Here’s a sampling of what was made for my office co-workers this year.
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Testing the length of the heading 1 tag
Here’s a post with tons of content. Let’s see how long it actually takes before the content cuts off… Here’s a post with tons of content. Let’s see how long it actually takes before the content cuts off… Here’s a post with…
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Wireframe Showcase
For my students who are having issues translating their wireframes to an actual design, check this site out: http://www.wireframeshowcase.com/ It shows the original wireframe that was proposed for site structure and hierarchy, and then overlays the final design on top.…
Web Design Infographic
Check this web graphic out from Six Revisions. It’s slightly comical, but also has some interesting points of information. The Original post can be found here: http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/what-your-web-design-says-about-you-infographic/
414 Awesome Design Squad
Start of a new semester
As the wind and cold descends on Oswego, I start up another semester at SUNY Oswego. This semester I will be teaching Web 1 – ART 317 as both a traditional and as a hybrid course, along with Web Design…
Dusting off the old theme
So I haven’t ran my class blog in many moons, as I switched providers and lost much of the content I had once posted on this blog. That and also moving onto ANGEL for most of the coursework. This semester/year…
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What makes a great cover letter
Found a really good article on cover letters that might be good for posting on your class website or on Angel http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/25/what-makes-a-great-cover-letter-according-to-companies/ haven’t read the whole thing yet but what I read was really good advice. Thanks Jon LaPlante
HTML 5 / CSS 3 Checklist
For those interested in HTML 5, here’s a nice checklist of items that are supported by the various browsers. http://www.findmebyip.com/litmus/#target-selector Note: Internet Explorer does not support much of anything with HTML 5 and CSS 3. It’s best to avoid using…
HTML 5
For those interested in HTML 5. Though we aren’t teaching it as of yet within the web curriculum, it does have some interesting new features to look into for future reference. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/04/designing-a-html-5-layout-from-scratch/ One thing to note: If you look at…
50 Useful CSS Coding Techniques
For those interested in pushing some of their CSS skills to the next level. There are some that utilize some Javascript/JQuery techniques as well for fluid layouts, or dynamic scrolling. Check it out! http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/02/18/50-css-and-javascript-techniques-for-layouts-forms-and-visual-effects/
CSS 3
Here’s a quick overview on CSS 3 and it’s features. We will be writing CSS 1 and 2 code, as it is universally supported by all browsers that we talk about. CSS 3 still has little support among all of…
Remember
When you install a new WordPress blog, to make sure that you are using a database that doesn’t have anything in it already. Sadly, I lost 1 1/2 years of blog posts just because I decided that I could reuse…