WRIT373: Writing and Designing for the Web

Books

Current Textbook(s):

• Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish This text is required for the course
• New Perspectives on Blended HTML, XHTML, and CSS by Henry Bojack, 2nd edition This text is required
  for the course

Other Books I Like:

• Web Design Workshop by Robin Williams

Audience

• Personas – Society for Technical Communication Book of Knowledge

Design

Prototyping

• Shawn Medero – A List Apart: Paper Prototyping

Accessibility

• I’d Rather Be Writing – Simple Tips for Web Accessibility: Brenda Huettner at the STC Summit (video)

Usability

• Usability.gov
• User Interface Engineering – Jared Spool
• Alert Box – Jakob Neilsen

Coding

• Lissa Explains It All – While this site promotes itself as a site to help kids learn HTML, there’s a lot of good stuff here for anyone learning HTML. In particular, I love the color slider in the site. This is a site worth checking out.

Copyright and Intellectual Property

• U.S. Copyright FAQs
• Creative Commons Licenses

Student Work

Group Project: Simple Sample Site Rewrite