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Web building

The resources on Web building are growing geometrically, along with everything else on the Web. Here is a way to make some sense of it all, with this compilation of annotated link collections, selected for quality and organized by topic.

Web authoring
Authoring tools, and a core set of reference sites.

HTML tutorials and resources
A selection from both within UT and offsite.

Information design
The emerging arena of information design has been described variously as sense-making and way-finding, strategies for communicating information, the structuring of information, and as the development of a new visual language.

Accessibility
Because designing a Web site accessible to the disabled requires special techniques and considerations, the lack of accessibility features in a site is usually not a sign of indifference to these issues, but rather a simple lack of awareness on how to do it. These resources will help.

Usability
There are those who see design and usability as opposing forces, but it is our view that the best design is usable design: both focus on users, their habits, and their expectations.

Instructional design
A collection of resources on instructional design as it relates to the Web and to courses with online and interactive components.

Designing Web sites for wireless access
The unwired Net is here. As personal digital assistants, such as the Palm and Handspring Visor, and Web-enabled cell phones become more popular, we'll see more sites enabled for these devices. See WebMonkey's Designing Sites for PDA's to learn about the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Markup Language (WML).

Streaming media
Explore streaming media possibilities on the UT campus. The growing bandwidth of computer networks, together with the more efficient use of that bandwidth, is making it possible to download and play media such as audio and video in real time. Included here is a cookbook for producing good video, and links to relevant resources. Here's a Webmonkey report on the streaming media scene, charting the courses of RealPlayer, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and that pesky MP3. See what UT undergrads are learning about streaming media in CIT staff-taught courses.

FileMaker
Expand your skills by sharing knowledge with FileMaker experts and other users. Learn about the FileMaker Professional Training Program and other classes and events, purchase training materials, exchange ideas via email lists and user groups

Interactive Multimedia Development
A UT site by Min Liu in the instructional technology program at the College of Education. The site provides useful information about learning theories, multimedia development process, design principles, and software programs related to interactive multimedia production and design.