jou 330: Web Publishing & Design

Reading Outlines:

• January 29: Chapter 6: Layout and Chapter 5: The Homepage.
• February 5: Chapter 11: Text Appearance, Chapter 14: Graphics, Images, and Multimedia, and Chapter 10: Links.
• February 12: Chapter 16: Content Organization and Chapter 9: Headings, Titles and Labels.
• February 19: Chapter 4: Hardware and Software and Chapter 7: Navigation.
• March 19: Chapter 18: Usability Testing.

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2/5/2007 Supplements: Bad Designs

• http://www.longscycle.com/
• http://www.hrodc.com/
• http://msdewey.com/
• http://www.gogofrog.com/vtrcomau/
• http://cyberatlas.guggenheim.org/home/index.html
• http://www.globalaigs.org/
• http://www.optimalworld.com/
• http://www.saltinstitute.org/
• http://www.ferreestools.com/
• http://www.wetestit.com/

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2/12/2007 Assignment 1

• Our first in class graded assignment (PDF)

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2/19/2007 Assignment 2

• Finish Assignment 1.
• Our second in class graded assignment (PDF)

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3/19/2007 Assignment 3 & 4, Final Projects

• ISO 13407 (PDF)
• Evidence Based Design (PDF)
• Audience Targeting (PDF)
• Assignments 3/4 (MS Word)
• Final Project (MS Word)

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• META TAGS: check out the source code on the home page of this website to get an idea for how meta tags are written.
• Example of meta tags copied from home page:

  <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="web design, JOU 330, web publishing, University of Kentucky">  
  <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Course website for JOU 330 Web Publishing and Design">  
  <META NAME="Subject" CONTENT="web publishing and design">  
  <META NAME="Classification" CONTENT="Internet">  
  <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Robert J. Trader">  
  <META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="© 2007 Robert J. Trader">  
  <META NAME="Contact" CONTENT="rjtrad2@uky.edu">  
  <META NAME="Publisher" CONTENT="RJT">  
  <META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="ALL">  
  <META NAME="Distribution" CONTENT="Global">  
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="en">  
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">