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TT280 - Web Applications: Design, Development and Management

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STUDY GUIDE: Week 5 URLs

Top Ten Design Mistakes: http://www.razorfish.com
Web Page Design for Designers: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
Browser usage graph: http://www.wpdfd.com/index.htm
On-line activity: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2002/March/browser.php
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
Cyber Atlas provides a rich variety of reports and articles covering many aspects of Internet activity: http://cyberatlas.internet.com/
http://www.acnielsen.ca/
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/

Open University TT280 Course Team Recommended Reading Week 5:
Reiss,!E.L.!(2000)! Practical!Information!Architectur ,!Addison-Wesley,!ISBN!0-201-72590-8.
Rosenfeld,!L.!and!Morville,!P.!(1998)! Information!Architectur ,!O’Reilly,!ISBN!1-56592-282-4.



STUDY GUIDE: Week 4 URLs

Home Page for Jakob Nielsen's book: http://www.useit.com/homepageusability/
Interview with Jacob Nielsen: http://www.nmk.co.uk/JakobNielsen/
The Usable Web Site: http://www.usableweb.com/
Designing a Business Web Site: http://www.wilsonweb.com/webmarket/design.htm (or this one is perhaps more relevant - http://www.wilsonweb.com/cat/cat.cfm?page=1&subcat=ms_Design)


References used in Week 4:
Reiss, E.L. (2000) 'Practical Information Architecture', Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-72590-8
Nielsen, J. and Tahir, M (2001) 'Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed', New Riders, ISBN 0-7357-1102-X

Open University TT280 Course Team Recommended Reading Week 4:
Nielsen, J. and Tahir, M (2001) 'Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed', New Riders, 2001, ISBN 0-7357-1102-X (cost approx £22)
Week 3:
Niederst, J.. (2001) 'Web Design in a Nutshell', 2nd Edition, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00196-7 (http://www.oreilly.com/)
Spainhour, S. and Eckstein, R. (1999), 'Webmaster in a Nutshell', 2nd Edition, O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-325-1 (http://www.oreilly.com/)



STUDY GUIDE: Week 3 URLs

US Federal Govt. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998: http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/508standards.htm
World Wide Web Consortium - W3C: http://www.w3c.org
HTML 4.01: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
XHTML 1: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
Center for Applied Special Technology - CAST: http://www.cast.org
BBC Education BETSIE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie/about.html
Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF: http://www.ietf.org and http://www.ietf.org/newcomer/frame.htm



STUDY GUIDE: Weeks 1 & 2 URLs

"Here are some household name sites that you can investigate. Remember that you are looking for the strengths and weaknesses of the site as a web application. So the sort of features you might look for include ease of use, navigation, structure, graphics and text layout, etc." (taken from TT280 Study Guide Resources)

AOL http://www.aol.com/
AMAZON books on-line http://www.amazon.com/
TESCO on-line shopping http://www.tesco.com/
VIRGIN airlines http://www.virgin.com/
HSBC Banking http://www.hsbc.co.uk/