Bookmarks for March 17th through April 13th

These are my Jumptags for March 17th through April 13th:

• Problems with ADDIE –
• Moving Your WordPress Site and Database « Weblog Tools Collection – here comes a time you may have to leave one web host for another. No matter the reason the idea of relocating an entire website – especially one that has been online for sometime – can seem very daunting. With a WordPress based site – I found it easi…
• You Are Not a Gadget: The Continuing Case Against Web 2.0 – Jaron Lanier was a pioneer of "virtual reality" in the early 1980s and in his book, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, he makes the case for …
• Horizontal Attention Leans Left (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) – Web users spend 69% of their time viewing the left half of the page and 30% viewing the right half. A conventional layout is thus more likely to make sites profitable.
• Teach Science and Math – Estimates are about 80 percent of Math Education at the K-12 level is strictly focused on solving math problems without any real-world context (Computational Thinking and Math Maturity: Improving Math Education in K-8 Schools, Dave Moursund, 2007). S…
• Space Station Close Encounters With Space Junk: Project Based Learning Activity that Involves an Inquiry Approach – The space station's near misses with debris are a continual issue, which provides excellent resources for scientific project and problem based learning in science.
• The Periodic Table of Periodic Tables / – The web has hundreds of periodic tables and dozens of collections of periodic tables — but it never had a periodic table of periodic tables. Until now. Researched in profound and excruciating detail over the course of a couple nights on Google, we p…
• Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps | Carsonified – In February 2010 Fred Wilson, a New York based tech investor, spoke at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference. His talk, clocking in at just under
• Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE – Although central to the business of higher education, the LMS has also become a symbol of the status quo that supports administrative functions more effectively than teaching and learning activities.
• Write Better CSS With Best Practices | Pro Blog Design – Everyone has a slightly different approach to CSS. That's part of the reason it can be a nightmare to edit someone else's code. But there are a few good practices you can use in your CSS to make your stylesheets easier for you to read, and easier for…
• Techniques for Squeezing Images for All They’re Worth | Webdesigner Depot – An image’s dimensions on screen are measured in pixels: width and height. An image's quality is determined by less tangible factors: composition, mood,
• What Students Expect from Instructors, Other Students – Some years back The Teaching Professor featured an article highlighting Mano Singham’s wonderful piece describing how he moved away from a very authoritarian, rule-centered syllabus (reference below). It’s one of my very favorite articles—I reference…
• Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way – Smashing Magazine – So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or…
• Free Stuff – Educational Technology – ICT in Education – The Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book lists over 100 projects with objectives, defined grade level or age range, links to additional information (including how-to's) about the project, and tips for teachers planning to use the project.

Bookmarks for February 9th through March 17th

These are my Jumptags for February 9th through March 17th:

• Free and legal music downloads – Jamendo – Download and listen to over 20,000 albums, legally. Use BitTorrent or download directly to discover and share new artists. All content is Creative Commons or "Art Libre" licensed.
• Philip Hutchison Talks SCORM and E-Learning — Campus Technology – In this candid and eye-opening interview, Philip Hutchison, a household name in SCORM and the man behind Pipwerks, gives his thoughts about the current state of SCORM and e-learning in general, touching on subjects such as how he became one of the go…
• BBC News – The web: vital statistics – As part of the BBC's SuperPower season, exploring the power of the internet, BBC News explores how the web works.
• The Role of Disruptive Technology in the Future of Higher Education (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE – # Truly disruptive tools will force new thinking and new approaches to ensuring student learning in higher education.
  # Technology enables online learning, which potentially qualifies as a disruptive innovation in education.
• Free HTML/CSS Template for Download – DesignM.ag – A few weeks ago we published a tutorial How to Design a Blue Marketing Company Layout in Photoshop. Our friends at SnobbySlice have taken that design, coded it, and made it available for free download. The template includes the homepage design that w…
• 55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design | Inspiration | instantShift – As you already seen in our previous posts about slideshow presentation designs that representing the key information in slideshow presentation is a hot trend , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• Flickr: The Library of Congress’ Photostream – Images from the Library of Congress' photostream in Flickr.
• Two Ways To Remove A Color Cast From A Photo With Photoshop – Removing color casts in Photoshop. Easy techniques.
• Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes – Smashing Magazine – In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is
• UsabilityPost – Does Your Website Suffer From These 7 Usability Mistakes? – Tips and insights into good design and usability
• Project Cartoon: How Projects Really Work (version 1.5) – How Projects Really Work (version 1.5) How Projects Really Work (version 1.5)
• Malcontent Blogger | bLaugh – Source: ReviewMe Domain: MalcontentBlogger.com
  <img class="comic" title="Malcontent Blogger" alt="Malcontent Blogger" …
• The Whole Internet Truth | bLaugh – Source: Wikipedia Domain: WikisGoneWild.com
  <img class="comic" title="Where is the Secret of Life?" alt="Where is…
• Applying Mathematics To Web Design – Smashing Magazine – “Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe…
• Here’s How to Add Personality to Your E-Learning Courses » The Rapid eLearning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann offers up advice on how to integrate script fonts into your elearning courses for personality.

GC 310: A printer’s primer to HTML & CSS

Today, I get the great pleasure to present to my alma mater at Clemson University.  I have been asked by my good friend Nancy Leininger to present to her graphic communications class about HTML, CSS, content management, and how these apply to printing technologies.  We’ll be using Adobe Connect today, so I’m excited to see how it works as well.  I’m hoping to get Connect for our campus and our Masters degree online.  Below are the slides for this presentations, housed at Slideshare.

Of course, if you have any questions about the slides or the content or if you have a comment about what you see, please drop me a line in the comment section below.

Bookmarks for December 17th through January 4th

These are my Jumptags for December 17th through January 4th:

• The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS – A full-featured how to for creating a design and then converting it to HTML and CSS.
• Kineo – Custom E-Learning Training & LMS Solutions – Tip 33: A Shot of Theory – Keller’s ARCS Model – An overview and application of Keller's ARCS model.
• Download of the Day: iRed Lite (Mac) – Downloads – Lifehacker – Mac OS X only: Freeware app iRed Lite lets you control almost any application using your Apple Remote, such as with Powerpoint (built in).

Bookmarks for December 9th through December 10th

These are my Jumptags for December 9th through December 10th:

• How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong – Smashing Magazine – GIFs of spinning s on the Contact us page. Common usability mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load….
• How to Deal with Feature Creep | Webdesigner Depot – If any assumption is safe, it’s that six months after launching a website (or sooner?), its owners will have a list of things they want to change, from minor
• Project Timeline (Marine Theme) – Google Docs Templates – This is a template for Google Docs for project schedule tracking.
• Cover it Live – TBR08 – Michael Grant – Barry Dahl covered my keynote live and I didn't even know it.
• 6 Hilarious Social Media Motivational Posters – These posters are not the usual motivational posters you see hanging around offices. In fact, the little quotes we see on them aren’t exactly motivating and might even be insulting to social media users. Any offense is obviously intentional, but it’s…
• Sketchy Web Icons: 30 Hand Drawn Icon Pack | Tutorial9 – This Icon Pack includes 30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons. This is the perfect set for adding that handmade feel to your own creations online.
• Secrets to a Faster and Attractive Web Site Design Revealed | Web Design | instantShift – A web designer has many challenges to tackle. The creation of an attractive web site is as important as sending the message across effectively. After all, a web , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• Evaluation Wiki – Mlawiki – This wiki is an ongoing project initiated by the MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) as a way for the academic community to develop, gather, and share materials about the evaluation of work in digital media for purposes of tenure and promot…
• How Getting An F On Your School Paper Makes You A Better Blogger – This guest post was written by Rob Sutton from Ramped Reviews. Image by kharied. This comes to be a surprise …
• HOW TO: Manage Successful Social Media Promotions – Retailers are getting more traffic and sales from social media sites. Here are some great tips for turning social media buzz into social shopping buy.
• Easy front-end framework – Easy front-end framework is all in one front-end solution. It includes CSS, HTML and JavaScript predefined code that you can easily use and reuse on your projects.
• 50 High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design – Designers love to have a lot of quality fonts available to them, and fortunately there are some very good free fonts out there. In this post we'll feature some of the best free fonts that can be used in your commercial designs. If you're looking for …
• 22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks | Tutorials | instantShift – WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• From Blank Screen To Web Design In 5 Easy Steps – Learn a simple, five-step web design process to make sure you include the basic elements every website needs while freeing your mind to be more creative.
• New Branding Revealed For Winter Olympics 2014 – The official logo for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics was revealed last week. This is the first winter games to be held in Russia and it is the first Olympic logo to include an internet URL.

Bookmarks for November 19th through November 20th

These are my Jumptags for November 19th through November 20th:

• The Wired Campus – ‘The Last.fm for Research Papers’ Tops 100,000 Users – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Mendeley, a Web service that lets users organize and share research papers, recently announced that it has surpassed 100,000 users, and that its database now includes some 8 million works.
• Principles Of Good Design: Balance – In a typical web layout, a designer needs to place a logo, text, photographs or illustration. By making a conscious effort to work on the relationship between these elements to produce an eye catching design.
• 16 Intelligent Sites For Application Review | Showcases | instantShift – Web based applications have many advantages over software that you have to download and install it on your computer. First, You don't need to install or update , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
• Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources – Smashing Magazine – Buttons, whatever their purpose, are important design elements. They could be the end point of a Web form or a call to action. Designers have many reasons to style…
• GoAnimate – Create your own cartoons and animations easily. Our tools are free and you don’t need to learn Flash. – GoAnimate is a way to easily create animations and share with friends.

Bookmarks for November 16th

These are my Jumptags for November 16th

• LEGO Digital Designer : Virtual Building Software – Lego Digital Designer allows you to build legos with the software and do cool stuff, too. A revolutionary platform for virtual building. The software is free to download for Mac and PC. PowerPC Macs must download a special version.
• Branching surveys and self-grading quizzes in Google Forms / Google Docs » Moving at the Speed of Creativity – Branching surveys and self-grading quizzes in Google Forms / Google Docs
• Learning Visions: eLearning Guild Authoring & Development Tools Research Report (2008) – did dig up the eLearning Guild Authoring Tools Research Report (January 2008). It’s a bit out of date (almost 2 years old) and I suspect the numbers have changed a bit. My guess is that Articulate represents a larger market share than two years ago…
• Coding a Web Design for Speed and Quality | Webdesigner Depot – The beauty of being a web designer is creating a detailed, creative, and original web design in Photoshop, without having to (for the most part) think about how
• Design Basics: Repetition To Create Visual Themes | Van SEO Design – Last week we talked about alignment as one of the four design basics. We looked at a web page who's elements were randomly strewn across the page and by
• Design Basics: Contrast To Stand Apart And Call Attention | Van SEO Design – Last week our discussion revolved around repetition as a basic design principle. We saw how adding repetitive elements highlights similarity and how repetition
• Cropping Images For Maximum Impact | Van SEO Design – When adding images to your site or blog posts do you take the time to crop them to create a more dynamic and visually interesting image? Here's a simple trick
• Whitespace: Less Is More In Web Design | Van SEO Design – Less is more— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe A good friend of mine is moving into a new apartment after being away from the area for a few years. Needing
• Is Your Web Design Balanced? | Van SEO Design – Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. — Thomas Merton Balance is important in life. Work and play;
• Tagul – Gorgeous tag clouds – Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page

Bookmarks for September 24th through September 29th

These are my Jumptags for September 24th through September 29th:

• Solve Any CSS Problem In 3 Minutes (Or Less) – Discover a simple trick to solve any CSS problem in tableless web design, especially issues with layouts and positioning.
• 13 Web-Safe Fonts At The Core Of Web Typography – Find out what web-safe fonts are and which thirteen font faces are on the list. Includes samples of each font along with the complete font-family property.
• 5 Great Alternatives To Google Docs You Should Consider – More and more of my word processing is getting moved to the Web these days for a number of reasons. My writing is accessible from anywhere, is open to
• Word 2007 Styles – A quick tutorial for creating and applying styles in Microsoft Word.

You gotta luva campaign: Bring down IE6

By way of the Kreativuse blog, I heard about “Bring Down IE 6,” a campaign to encourage web designers and developers to put IE6 out to pasture (or straight on to the glue factory as the metaphor lends).  The inconsistency among browsers and platforms for HTML and CSS is ludicrous.  Adding hacks to support a variety of browsers is pretty much the norm for developers, because their is inconsistencies about which features are supported within each of the browsers.  Having a site look the same in Firefox and IE (not to mention on a Mac and a PC) is pretty much unheard of.  Well, “Bring Down IE 6″ is one effort to stop a small portion of the madness.  From the site, designer Craig Grannell says,

Even in 2001, Internet Explorer didn’t set the world on fire. Incomplete standards support rapidly made it look shoddy in the face of strong competition. In today’s market, surrounded by Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and its own successor, Internet Explorer 7, version 6 of Microsoft’s browser looks positively ancient.

Go on and read the rest of the informative and well argued article. You gotta luv this kind of passion and plea to the masses.  What do you think?  Can we let IE6 go?  I’m particularly interested to hear what the corporate, government and healthcare designers have to say.  Can we sing the torch song and set it adrift like a forgotten Viking warrior?