Recources
Book (coding)
The following book is essential and needs to be purchased either from the UIC bookstore of Amazon (around $15):
HTML&CSS, design and build websites
recommended from the same author:
JavaScript and jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
Books (design)
Damien Gautier, Claire Gautie: Design, Typography etc.: A Handbook
Ellen Lupton: Graphic Design: The New Basics
Emil Ruder: Typographie: A Manual of Design
Article (design)
An excellent article related to this class by Paul Rand: "Design and the Play Instinct"
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning online video courses are free for UIC students. Go to this page, click the link "Access LinkedIn Leaerning" and login with your UIC credentials.
Dreamweaver CC Essential Training (Please take a look at "2. Managing Projects" in particular}
HTML Essential Training
CSS Essential Training
w3schools Coding Reference
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/
Download 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)