordinary museum installation built around real-time chat.
Requiem for a Dream
This site for the film won awards for the London-based Web design firm hi, Rez!. It's opening navigation screen is extraordinary.
SoulBath
Also created by  hi, Rez!, SoulBath includes several good examples of 3-dimensional, interactive site maps.
SxSW Interactive Art Show
This annual exhibition is held in Austin, Texas, and promotes interactive art. Its Web site includes galleries of Web sites entered in its competitions.

Web Design Back to Top

Cardiothoracic Imaging
An outstanding example of educational Web site design, created by one of the authors of the Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide (cf. the last entry in this section).
Color Palette Creator
This Javascript-powered site lets you choose a base color and quickly generate complementary tones of that color.
CSS Cheat Sheets
(At least) two good ones are available. Leslie Frank's page is more straightforward, while ilovejackdaniels.com's is more detailed.
CSS Zen Garden
This site demonstrates the flexibility and power of CSS. Graphic artists have crafted individual style sheets that give very different "looks" to the same HTML file.
Flickr Creative Commons
Flickr's users have published millions of images that we can use, under a variety of different restrictions. Make sure to follow the requirments.
 
Jakob Nielsen's useit.com
Nielsen, among the Web's best-known authorities on information architecture, maintains a resource for usability. His hotlist of other recommended Web sites is particularly useful.
Media Inspiration
This is an excellent site to review the work of high-end graphic designers.
Stylegala.com
This is a publication about web design and standards.
Webby Awards
The Web's answer to the Oscars, sponsored by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Webmonkey
This webzine is devoted to creating World Wide Web sites.
Web Style Guide
This online style guide by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton is a required text for the course. On their Site Structure page, Lynch and Horton define discuss the appropriate design strategies for varied users and types of information. A good example a site designed for higher education is Yale University's Cardiothoracic Imaging. However, it's important to note that the Style Guide's selective focus neglects many less utilitarian uses of the Web. A is for Apple, for example, is net.art that mobilizes the design theme of lengthy contact time and non-linear structure for very different purposes.

Web Standards and Professional Organizations Back to Top

A List Apart
This Web journal publishes articles and other resources for the standards-compliant developer community. (The New Media Studio in UC 150 uses Dreamweaver MX 2004, so the following does not apply there. However, if you use Dreamweaver 4.0 on your own computer and are comfortable changing low-level settings, you may want to read the article on making Dreamweaver default to more standards-compliant code.)
New York Public Library Web Style Guide
This is the best place to start learning about transitional XHTML and CSS. The NYPL uses both languages to ensure that the widest possible audience can benefit from its resources. Its style guide offers excellent explanations and tutorials.
Web Standards Project
A coalition of designers and graphic artists seeking to convince the major browser makers that consistent support of standards are in everyone's best interest.
W3C Markup Validation Service
Use this site to test your home page's XHTML.
World Wide Web Consortium
Headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, this is the Web's ultimate standards body.