Downloading blogs for assessment
For your CSM4 assessment, you will need to download your research blog so it can be viewed offline.
It should be a fairly painless process, and can be achieved using the following software:
OSX (Mac):
http://www.sitesucker.us/mac.html
Windows:
http://www.spadixbd.com/backstreet/
Location base social networking mapping
An interesting video showing the geotagged bursts of mobile device based social networking activity during the recent SXSW festival in Austin Texas. From here on in, web 3 is going to be all about the geotagging locations… Read more
Embedding Flash from other sites
One main aspect to having your own site is being able to publish and show the world your creative products, be that music, video, photos or games. Flash powers about 90% of online video and sound content and is probably what you watch your Youtube videos in and listen to music online (unless on a mobile device like the iphone).
Vimeo, Youtube and Soundcloud use flash, and they offer easy ways for your include video or players on your own site.
Ading Flash to your site
Adobe’s Flash is a great tool for creating rich interactive experiences online – it powers much of the video, music, games and animation on the web and although the new upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 promise to deliver similar experiences, only the most modern browsers will display them correctly, so it’s fairly safe to say Flash won’t be going anywhere any time soon. PLEASE NOTE: This is how to embed a Flash SWF file that you have created yourself – for instructions on embedding Flash from other sites – for example youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Flickr etc see here. Read more
tutorials and web surgery session Friday 12th
10.00
10.20
10.40
11.00: Guy
11.20: George
11.40: Dewi
12.00: Tim
12.20: Alfie
12.40: LUNCH
1pm: web surgery – venue TBC
Get going with Dreamweaver
So, You’ve got a photoshop website layout ready to turn into a real life website and a copy of Dreamweaver (or other favourite html editor)…
Make your HTML pretty! CSS overview
At the end of last session, we began looking at CSS (or Cascading Style Sheets) – the best way to layout and ‘style’ or format your html page. Read more
Big list ‘o’ web design links
Here’s an obtuse list of useful web design links for you to click through when getting your head around making a website.
Starting with HTML
Interesting links:
www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://www.w3.org
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language)
CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
Domain Name: A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet. These names appear as a component of a Web site’s URL, e.g. wikipedia.org. This type of domain name is also called a hostname.
webdesign Photoshop layout tutorials
So, You’ve got an idea of what you want in your site, and you’ve created a wireframe to help give you an idea of how to layout your content. The next step is to mock-up your site in a graphics package (such as Photoshop) to really begin cementing the colours, graphics and near-final layout of your site pages.
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