Recources

Book (coding)

The following book is essential and needs to be purchased either from the UIC bookstore of Amazon (around $12):
HTML&CSS, design and build websites

Books (design)

Emil Ruder: Typographie: A Manual of Design
Ellen Lupton: Graphic Design: The New Basics

Article (design)

An excellent article related to this class by Paul Rand: "Design and the Play Instinct"

Online Tutorials/Training (coding)

Lynda.com online video courses are free for UIC students. Go to this page, click the link in to top section of the page ("login to lynda.com") and login with your UIC credentials.

Dreamweaver essentials (Please take a look at "2. Managing Projects" in particular}
HTML Essential Training
CSS Fundamentals

w3schools.com Is an excellent reference site that also contains helpful, short tutorials. Always have this site open in a tab and use the search bar in the upper right corner to look up code, tags etc. in case you forgot what they mean or how exactly to write them.

Sections/Tutorials

HTML: https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
CSS: https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
Javascript: https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp
jQuery: https://www.w3schools.com/jquery/default.asp

Other tutorials (coding):
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlintermediate/
http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssintermediate/

http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/html-css-beginners-guide

Videos (coding)

Video introductions to HTML and CSS:
Introduction to CSS (1 clip, 208 MB)
Intro to HTML, CSS, Typography, Positioning (7 clips, 376 MB)