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Column theme :: Liquid layout with four columns on the home page ::
Paparazzi App for Mac OS X :: This small app allows you to enter a Web address and then save a PNG graphics file of the whole page - screen grabs that are a couple of thousand pixels high. ::
Kubrick with white background :: Change two image files in the default WordPress theme to produce a white page area with sparse header image. I wanted a high key look with plenty of space and no 'boxes'. ::
Your name on toast :: Auctioning the fold for charity. These people will write your name on toast, then photograph it and then put the toast and a link to a site you nominate on their page. The rounds of toast are listed in descending order of contribution. All proceeds go to charity. They are auctioning the space above the fold - well neat. ::
Liquid layout or 960px width? :: Many people now use 1024 by 768 or slightly narrower as a screen resolution. 960px has been suggested as a width to design to as it has a lot of factors and allows a range of grid sizes. ::
River of News :: Minimalist pages show just the news stories as they update ::
GCSE Map finished (well, begun) :: Now I have the topics mapped, it is time to start adding bits of content ::
MSIE Beta 7 :: Tabbed browsing and RSS feeds in a side bar... ::
Seeing your content through someone else’s eyes :: Winner of recent BBC redesign contest does a Being John Malkovich ::
Flash: Consolidation :: This timeline is all my own work and I didn't look at the textbook... Lesson 2 and 3 applied to an animation showing how the area of a parallelogram is calculated... ::
Flash Lesson 2: Animation using motion tween :: If you have any version of the Flash Player from 5 upwards installed on your browser, then the yellow and blue grid above should show a blue square and a red triangle moving around and changing their opacity. The animation loops once and then stops, and the frame rate is 15 frames per second. According to [...] ::
Simple summer theme :: Simple template from Open Source Web Design can be adapted as a WordPress theme ::
Different kinds of Web site :: A list apart article provides a metric for Web sites and a classification: handy for Web page course. ::
Learn to Write :: Being able to express thoughts in writing is key to any career ::
Flash Lesson 1: drawing tools :: Flash Journalism by Mindy McAdams, lesson 1. Why is a maths teacher using a book aimed at journalists? ::
Processing applet maps HTML code :: Show the HTML mark up of a web page as a graph ::
Blogs and VLEs :: Does the blog act as a gateway to the VLE or does the VLE contain the blog? ::
Tuesday Whiteboard: reflections and edges :: We were looking at finding a value for the intercept of a straight line graph when the scale of the graph made it difficult to have an X axis that started at zero – we were setting up and solving a simple equation within a context. This second whiteboard processed using ScanR was taken in [...] ::
The one page Web site :: There is an interesting discussion about one page Web sites on the Signals vs Noise blog published by the Web programming company 37 Signals. I especially chimed with the comment by Geoff Harris “I agree with Wilson’s comments about distilling information down to the most basic requirements and leaving as is. Doing so is a fantastic exercise [...] ::
Moodle on a stick :: Moodle 1.53 and 1.6 can be 'installed' on a USB stick. Just make sure the drive letter assigned to the stick stays the same on each machine ::
Pictures for PowerPoints :: Yotophoto is a search engine for copyright free or free use images ::
blog.ac.uk :: Anyone going? ::
Prime number podcast :: BBC radio program about history looks at prime numbers ::
Cool or crap? :: Zeldman's article from 5 years ago asking for usability in web design is updated and given a new home - some change for better ::
Wikis in school :: MeatBall wiki page about educational uses of wikis and other links ::
MP3 interview - Simon Wheatley :: Podcast interviews - DIY Studs Terkel? ::
Dr Gonzo’s theme :: Wordpress theme uses tables layout with light styling and one main file ::
Digital divide: Southern Africa :: Some projects in Southern Africa aim to reduce the impact of the digital divide ::
Course planning: Tinderbox :: Tinderbox - soon for Windows - is worth the money, deep software ::
Writing for the Web: Paul Ford :: Use a spreadsheet to write each idea in a cell with a heading.... ::
Intellectual property blog :: Lawyer in Huddesfield uses Blogger to record case law ::
Audience :: Who are you writing your Web page for? Specify and pin down different audiences. ::
Changes in sites over time :: The big three e-commerce sites have moved to home pages with a lot of information and a high link density ::
Interactivity on Web pages :: Java applets and some DHTML Javascript can be used for educational purposes- and you don't have to code a line ::
HTML entities :: Maths on the Web is a problem - html entities can provide a limited range of symbols - and I like the immediacy of a blogging approach to Maths. Else it is down to PDFs or scans or Whiteboard captures. ::
Bodmas goes Jakob :: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the new Bodmas design is borrowed from Jakob Nielsen's personal site at http://useit.com/ ::
User focus with goals :: “Many sites submitted had no concern for the user on the most basic levels. Rarely could you identify an idea or purpose behind the site, or name a possible user goal the site was intended to facilitate. There was no flow, no legibility, no usability. It wasnt so much that the designers had contempt for [...] ::
Unusual writing style :: A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes) actually starts at Chapter 3. It has cartoons and an unusual style (for a programming book). A sample: “Most variables are rather temporary in nature. Some parts of your program are like little houses. You walk in and they have their own variables. In one [...] ::
Copyright free images :: LaTiS Centre Image Archive from Essex University Thanks for this resource – about 400 free pictures. Mostly .jpegs and around 400 to 600 pixels wide with white backgrounds. ::
Recent History (Web security) :: It all started in May of 2001. I began getting calls from companies I had tried selling security services to in the past but were never interested. Now they needed my help because something happened. It seemed like dozens of people had their websites defaced with the words: “fu*k USA Government, fu*k PoizonBOx.” It was [...] ::
300,000 Words :: “It seems like I wrote “Alertbox Five Years Retrospective” just yesterday, but another five years have passed. Since writing my first column in June 1995, I’ve published 247 columns comprising almost 300,000 words. That’s a lot of writing and a lot of content to give away on the Internet. Has it been worth the effort? [...] ::
Sense of place :: David Kolb has produced a hypertext essay on the nature of modern spaces in cities called Sprawling Places This hypertext has 100,000 words, 600 pages and 1,000 images The work is multiply linked and threaded by a number of outlines or themes It is possible for two (or more) people to ‘read’ the work in quite unconnected ways [...] ::
Map the Web :: The OPTE project provides views of the distribution of Internet connections and routes ::
Fierce blogging :: Performance arts event sets up a public blog to get audience feedback. ::
How Google works :: A couple of sites with information on the Mother of all Search Engines ::
Just Breathe (Zen of hacking?) :: Forensic ICT lesson Students searched for information about Adrian Lamo, the ‘homeless hacker’ Then we read page 3 and 4 of Marc Roger’s essay A New Hacker Taxonomy Students were invited to analyse aspects of Lamo’s ‘career’ using Rogers’ roles Disagreements! Arguments focussing on what the roles meant! Useful! Lamo’s minimalist home page provides an example of embedded hypertext – [...] ::
Web design interview :: Zeldman has this link to a Web designer called Joe Clark. Ten Questions for Joe Clark is a thought provoking piece in the style of a pop mag interview. Should get Web design students at least thinking about the issues. Mr Clark links to Techniques for Accessible HTML Tables And I definitely need a haircut – [...] ::
Colours :: An olive oil can leads to choice of colours ::
Apple and sweet papers :: “When researching new processes we often find ourselves working with different industries. It was interesting working with a confectionery manufacturer. Their experience in the science of translucent colour control helped us understand processes to ensure consistency in high volume.” From Jonathan Ive’s account of the 1998 iMac design (this would be the slot loader judging by [...] ::
Processing 1.0 β :: Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional [...] ::
Tinderbox :: Tinderbox is a note taking application for Mac OS X. A Windows version is in the works – in fact the author Mark Bernstein’s blog includes a link to his development peekhole for Tinderbox. Tinderbox has a range of powerful features for organising and visualising relationships between notes – such that I am going to try [...] ::
Children using the Web… :: The NFER has a long term project (started in 2002) tracking students’ experience of citizenship education. The most recent report is referenced as follows….CLEAVER, E., IRELAND, E., KERR, D. and LOPES, J. (2005). Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study: Second Cross-Sectional Survey 2004 Listening to Young People: Citizenship Education in England (DfES Research Report 626). London: DfES The [...] ::
Thinking with type :: Ellen Lupton’s book Thinking With Type is supported by a useful and thought provoking Web site. A table links to short pages of information on various concepts to do with typography and page layout, mainly for printed pages. The table columns move along a logical sequence of scales (Letter – Text – Grid). There is [...] ::
Being Analog(ue) :: Don Norman is the other half of Nielsen and Norman the usability consultants. He has provided Chapter 7 of his book The Invisible Computer as a Web reading. The title of the chapter is Being Analog – which we as humans are… You can also read other chapters on the MIT Press site and [...] ::
FTP upload script (perl) :: Andrew Hunter provided a simple and ingenious perl script that will ftp a directory’s worth of files to a remote Web server Well done that man This script worked fine on Windows under Active State perl and works (without modification) under Mac OS X using the perl that comes with Panther ::
MyMind mind mapper :: Sebastian Krauss provides MyMind 1.2 a small free outliner and mind mapping tool for the Mac OS X platform. Very simple and basic which actually makes it more useful than the all singing mind mappers around. MyMind can export its map views as Web pages with a client side image map coded in. Site maps like [...] ::
Short headings and summaries :: Gerry McGovern suggests (see Secrets of great Web headings ) Headings and titles less than 8 words, nearer 4 Summaries less than 30 words Online research indicates most summaries coming in at 17 words with a low of 10 and a high of 25 Idea for lesson activity: take typical Intranet news item text and write a page title [...] ::
216 colour cube :: “The Netscape palette for foreground colors usually (but NOT always) consists of all the combinations of 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF for each of the red, green, and blue elements of the color descriptor. This results in 216 (6×6x6) distinct colors.” – Victor Engel The Browser Safe Palette Colour palette map Color Primer A colour taken [...] ::
What is good hypertext writing? :: Jutta Degener’s What is good hypertext writing essay is still relevant 7 years later, even though Web pages tend to look more like interfaces and less like documents. The rest of her homepage looks sort of antique but still interesting. I like the paintings. ::
Transquoting :: ” It never occurred to me that the techies writing the software would try to use the computer to simulate paper ? actually not even paper, but paper under glass. ” quoted in Grand Text Auto blog Ted Nelson suffered character assasination in a well known Wired article about Xanadu. Anyone who can dismiss Word [...] ::
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