Additional Resources
Document Actions
Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint in the Classroom
This tutorial was designed for teachers. The classroom examples aren't great, but the step-by-step nature can be a useful guide - however, all the examples are for PowerPoint 97 on Windows OS, so specific steps may need to be modified for your situation.
Designing an Influential Presentation by Ellen Finkelstein
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop color scheme template
A .psd file that allows you to change the background layer to get mathematically derived schemes.
Photoshop Tips and Tricks
A laundry list of things to do with photoshop.
Extensions for Photoshop
A variety of files that add functionality to photoshop.
Adobe GoLive
Site Brainstorming
Brainstorming is a valuable tool to help begin to visualize and organize content for a Web site. Click here for a printable Site Brainstorm guide (PDF).
Transferring Files with Fetch
Fetch is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program for macs. Click here for a printable guide to using Fetch (PDF).
Multiple Topics & Misc. Issues
- Visibone
Excellent references, both web-based and tree-base, for many web-based technologies, including: color, xhtml, css, and javascript. (Also has phenomenal customer service!) - BBC - Websites alienate Firefox users
An article reporting on an assessment of website accessiblity (not 508 accessibility) within a new standards-compliant browser. - Web Style Guide
Describes the process of designing a web site. Based on a pulp-based book.
XHTML 1.0
- W3C - XHTML 1 Specification
The actual specification - W3C - Markup Validation Service
A service provided by the W3C that allows you to enter either a url or upload an html page and validate it. (for use with html and xhtml pages) - Hudson Valley Community College - XHTML tutorial
A tutorial starting with the history of html and xhtml and progressing through the basics of xhtml 1.0, includes good code examples.
CSS
- W3C - CSS
Summary of current work and links to the current CSS specifications - W3C - CSS Validation Service
A service provided by the W3C that allows you to enter a url, upload a css page, or enter css code and validate it. - PennState's Computing with Accents, Symbols & Foreign Scripts - Safe Font Specs with CSS
If you are developing websites that include different character sets, your choice of font becomes more important than just a look and feel. - CSS Tutorial
Yet another tutorial - CSS Tutorial
Yet another tutorial - CSS Zen Garden (Gemination by Egor Kloos)
The best demonstration I've seen of CSS. (not a tutorial) - Wikipedia entry
The wiki based gratis encyclopedia entry on CSS - CSS Layout
A site on using CSS for layout, which includes templates for the most common layouts. - CSS Creator
A web-based CSS generator
- Web-Safe Colors
This is just one of many available tables of websafe colors. - Return of Design - Color Schemes
Useful combinations of colors. - Color Scheme Theory
A good page describing color theory - Natural Selections
Describes another approach to selecting a color palette. - Vischeck
(Not to be confused with VisiBone!) A site with information on colorblind related web-technology, including a visualizer for checking webpages and digital images.
Apple iMovie
Apple's Tutorial
Apple's tutorial to iMovie
University of Texas iSchool
A beginners tutorial
University of Vermont
Another iMovie tutorial
