Annotated Bibliography
Jones's page is too wordy, but I really like the floating penguin. Maybe someday I'll be able to make floating graphics!
Alison Duncan Design: A Site for Soaring Eyes
One of the VisCom professors recommended this resume page to all the grad students in the journalism school. She has a great sense of design. Everything is really clean.
Mann Enterprises, Russian Translation & Interpretation by Natalya Mann, Ph.D. (linguistics)
This site features a photo gallery of images of Russia and Mann's professional resume. Each photo is accompanied by a paragraph of text, and the pages are formatted so no scrolling is necessary, but in order to move to the next photo, a user has to return to the index page.
Russian Culture with Linda DeLaine
This site is really busy. It has too many things to do. However, she has collected an impressive number of links, and provides useful information for travelers. I was suprised to see how many people are participating in the discussion forums.
This site by a Russian Web designer has a Photoshop tutorial. It promises regular updates, but I'll have to see if that's really true. It's not. He has the same advice in December as he did in October. The site has both Russian and English versions. They are not the same.
useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website and Jakob Nielsen. Designing Web Usability (Indianapolis, 2000).
I have tried to use some of the Nielsen principles in designing my Web site. I bought the book after Professor Jones spoke to our class. (By the way, that was a good session. I got a lot out of it.) I know I didn't always succeed in getting images to download as fast as Nielsen says, they should, but his ideas were guiding many of my decisions.
Interesting note about writing for the Web: I think that users in different languages will read differently on the Web. Russians can tolerate a lot bigger blocks of text than Americans can. Look at Julia's home page and her site on Christian literature for a taste of text blocks. (I just looked at these sites. Julia's home page works, but the URL that got me to the literature site this morning is now going somewhere else entirely, alas.)Russians can also tolerate longer movies and longer stationary shots in film. I read once that Americans get restless after about 11 seconds. Russians can probably go longer than 20 seconds.
Dick Oliver. Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours (Indianapolis, 1998).
Oliver suggested using text-based navigation tools instead of graphical navigation bars. I like this as a reference for HTML.
J. Tarin Towers. Dreamweaver for Windows and Macintosh (Berkely, CA, 2000).
This is a good reference work. I have not scratched the surface yet.
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