Blog site moving
I have purchased a new domain and have relocated the class weblog to it. Please visit: http://www.ccrifaculty.com. I have exported all past posts and comments from the COMI 1770 blog to the new one and will shut down the old blog shortly.
I am designing the new blog to be more of a web site with a blog component. The top-level pages from my faculty web have been recreated there and, eventually, I will remove those pages from my old faculty web and link to the new ones in my new domain. At some point, I expect my entire faculty web will reside within the new domain.
I will be posting the links to your Real Life Independent Challenges on the new site later today.
First Impressions Count in Website Design
Summary: Web designers have as little as 50 milliseconds to capture the interest of potential customers. Through the halo effect, first impressions can influence subsequent judgments of website credibility and buying decisions. [Read full article]
Expression Web Blog
Expression Web Help and News
Free Setting up Expression Web Ebooks
By Tina Clarke Microsoft MVP – Expression Web
By Setting up Expression Web you set the parameters by which you design your web sites, taking the time now, saves you grief in the future. Expression Web setup the right way can enhance your design experience and not only help guide you in the use of CSS but warn you of html errors as you create your template design and content.
Screen shots of sites through Unit K
Here are what your sites should look like as of Thursday night, 4/8/10:
35 Absolutely Useful Firefox Plugins For Web Designers And Developers
From “Kumar’s Blog” – August 2009:
Firefox is a very popular browser especially among web designers. There are more than 70% of WDB’s readers are using Firefox. There are few reasons which make Firefox so popular compare to others and obviously its plugins had contributed a lot for that. [Read more]
Student’s RLIC Web Sites – Fall 2008
Some more RLIC student web sites to look at. These are from Fall 2008 semester:
Color Scheme Designer Web Site
Thanks to Julie Novak and Rich Coren in the CCRI Marketing department, for another great link…
From http://lifehacker.com: If you’ve tried out web-based palette generators and been underwhelmed, you might want to take Color Scheme Designer for a spin. It combines the features of many other generators into a unique, easy-to-use palette creator.
On the surface it looks like many other virtual palette generators. Dig around, though, and you’ll quickly find features not commonly found in your average color tool.
You can generate single monochromatic, complimentary, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accented analogic color palettes. You can simulate color-based vision disorders to see how your design colors will look—they even list the percentage of people suffering from the disorders. A preview function populates a dummy web page with your color scheme, which is a handy tool for seeing how your selected colors look together off the palette.
While the page-simulator is a really great trick, the best feature of Color Scheme Designer is the ability to export your palette not just as a Photoshop palette—a common limitation of many web-based generators—but as HTML+CSS, XML, TXT, and GPL (the palette format for GIMP).
Color Scheme Designer is free and requires no signup.
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Screen shots for Unit G
Here are what your sites should look like as of tomorrow night, 3/11/10:
Final RLIC Projects from Spring’09
Just thought I’d share with you the links to last spring’s class Real Life Independant Challenges. These are as submitted on week 15 of the course.
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