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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.
Top 10 tips for a design agency/freelancer start-up
Thanks to classmate Stacyann O’Gorman for this link…
http://jakecoventry.com/top-10-tips-for-a-design-agencyfreelancer-sta
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
Thanks to Marketing & Communications officer (and previous Web Dev student) , Julie Novak for this helpful link:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/24/10-useful-usability-findings-and-guidelines/
Unit F Screen Shots
Here are how your sites should look after completing the Unit F assignments:
Book Erata
Thanks to classmate Ron Wilson for pointing out that the screen shots of the Memories site, which I created from files supplied by the book publisher, inaccurately depict the site’s font-family as it would have been after Unit E.
Firstly, the site in the screen shot for Unit E is showing a sans-serif font-family has been applied –specifically, “Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif“. However, the book does not instruct you to assign a font-family to the site until Unit F so, to be accurate as of Unit E, the body font should be the default of “Times New Roman“.
Also, note that in Unit F, when you are instructed to add a font-family, it is left up to you which font-family to add so, if you choose not to use the abovementioned family, your site will not match the screen shots exactly –which is perfectly OK.
Watch for Unit F screen shots coming soon.
Sites that tests your site against different types of color-blindness
Here are a couple of sites that show what your site will look like to people with a variety of color blindness.
More on the dreaded .lck file
In further research, I found that the “real” culprit is the “Frontpage.lck” file. Those “service.lck” files get created every time we publish so, I don’t think you need to remove those –just any “frontpage.lck” files you find. I think frontpage.lck files only get created when you use FTP to publish to a site which uses FrontPage Server Extensions to publish via HTTP (such as the CCRI site) so, provided you stay away from FTP for this class, you shouldn’t see them being generated.
Please let me know if you do see these reoccurring.
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