Links to Resources on the Web

 

Jimmy Clark’s website:

http://www.austincc.edu/jdclark/

 

History of Internet and World Wide Web

 

Hobbes’ Internet Timeline V.7

http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

 

A Little History of the World Wide Web (World Wide Web Consortium)

http://www.w3.org/History.html

 

Internet and World Wide Web History (links to many sites)

http://www.elsop.com/wrc/h_web.htm

 

Some Early Ideas for HTML (W3.org)

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/historical

 

 

Internet History from the WWW Virtual Library

http://vlib.iue.it/history/internet/

 

Web Turns 35, but Still Work in Progress

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040829/D84P39BG0.html

 

 

Resources on Web for Web Design

 

Open Source Web Design

http://www.oswd.org/

 

Microsoft Office Online

http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802&CTT=6&Origin=ES790020011033

 

Jumpola

http://www.jumpola.com/#web%20design

 


 

Examples of Poor Website Design

http://www.baddesigns.com/

 

Arizona State University

http://www.asu.edu/

 

Horseback Riding Stable and Horse Rentals

http://www.horserentals.com/

 

 

 

Examples of Good Website Design

 

Joost van Schaik’s Djojo Studios

http://www.djostudios.com/

 

American Eagle Outfitters

http://www.ae.com/

 

 

Beringer Vineyards

http://www.beringer.com/

 

Honda

http://www.honda.com/index.asp?bhcp=1

 

 

Digital River

http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry?SP=10007&SID=3528&CID=0&CUR=840&DSP=0&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0

 

Relevare

http://www.relevare.com/site/

 

Crayola.com

http://crayola.com/

 

Pentagram

http://www.pentagram.com/index.htm

 

Second Story

http://secondstory.com/

 

Shutterfly

http://www.shutterfly.com/

 

University of Illinois

http://www.uiuc.edu/index.html

 

VGC

http://virtuallyglobal.com/

 

Lynda Weinman

http://www.lynda.com/

 

Architecture and Development of New York City

http://www.nycarchitecture.columbia.edu/0241_2/index.html

 

2005 Annual Blue Genie Art Bazaar

http://www.bluegenieart.com/art_bazaar_2005.html

 

Adactio by Jeremy Keith

http://www.adactio.com/

 

And All That Malarkey

http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/

 

CSS Zen Garden

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/093/093.css&page=11

 

Ashes and Snow

http://www.ashesandsnow.org/

 

 

 

 

Website Navigation

 

Visual Hierarchy:

 

Shutterfly.com – Simple, targeted approach

http://www.shutterfly.com/

 

 

Kodak.com – Harder to target

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml;jsessionid=MYRTJH2NALTSTFW4FBEHWEMW1YUBI4L4?pq-path=2/3&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=29170

 

Yahoo – Two search methods

http://www.yahoo.com/

 

 

Zones.com – Persistent navigation

http://www.zones.com/cgi-bin/zones/site/home/index.html

 

Art Center – Form menus

http://www.artcenter.edu/

 

Design for Life – Frames

http://ndm.si.edu/dfl/

 

Target – Four ways to navigate: Persistent, Search box, Text-based, Form-based menu

http://www.target.com/gp/homepage.html/602-8454716-8119818?

 

Selecting Colors for Your Web Pages

 

ColorMix

http://www.colormix.com/

 

 

Two4U’s Color Page

http://www.two4u.com/color

 

ZSPC Super Color Chart

http://www.zspc.com/color/index-e.html