IDCC 380: Web Design II Spring 2010

Sourcing Graphics for the Web 2.0 Exercise 04/01/09

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In your penultimate exercise (rounded corners, png, quickmenu), be sure to source your graphics correctly. To the right is a screenshot of the Chinese Art page I showed you in class, in case you need a refresher idea on the model to use. Remember to format all sources with a hanging indentation; voila:

Goddess of Prosperity, Chinese Art Poster, MPW-10213. (n.d.) Retrieved March 30, 2009 from http://www.movieposter.com/poster/MPW-10213/Chinese_Art.html.

GRSites.com Template Maker. (2009). Rounded corders generated March 30, 2009 at http://www.grsites.com/generate/category/5/

Microsoft Office Clip Art Photographs: MPj04389970000[1].jpg (monster-fade). (n.d.). Microsoft Office 2007. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation.

Page background: ChineseArt.jpg. (2006). UniKeep Arts & Entertainmment 2006 Gallery. Retrieved March 30, 2009 from http://www.unikeep.com/awards/gallery_arts.shtml.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: grsites, png, Quick Menu, rounded corners, Web 2.0

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Information Architecture and the WWW, 01/20/09

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Today's introductory presentation on Information Architecture and the World Wide Web is now available for you to view on your own computer. Just click on the icon to your right, and you will be taken to the tutorial.

Here are some of the key terms we covered, terms that will keep cropping up in the course:

• primary, secondary, and tertiary navigation
• Top-tier and second-tier navigation
• drop-down/fly-out menu
• Banner, footer, contents area of a page template
• findability
• browse
• search
• content, context, user
• xhtml, css, dhtml, JavaScript, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Spry components, and programmable widgets
• RSS feeds and subscriptions

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: ajax, browse, drop-down/fly-out menu, findability, JavaScript, primary navigation, search, second-tier navigation, secondary navigation, tertiary navigation, top-tier navigation, Web 2.0

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The Web 2.0 Look: Rounded Corners & Gradient Fills, 04/23/08

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I promised I would recommend two tools that would give you the Web 2.0 look as you design your sites: rounded corners and gradient fills.

For rounded corners, go to sitepoint and give Spanky Corners 1.1 beta a try. As the developers note: "'Spanky Corners' is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produce 'round-cornered content boxes' with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to work." After creating your corners, be sure to download the zip file, unzip the file, and save the contents in your 380 site.

A really neat and painless way to make various kinds of gradient fills is to use grsites.com's gradient texture maker: http://www.grsites.com/generate/group/4000/ Once you produce a gradient, you can then define CSS to use the gradient fill as an element background: in pages, sections of pages, buttons, and the like.

Happy designing!

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: gradient fill, gradients, grsites, Site Point, sitepoint, spanky corners, Web 2.0, web design

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Jesse James Garrett on Ajax, Amazon and Web 2.0 | Internet Marketing News and Blog | E-consultancy.com

Jesse James Garrett on Ajax, Amazon and Web 2.0 Internet Marketing News and Blog E-consultancy.com: "Jesse James Garrett , the man who coined the term 'Ajax' and president of Adaptive Path, has been talking to us about usability and the user experience. It makes for a great read.

Jesse's book, The Elements of User Experience, is one of the most widely read books on user-centred design, and he was recently named as one of the top ten user experience experts in an E-consultancy survey.

Here, we speak to him about the psychological background to web design, the pros and cons of behavioural targeting and Ajax, and why he thinks Amazon and eBay's usability has gone 'astray'."

Labels: ajax, Jesse James Garrett, usability, Web 2.0

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