Resources
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
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- Conferences
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- MinneWebCon
is a full-day, three-track, continuing education conference for Web professionals.
This conference delivers a practical blend of technical and creative information
from industry practitioners and educators directly to University staff, students,
and colleagues from other higher education institutions (as well as from other noncommercial
and commercial areas of web practice).
- Desktop Publishing
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- Dreamweaver
- Web design software from Adobe.
- Flash
- Flash is a software product from Adobe to create animation on webpages.
- FrameMaker
- Adobe FrameMaker is an authoring and publishing tool
- Frameusers is a list server for FrameMaker users
- Framescript provides FrameMaker scripting automation and customization
- Graphic Design
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- HTML
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- Open Source
- Freely distributed software
- Sourceforge.net
allows users to download and develop free open-source software
- Professional Training Workshops
- A fee is typically charged but there may be a lower student rate available.
- Software Training
- These providers offer a wide range of training opportunities on a broad selection of software systems.
- www.lynda.com
offers a huge number of training tutorials online for a reasonable fee of $25.00 per month
with other options available for longer contracts. They cover all the Adobe and Microsoft products
along with non-software package specific training classes.
- University of Minnesota
- U of MN free and short courses
- UTTC
- Free software courses for faculty, staff, and students from the University Technology Training Center.
- Free to CLA students only
- The College of Liberal Arts offers software courses to undergraduate students.
- U of MN Tutorials
- Microsoft E-Learning Courses
- These Microsoft classes cover the Microsoft Office Suite and require access from a Windows-based computer using Internet Explorer.
- U of MN Credited Course
- Usability
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- Boxes and Arrows
is a blog that discusses design, frequently with a user-centric viewpoint
- Hot Tub
is a blog from Hotstudio, a people-centered design studio
- MNteractive
is a local community of user experience practitioners. They also have started a UX book club.
- Slashdot
aggregates news items from across the net and allows searching by keyword.
This link uses the keyword "Usability" to bring together information for this category.