Internet Technology course

NB! This is a special self-study course, not intended for wider use

Tasks

• HTML dummy pages (15 oct)
• Server side python cgis (15 nov)
• JSON (15 dec)

Initial reading on UI design principles

• J. Spolsky. User Interface Design For Programmers.
• J. Spolsky. It's Not Just Usability
• B. Tognazzini. First Principles of Interaction Design.
• N. Stephenson. In the beginning was the command line.

Useful reading

Browser UI design principles

• classics: style and structure of a web page text
• Great design: draft of the new Spolsky book
• visual style currently in (2006) plus a similar story

Core browser tech (html,css,javascript)

Introductory stuff

• html intro part 1
• html intro part 2
• css intro

Crucial tutorials

• HTML tutorial
• CSS tutorial
• Javascript tutorial 1
• Tutorial: javascript + css + html

Official specs:

• HTML 4.01
• First CSS intro
• CSS

Additional CSS and javascript tutorials:

• Westciv CSS book
• Westciv CSS tutorial
• CSS edge
• CSS Zen garden
• A list apart
• Differences between browsers
• a large collection of tutorials and tips
• htmldog: html ja css tutorials and handbooks

Tips, tricks and cool stuff

• perfect list-based menu/tabs/etc design examples from listamatic,
• a large number of cool categorized pure css demos with explanations
• 10 css tricks
• mastering Ajax: see also links at the end
• Yahoo UI library