Web Development
DART 230

• Typography site of the day from:
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Today’s topics are a last look at typography, and site usability, with an emphasis on navigation. For usability and navigation, re-read HTML & CSS Chapter 18 (process and design).

Here is a summary page of my Top 12 Tips for using type on the Web. To understand @font-face {} see p. 277, in HTML & CSS.And here is Sitepoint on six basic type errors to avoid online.

Some navigation resources:

• One way to define what Usability means is to look at the Table of Contents from Jakob Nielsen’s Designing Web Usability
• Something related from Web Developer’s Virtual Library
• A list of ten devices from jessett.com
• A discussion of site structure from the Yale design group (Patrick Lynch).
• Here’s a series of examples from Lehigh University (Design- Navigation Examples) that show how navigation is thought through.
• The notoriousWeb Pages That Suck.

Plus the assignment is up for your Personal Web Page. Take a look and start thinking about a design. Note that you will be linking 5 or 6 pages together with local, or relative URLs, as opposed to absolute URLs (see HTML & CSS p. 79).

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