Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Free PDF about online journalism
“Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive, A digital literacy guide for the information age”, by Mark Briggs (Assistant Managing Editor for Interactive News, The News Tribune)
PDF English version now available for download; also available in Spanish or Portuguese. You can also order hard copies.
Topics include: Chapter 1: FTP, MB, RSS, Oh My
Chapter 4: New Reporting Methods
Chapter 6: How to Report News for the Web
Chapter 7: Digital Audio and Podcasting
Chapter 8: Shooting and Managing Digital Photos
Chapter 9: Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories
Chapter 10: Basic Video Editing
Chapter 11: Writing Scripts, Doing Voice-overs
For continuing discussion of new technology for journalists, check out Mark Briggs’ Journalism 2.0 site.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Free e-book on website design and usability from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Throughout your Web design or redesign project, you should take advantage of what is already known about best practices for each step of the process. The Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines (PDF, 20.64MB) brings you these best practices compiled through an extensive process of research and review. (From usability.gov)
You can also download specific sections of the book:
- design process and evaluation (PDF - 1.9MB)
- optimizing the user experience (PDF - 9.1MB)
- accessibility (PDF - 2.4MB)
- hardware and software (PDF - 2.8MB)
- the homepage (PDF - 12.1MB)
- page layout (PDF - 21.9MB)
- navigation (PDF - 13.1MB)
- scrolling and paging (PDF - 4.5MB)
- headings, titles, and labels (PDF - 7.8MB)
- links (PDF - 17.1MB)
- text appearance (PDF - 11.2MB)
- lists (PDF - 6.6MB)
- screen-based controls (widgets) (PDF - 15.1MB)
- graphics, images, and multimedia (PDF - 16.8MB)
- writing Web content (PDF - 11.0MB)
- content organization (PDF - 10.1MB)
- search (PDF - 9.1MB)
- usability testing (PDF - 1MB)
