English 398/529: Resources to help you out
Food for thought
The UCLA Center for Communications Policy Internet Survey Report (good for demographics research!)

Talking Structure (Jeffrey Zeldman's "HTMHell" Column)

Glossaries and Dictionaries
The Epiphany Glossary of Internet Terms

ZDWebopedia Dictionary of Computer Terms

Webopedia Internet Encyclopedia

Netiquette Guide

Semiotics for Beginners (learn about deconstruction here)

A Dictionary of Postmodern Terms

List of Critical Terms (learn about postmodernism here)

A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Web sites related to our books
Nostalgic Angels home page

Review of Nostalgic Angels by Mary Ann Eiler from Kairos 3.1

Userfirst reveiw of Nostalgic Angels by Scott DeLoach

"From Text to Hypertext" -- a section of Jean Mason's dissertation with overview of Nostalgic Angels

Web Site for Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days

Web Style Guide home page

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web home page

Secrets of Successful Web Sites home page

Free tools and guides
New!  Check out Zaplets, new tools for interactivity!

ZyWeb Web Tools

WebGFX Rendermachine Online Graphics Generator

Netstudio.com Web Graphics

Free Webmaster Tools

Designers on Design: Lance Arthur and Jason Kottke (Thanks to Matt!)

"In Praise of Sloppy HTML" by Andrew Starling, with links to Andrew King's "Extreme HTML Optimizations" (Thanks to Matt!)

Bookmarklets: The Littlest Next Big Thing (Thanks to Matt!)

Jacob Nielsen's "Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design" with links to 1999 and 2000 updates (Thanks to Matt!)

Web Accessibility Guidelines from Bobby

E-quill Web Page Markup Tool (free!)

Vincent Flanders' Web Pages that Suck (check out what NOT to do!)

Best of the Web!

Research Buzz site.  Great info about search engines and searching! (Thanks to Matt!)


Sites that explore the future of webbed writing

"The Real E-Books" by Steve Ditlea (thanks to Frank!)

Hamlet on the Holodeck site (thanks to Frank!)

Student Stories from Janet Murray's Class at MIT (thanks to Frank!)

PlasticMonkey (Thanks to Matt!)

Glide

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

Electronic Literature Organization

Mark Amerika's Grammatron

The Center for Digital Storytelling

Blogger: Push Button Publishing for the People (thanks to Matt!)

MetaGrrrl Proposal on Documentation of the Design Process in Online Environments (Thanks to Matt)

Tomalak's Realm: Daily Links to Strategic Web Design News (Thanks to Matt!)

Journals

Journal of Electronic Publishing

New Media Studies

Computers and Composition Online

Kairos, A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments

Language Learning and Technology

Pre/Text

Humor

The future of the book?  Great example of tech writing humor!

Be sure to send me your favorite links to share with the class!


Last updated March 28, 2001
by Michael Day