Content is King
Thu, Feb 3, 2011
Class Overview
In this first class we discuss the important of content strategy on the web and survey web technologies associated with types of web content. We will also examine the topic of information architecture and talk about file structure.
Resources
- Presentation from class
- WaSP InterAct Curriculum
- Refresh Rockville
- Typekit - Open source and licensed typography service
- FontSquirrel - Open source web fonts for download
- Flickr Creative Commons Images
- Grooveshark - Streaming music online (was Flash, now HTML5)
- HTML5 Audio Tag
- Flash Audio Player
- Vimeo - Creative community and video hosting service
- Blip.tv - Video hosting services for commercial content
- JW Player - Flash and HTML5 Video Player
- Video with HTML5
- VideoJS - HTML5 Video Player
- Kristina Halvorson - Bringing content strategy to the web
- Content Strategy for the Web Book by Kristina Halvorson
- Information Architecture as an Extension of Web Design
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Homework
Gather content for a one page web site about yourself as a web designer. Your content must include a photo or graphic of yourself, a short bio, and examples of your work. You can gather the content as individual files or in a Word document.
