Cohen & Rosenzweig, Digital History, Ch. 2, 4, Appendix
Case Studies on Podcasting:
- To find out more about podcasts start with this tutorial.
- There are many, many podcast directories and finding tools out there. Here are just three of the more popular ones that, unlike iTunes, don’t require a software download:
Studio: How to create podcasts- Odeo’s Studio – online recording studio.
- Beginner’s guide to Podcasts & Creating Podcasts
- How to podcast tutorial
- Apple’s Garageband comes ready to record and share podcasts in easy steps.
- especially for museums: Museum Pods
- Museum podcasts
Further Resources on Web page design:
Top Ten Mistakes in Academic Web Design
Larry Gales, “Web Page Design Inspired by Edward Tufte”
March 6, 2010 at 3:15 AM
Tufte has some very sound ideas on web design that give me reasons for some completely impossible sites out there that are hard to track down what you need. Clarity with consistent colors and methods of linking to data will help as well and I look forward to trying his ideas on navigation.
March 7, 2010 at 3:50 PM
Digital History’s chapter on “Designing for the Hitory Web” similarly to Tufte’s article describes the attributes essential to preparing a web site. The Hierarchal method with 1st page leading to several like a family tree would is a common functional way of setting one up. Use of white or pale background with black text and color used for highlighting special information or leads to other pages makes sense especially to a historian who has much to explain and site. This presentation method gives ease of accessibility even to those with disabilities. Unknown to me was that different browsers see print differently and may present one’s data in strange form or cut it off if not centered properly or too near a photograph. This also means ease of printing can result. The limited use of graphic elements is encouraged to again keep the interest on the site without distraction. The web site examples were terrific and the use of thumbnails which I’m not sure how to do makes sense. Another new piece of information is to use lower case letters with only underscores and dashes as the only symbols in the directory and file names so all computers will have easy access. All the web site examples were amazing although beyond me right now but excite my hope for accomplishing something as well made.