Tuesday, December 30, 2003

LookSmart's FindArticles

RESEARCH: LookSmart's FindArticles combs through 700+ publications. Most results are 6 months old or older, ack. LockerGnome.

Data Recovery | Data Doctors Inc.

Data Recovery | Data Doctors Inc.: more on spoofed web site URLs.

Secunia - Stay Secure

Secunia - Stay Secure is a site devoted to software vulnerabilities. Offers URL tests for some threats.

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

EXAMPLE: Movienet page for TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE

Movienet's page for TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE uses javascript rollovers, simple grid (stacked tables?) to promote this animated feature film.

Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Project Cool's Web Graphics Zone

Project Cool's Web Graphics Zone offers EXCELLENT tips and instruction about color and web work. Color theory, color use, graphic tips, tips for conservingbandwidth, and much much more.

The Color Schemer: Tutorial References

The Color Schemer: Tutorial References includes links to several sites with color tutorials including Color Matters and Web Design Clinic.

EXAMPLE: Culture Shock

What can you do without Flash or Director? The companion web site to the public television program Culture Shock has provocations that use simple html to engage the audience in an interactivity that makes a point about cultural censorship.

Example: BUILDING BIG: Home Page

BUILDING BIG web site is aocmpanion to the tv series of the same name. Includes an educators guide, interactivities to teach with. Also "Local Wonders" data base where users can contribute content to the site.

Welcome to WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group, LLC

Welcome to WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group, LLC: example ofNOT so successful design. There is (12/23/2003) a broken page (includes links to files on local drives!), and a page that wastes its space prodigiously (important content is below the fold; space above the fold is occupied by a gratuitous graphic).

EXAMPLE: Entertainment Image

Entertainment Image presents a media design company's services, portfolio, job listings and partners in relatively flat hierarchy. Simple, clean design. Very attractive basic site. Good model for beginners.

Use of tree frog as "logo" is appealing, too :o)

Curricula for Web Accessibility Training

Curricula for Web Accessibility Training includes lesson plans, links.

Monday, December 22, 2003

Active Jump HTML Tutorial

Active Jump HTML Tutorial:

Evrsoft.com Directory of HTML Tutorials

Evrsoft.com Web Developer Directory: a linked list of HTML tutorials.

Evrsoft.com Directory of HTML Tutorials

Evrsoft.com Web Developer Directory: a linked list of HTML tutorials.

EvrSoft Developers' Network

Evrsoft Developers Network: HTML Guides : HTML Tutorials : HTML Help - Web Developers Network -- from the folks who bring you 1stPage. Tips on Web design (HTML, Tutorials, tips, style sheets, javascript, multimedia design), Web development (tech issues, e commerce, online services, domain names, PHP & MySql, Wireless, and more). This URL is their web developers' portal.

Evrsoft

Evrsoft: Home of 1stPage HTML editor. Version 2.0 is FREE.

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Distance Learning | Credits

Distance Learning
DLRN course on using online in K12 classroom.

RadioTower.com

RadioTower.com Radio & Music - Internet Radio Station and Free Music Guide. 115 "variety" stations alone as of 12/16/2003.

Tuesday, December 09, 2003

HTML Goodies - Home Page

HTML Goodies - Home Page: More guides and tutorials for novice coders. Advanced stuff too for the more ambitious.

:: aimup! :: I.T. & Web Design

:: aimup! :: Learning about I.T. and Web Design.

:: aimup :: writing ::

:: aimup :: writing :: for the web

Web Page Design for Designers - Editorial June 2000

Web Page Design for Designers - Editorial June 2000 on backgrounds and type, and the differences between type for the printed page vs. type for the computer screen.

Saturday, December 06, 2003

Pandecta Magazine

Pandecta Magazine offers "in-the-trenches, e-business know-how."

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a grassroots movement toward the commons idea of copyright -- a way to share creative work, and to make your own creative work available to others to build upon and share.

Search Engine Dictionary

Search Engine Dictionary teaches you more than you cared to know about these modern day essentials.

Google Bombing

Articles on how to manipulate Google's returns are to be found on Wordspy, FridgeMagnet, and Microcontent.

Wednesday, December 03, 2003

CSC Comm Studies Test Site

Browse Sections of the communication studies web at CSC -- this is the testbed, not the live site.

Teachers Domain: Home

Teachers Domain: Home offers interactive resources, footage, etc. for teachers. Aimed mainly at K12. At the moment, life sciences are the only topics developed. Physical sciences are coming soon. Also see Professional Development online courses. Username: hfuller. PW: teacher.

Monday, December 01, 2003

Tobacco Settlement

Tobacco Settlement page of links related to S. 1415

Syllabus on Media

This syllabus includes links to assorted readings on the subject of mass media ownership and media in a democracy.

BBC World Service: The Message

BBC - The Message is a piece on HIV prevention messages. "Presenter Nigel Wrench asks why HIV prevention messages have largely failed to make a difference to the spread of the pandemic.


"Working with leading advertising agency J Walter Thompson, he attempts to come up with a new kind of message which learns from the mistakes of the past and makes use of the same techniques employed to sell consumer goods."


This piece aired in NH on NHPR, via PRI, on Monday morning, December 1 at about 5:30 AM.