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Instructional Design Tutorial

eLearn Magazine: In-Depth Tutorials This article is “Instructional Design for Flow in Online Learning” by Sandra C. Ceraulo, Ph.D. There are other tutorials on the eLearn Magazine site as well.

Designing with Web Standards released

Zeldman: Designing With Web Standards Jeffrey Zeldman has a mini site in support of his new book, which is just released from New Riders. The mini site offers two free chapters for download.

I can’t wait to get my hands on this book, as the sample chapters are outstanding. Clicking the image at left will allow you to order it from Amazon.com. Even if Amazon thinks it is not available yet, it really is, and it should ship soon if you order it now.

Great CSS demo pages

css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design takes one page and transforms it into five diverse and beautiful pages using CSS. The HTML and CSS for each page are available for download and study. A very impressive demonstration of the power of CSS!

Tip: Downloading with OSX

I have been stymied by my Macs behavior when downloading since installing OS X. I would click on a download link and nothing would happen. If I used a Control-Click, I could select “Save this to disk” and download it that way. However, if the download button was an image, the only thing I could save with a Control-Click was the image, which meant I couldn’t download anything. I found the answer on Apple’s site. I needed to go into my System Preferences and set my Network settings to use passive FTP. It still behaves a little strangely, but it eventually downloads. Yes!

The Good and the Bad according to Robin Williams

Good and Bad Web Design Features Robin Williams, author of many great design books, including my personal favorite, The Non Designer’s Design Book has a section on her Web site that gives a quick summary of good and bad design features. It is a useful list!