Knowing some web development beyond blogging can be useful for creating a web site for teaching, to deploy digital humanities research, or to create a web-based assignment for students.
Thankfully, the web has a lot of free information available to teach both students and educators to learn how to create web sites.
Dive into HTML5 is an artfully designed book (online and in paper) that explains background and concepts of HTML5.
W3Schools is a useful reference guide as well as learning tool. They have sections for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the jQuery library. Their “Try it yourself” practice spaces are useful to test things out before committing things to your own page.
Eloquent JavaScript is an online book to teach JavaScript, which is useful for web programming, but is also a great start for learning programming in general. It is clearly written with example code throughout.
W3C’s CSS Articles and Tutorials have a lot of collected information about how to utilize CSS in your web design.
This article about responsive web design has good information for creating a flexible site that can be rescaled for browser windows on a desktop or laptop, as well as for mobile devices.
The New Boston has video tutorial sets on HTML5, XHTML and CSS, and CSS3.
Dev.Opera features many articles in web development topics for personal use, and is updated by users.
Don’t Fear The Internet is specifically designed for visual creative types, and is accessible to most non-tech people. It features a series of fun videos as well as documented information of what the videos cover.
As an undergraduate, I created a NYC neighborhood website as part of a group project, and a web development assignment for any course can be empowering for students if they have the right tools to guide them. Having a public dimension to the work they do in the class (if it is permissible) can add a new level to their college experience and a larger audience can add motivation to do good work that they may later want to share with friends online.
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