Tools and craft
DM3430A fall 2014 · GW Corcoran School of the Arts and Design
Instructor: David Ramos (davidramos@gwu.edu)
Resources about how to make projects.
Digital Publishing Suite
- Adobe DPS documentation hub
- Adobe DPS articles
- Concise explanation of fees/versions
- DPS interactivity examples (iPad app, free)
- What file format for overlays?
- Which InDesign interactive features work in DPS?
- DPS manual (PDF)
HTML/CSS
Basics
- Don’t Fear the Internet – video lectures by Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer
- WebPlatform.org docs – new, well-written, sleek, but still in alpha
- SitePoint CSS Reference and HTML Reference – great general references
- Stack Overflow is a good source for answers to small questions – follow search results that point there
More in-depth
- Mozilla Developer Network for HTML and CSS
- HTML5 Doctor
- HTML entities (special characters)
- Can I Use – browser compatibility tables
- QuirksMode – browser compatibility tables
- Learn CSS Selectors Interactively
Responsive design and HTML/CSS media queries
- Ethan Marcotte: Responsive Web Design (the seminal article)
- Sitepoint on media queries
- Smashing Magazine on media queries
- Responsive navigation patterns
- Responsive navigation
- This is responsive (“Patterns, resources and news for creating responsive web experiences”)
- Gridpak (graphical tool for building responsive grids)
Publishing systems
Tools, images, and media sources
- Text-to-HTML converter
- Noun Project (icons)
- Iconic (icons)
- Fontello (font icon creator)
- Maki (map icons from MapBox)