Site useful Web sites and publications

We tell our students interested in multimedia creation that one primary way to learn creation is to study representative sites. Not all of these sites have features that a student would want to adopt. The lesson of some may be ? no way on my site. Others may offer guidelines on what to do or not to do, particularly as it relates to choices of color. For example, if a student wants to prepare a serious business Web site, then we refer them to serious sites such as IBM?s site that have owners that can spend serious money on testing out various choices.

Here are some sites we recommend.

Browse these sites on typology and use them as necessary. http://www.cmu.edu/cfa/design/kdg/kt/ind... http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdtypo.htm http://www.hypermedic.com/style/typog/se... http://www.hypermedic.com/style/fonts/in... http://www.fontsnthings.com

Browse the virtual tours of http://www.toyota.com. Pay particular attention to IPIX technology and Apple panoramas.

Review, http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual and http://hometown.aol.com/ These sites give tips on how to design good sites.

Review http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imageed... This is a site that contains lots of information on images and graphics.

Review: http://webclipart.about.com. This can be a source for images to use in your projects.

Here are some Flash exampleshttp://www.cocacola.com/, http://www.figleaf.com/, http://www.digitalorganism.com/, http://www.flahoo.com/. Look at http://www.guggenheim.com/ and http://www.marvel.com/ as excellent illustrative examples on using Flash. Here are more Flash web sites: http://www.flashplanet.com/ , http://flashkit.com http://www.were-here.com/ http://www.ultrashock.com/ http://www.natzke.com/

Read up on usability. Try http://www.webreview.com/cgi-bin/atomz?q... Some sites that have gone a long way to be usable are: Study these existing examples http://www.smartplanet.com http://www.amazon.com http://www.chicago.tribune.com http://www.landsend.com http://crayon.net http://www.salon.com http://alphaworks.ibm.com http://www.nyt.com

Review http://bignosebird.com 's section on the subject of design.

Be sure to sample different kinds of streaming. Fox Sports online, http://www.foxsports.com , is a good site to do this. They use RealPlayerG2, Windows Media Player, and QuickTime.

Browse http://www.accuweather.com/ as an excellent example of streaming. You can customize this site for your personal weather use.

Check out http://www.earthcam.com/

Some newsletters of interest

ACM TechNews, timely topics for IT Professionals. .

Some technical publications of interest: CIT INFOBITS. Ed. Carolyn Koltas. Monthly selection of information technology sources. . SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. . SIGCOMM: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Communications. . SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics. . SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work. . SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. . SIGMIS: ACM Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems. . SIGMM: ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia. . SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web. .

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