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).
- The typography crash course. A new tool for generating typographic CSS.
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
- A discussion of site structure from the Yale design group (Patrick Lynch).
- The notoriousWeb Pages That Suck.
Plus you should start thinking about your website. It can be your portfolio, or an information site about a topic you know well. 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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