Introduction to Multimedia - Communication 337

Resources

color | dreamweaver | inspiration | photoshop | cascading style sheets | web stats & issues

Lab Open Hours

The Crawford Hall 212 lab now has open lab hours as follows:

Color

Color Matters

If you ever wanted to develop a deeper appreciation of color, this web site is the place. Color Matters is a comprehensive site that details the art and science of color http://www.colormatters.com.

Color Blindness

Color blindness or color vision deficiency affects approximately 8% of males and 0.1% of females in the world and, contrary to popular opinion, does not merely make colors appear as shades or gray. To see how your web pages or images will look, or to modify your images to appear better to people with color vision deficiencies, or to learn more about color blindness, visit Vischeck's excellent site.
http://www.vischeck.com/

A variety of color tool or information links follows:

Color Blender

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/

Color Schemes

http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/05/14/colour_schem/

Color Wheel

http://css.geckotribe.com/colorwheel/

Color Scheme Generator 2

Includes an interactive tool for viewing color schemes under simulated "color blind" conditions.
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

Color Schemer Online v2

http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html

Kuler

Adobe Kuler is a web-hosted or standalone application for generating color themes; you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.
http://kuler.adobe.com/

Luescher-Color-Diagnostic

The Luescher-Color-Diagnostic purports to measures "a person's psycho-physical state, his or her ability to withstand stress, to perform, and to communicate." You can now try an online version of this tool at the official Luescher site.
http://www.colourtest.ue-foundation.org/kolory/kolor-index2.html

Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature

http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/natural_selections_colors_found_in_nature_and_interface_design.php

Poynter Institute Color in Journalism

http://poynterextra.org/cp/colorproject/color.html

Dreamweaver CS3

Many resources exist on-line for getting the most out of Dreamweaver. Among these are Adobe's Developer Center (complete with great tutorials), and their company sponsored newsgroup.

Finally, two other great sources for Dreamweaver add-ons and tutorials are Massimo Foti's Massimo's corner of the Web and Al Sparber and Gerry Jacobsen's Project Seven.

Inspiration

Tutorials for setting up preferences in Inspiration 7 and for creating outlines and sitemaps in the programs are now available in the Inspiration tutorials section of this site.

Photoshop CS3

A page of essential Photoshop shortcuts and a collection of tutorials are available in the Photoshop section of this web site.

A mind-bogglingly-great set of free video tutorials is available for viewing and for downloading to your computer or video iPod from Russell Brown, Photoshop master and Senior Creative Director at Adobe.

Lots of tips and tricks for Photoshop — versions 5.0 through CS3 — can be found on Adobe's Photoshop pages and also on Julieanne Kost and Daniel Brown's excellent adobeevangelists.com site.

VersionTracker

I highly recommend VersionTracker for finding the latest releases of Macintosh and Windows software. If you find a later version of any of the products shown above, let me know and I'll update the list.

Cascading Style Sheets & Other Web Display Issues

For excellent discussions on the merits and demerits of using Cascading Style Sheets you can't do better than to visit Jeffrey Zeldman's A List Apart or his zeldman.com site, or John Allsopp's Westciv.

BlueRobot.com has a nice selection of CSS page layouts in its Layout Reservoir section.

Digital Web Magazine is a great online magazine intended for professional web designers.

Big John and Holly Bergevin at http://www.positioniseverything.net provide great information on CSS and links to some of the top CSS sites on the web. Highly recommended.

Web Statistics & Issues

Interested in who is using what gear to surf the net? Although the validity of statistical information concerning web use is subject to endless debate and qualification, you have to start somewhere. These sites are as good as any for getting your search for stats started.

Please remember to carefully study the manner in which their data were collected and to use the information you gather as a general guide, not as the final word on the subject.