Workshop: Digital Humanities and Web Design

The Digital Humanities and Web Design workshop is the complement to the multimedia publishing course and is particularly recommended for those who want to graduate from the discipline. The training objectives are as follows: to provide the student with an in-depth knowledge of the professional tools useful to operate today in the field of multimedia publishing, with a special attention to web design and the creation of digital multimedia ebooks and magazines (tools all open source and/or usable for free); put into practice, with useful vertical insights, the main theories related to digital publications and the wider sector of Digital Humanities.

By the end of the workshop the student will have to have an adequate measure of Knowledge and Skills and will be able to use some working tools:
Knowledge: Digital Storytelling, HTML5 and CSS Encoding Fundamentals; Languages for commercial publishing: Epub3. Web Design Fundamentals: Usability, Information Architecture, Responsive Web Design.
Skills: Designing and building static and dynamic websites, designing eBooks and multimedia magazines.
Tools: Web Design: WordPress; EBook: PubCoder, ViewPorter, or IbooksAuthor2; Digital Storytelling: Shorthand.