HCI 201: Multimedia and the World wide Web
Resources

General web building resources:

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/index.html
has all sorts of tutorials, resources and even an html 'cheat sheet'.

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
another site with free tutorials about all things web development.

http://www.useit.com/
a usability resource

http://www.tucows.com
freeware, shareware etc for downloading

http://www.macromedia.com/
home to all sorts of tools including flash- you can download trial versions of the apps

http://www.adobe.com/
adobe products- another company that makes what is considered 'standard' in terms of web design/development tools for the industry. Again you can download trial versions for free.

A list of tools discussed in class:

Articles discussed in lecture

This is a list of links to other pages specifically dealing with HCI related materials, as well as sites of interest to help you with the unfamiliar.

• www.useit.com Jacob Nielsen's Website on usable information technology.
  
  
• The DePaul HCI Info mailing list it is what the title says- a DePaul list serve and Website related to HCI info such as jobs and internships.
  
  
• Dictionary.com the place to go to look up unfamiliar words
  
  
• Webopedia the place to go to look up unfamiliar IT terms
  
  
• Useable web is "a collection of links about information architecture, human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the World Wide Web.
  
  
• http://whatis.techtarget.com/ This site has been recommended as an all around technical resource.
  
  
• UIEweb "getting development teams the information they need to make design decisions".
  
  
• The association for computing machinery - an amazing resource devoted to all aspects of computing with specific special interest groups devoted to everything under the sun. "Founded in 1947, ACM is the world's first educational and scientific computing
  society."
  
  
• How to do a heuristic evaluation
  
  
• 2nd article on how to do a heuristic evaluation
  
  
• How to do a cognitive walk through
  
  
• 2nd article on how to do a cognitive walk through

Justifying usability- articles about the importance of usability or arguments for usability

• Automatic for the user
  
  
• Websites that work