Short introduction
When you do anything publicly on the web, you should be aware that there are certain basic style guidelines that you should observe. In a way this is not much different than observing specific formatting requirements when writing a paper for publication. By putting something on the web, you are publicizing, and so you should follow generally-accepted standards.
What you must do in this unit
- Read Rosenzweig Getting Started and Designing for the History Web.
- Read this week's note on Building a Web Culture (Style Design Standards).
- Watch the video on Building a Web Culture (Style Design Standards and HTML 5).
- Web Accessibility (ADA guidelines) are an important consideration for any web project. There are many tools available to check on accessibility guidelines.
- Check out some web design information.
- Web Style Guide, 4th ed.
- 4 Key Principles of Website Design
- W3C Web Standards
- Of course, there is my very old now The New Web Design Center (This is a very old project that I no longer maintain and which was once located on a NOVA web server.)
- The use of color is an important part of successful web design. Check out: Colors on the Web.
Submit
- Post on your blog (5 points): (a) When you work on your blog, try using some different style examples (subheads for sections, a numbered list, an unnumbered list, bold or italicized words, a link, and an image) and explain your revisions; (2) comment on the importance of style considerations from your reading this week in Rosenzweig and the style websites. Please let me know in Canvas when you have posted so that I can grade.
Extra credit options
- Please suggest any online materials relevant to this unit of the course.
Unit learning objectives
- Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to (1) describe key principles of good web design and (2) demonstrate a level of familiarity with the software tools frequently used for the design of digital historical materials.