HIST 697:
History & New Media

Thursday,

January 24

Discussion: Housekeeping & Introductions

Practicum: Structuring a Document

Thursday,

January 31

Reading: Working with XHTML & CSS

• Charles Wyke-Smith, Stylin’ with CSS

Internet Visits: CSS Tutorials, Templates & Tools

• Charles Wyke-Smith, Stylin’
• Luke Wroblewski, Who Are You?
• ProjectSeven, QuickDraw MacFly 2004
• Donald Norman, Attractive Things Work Better
• B. J. Fogg, How People Evaluate a Web Site’s Credibility

Practicum: Standards-Based/CSS Design

BLOG URL DUE

Thursday,

February 7

Reading: Typography

• Robin Williams, Non-Designers Book, Ch. 12

Internet Visits: Typography

• Erin Kissane, Typography Matters
• Jenny Lyn Bader,“Forget Footnotes, Hyperlink”
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, “Where Have All the Footnotes Gone?”
• Jean Baptiste Piggin, Macro-Typography: A Style Guide
• Paula Petrik, Scholarship on the Web: Managing Footnotes

Practicum: The Problem of the Footnote

PORTFOLIO HOME PAGE DUE

CSS PAGE DUE

Thursday,

February 14

Reading: One-Woman/One-Man Show

• Carrie Brickner, Web Design on a Shoestring

Internet Visits: More Standards-Based/CSS Design

• Ellen Lupton, Why DIY?
• Manan Ahmed, The Polyglot Manifesto Part 1 & Part 2
• Max Design, Listutorial & Floatutorial
• Accessify, List-o-Matic
• Evolt.org, Ten CSS Tricks You May Not Know
• Tantek Celik, Ten CSS Tricks—Corrected and Improved

Practicum: More Standards-Based/CSS Design

Thursday,

February 21

Presentations: Type Assignments

TYPE ASSIGNMENT DUE

Thursday,

February 28

Reading: Color

• Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations
• Robin Williams, Non-Designers Web Book, Ch. 9

Internet Visits: Color

• David Shea, Photographic Palette
• Ideabook, Tip Sheet: Color Strategy
• Luke Wroblewski, Natural Selections: Colors in Nature
• Clagnut, Compendium of Color Tools
• SiteProCentral, Color Scheme Chooser
• Sherwin Williams, Color Preservation Palette
• W3C, HTML Color Names
  ColorSchemer, 140 Named Colors

Practicum: Photoshop/Colorizing

Saturday,

March 1

Thursday,

March 6

Reading: Design

• Katrin Eismann, Photoshop Restoration and Retouching
• Robin Williams, Non-Designers Web Book, Ch. 10–11

Internet Visits: Useful Image Techniques

• Errol Morris, Which Came First, Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3
• Cameron Moll, That Wicked Worn Look
• Cameron Moll, Wornamental, Thornamental
• Matthew O’Neill, Super-Easy, Blendy Backgrounds
• Paula Petrik, Scholarship on the Web: Managing Engravings

Practicum: Photoshop/Engravings

Thursday,

March 13

NO CLASS (Spring Break)

Thursday,

March 20

Presentations: Image Assignments

IMAGE ASSIGNMENT DUE

Thursday,

March 27

Internet Visits: Accessibility

• Joe Clark, How Do Disabled People Use Computers
• WebAim, Screen Reader Simulation
• Mark Pilgrim, Dive into Accessibility
• Paul Bohman, An Accessible Method of Hiding HTML Content

Practicum: Photoshop/Advanced Stuff

Thursday,

April 3

Reading: Information Architecture

• Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think
• Robin Williams, Non-Designers Web Book, Ch. 6–8

Internet Visits: Design

• Lawrence Lessig, How Creativity is Being Strangled (video)
• Hans Rosling, Debunking Third-World Myths (video
• Jakob Nielsen, Guidelines for Visualizing Links
• Luke Wroblewski, Visible Narratives
• Carole Guevin, Visual Architecture: The Rule of Three
• Douglas Bowman, A Design Process Revealed

Thursday,

April 10

Reading: Interactivity

• James Paul Gee, What Video Games Have to Teach Us

Internet Visits: Interactivity

• ASHP, The Lost Museum
• Adgame, Historic Tale Construction Set
• British Library, Turning the Pages
• Josh Brown et al., Forum: History & the Web (GMU online)
• Jakob Nielsen, Participation Inequality

Practicum: Interactivity Tools

Thursday,

April 17

Presentations: Design Assignments

DESIGN ASSIGNMENT DUE

Thursday,

April 24

Reading: Games as Learning

• J. P. Gee, Learning by Design: Games as Learning
• Niall Ferguson, How to Win a War

Playing: The Game’s Afoot

• Cyan, Myst IV: Revelation

Discussion: Myst IV: Revelation

Thursday,

May 1

Presentations: Web Projects

WEB PROJECTS DUE (preliminary)

Thursday,

May 8

WEB PROJECT DUE (final)

SELF-EVALUATION DUE