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Usability, usability, and usability | Dries Buytaert
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Usability, usability, and usability | Dries Buytaert I’ve created a couple of test sites with various versions of Drupal, and while they were certainly usable, I never went back to finish the sites because it was difficult for me to remember how Drupal works. Every time I went to administer a site, there was always [...]
Double Secret Probation
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009I was going to use another quote from Animal House about “taking the bar”, but I do try to make this a family friendly site. If you know the quote to which I’m referring, it more accurately projects my feelings on the matter at hand. This morning, the Boss emailed me to ask if I [...]
Dreamweaver is not dying…yet
Thursday, March 12th, 2009A tweet from my friend Alvin last week led me to I’m sorry but Dreamweaver is dying on the PC Pro web site. For the uninitiated, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is still the leading web design and development tool used today. A lot of people who viewed the article on PC Pro didn’t realize that author Tom [...]
smush it!
Sunday, October 5th, 2008smush it! One thing I notice about school web sites is the tendency not to optimizte the file sizes of photos. I’m guilty of this myself sometimes, but I generally try to compress my jpeg files so my pages load faster. This new tool from Yeahoo claims to do a better job than Photoshop or [...]
SCOCA Web 4.0
Monday, May 12th, 2008I was sick Friday and didn’t do my presentation at the Regional Tech Coordinators meeting. I was really annoyed, because I spent a lot of time putting it together. You are going to see a few things I would have presented through the magic of this blog post. The new site will be the 4th [...]
The Return of the AutoPC?
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Back in 1998 you could purchase a Clarion AutoPC (using Windows CE) with GPS, voice recognition, and speech for $1300.00. The device had an 8 color, 128X64 screen, 60Mhz SH3 processor with 16 Meg RAM, and also had calendar and contact features. Although Microsoft pushed the AutoPC heavily, it failed, and the Clarion was the [...]
Podcast Tech I
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Before I get started, I want to thank everyone for the nice comments on the first podcast. I hope to make this a bi-weekly regular series. Also, thanks to my guests. We had fun doing the show. I also want to mention that I think if I had cut every instance of my utterance of [...]
Internet Explorer 8
Monday, March 10th, 2008The first beta of IE8 is out, and the big news is that Microsoft is touting standards compliance. This is a big deal for designers because you can code CSS that for the most part works fine when viewed in Firefox or Opera, but not IE7 and IE6. To make matters worse, IE6 and 7 [...]
WordPress Theme Viewer – Develop Your “Design Eye”
Sunday, March 9th, 2008You may not be looking for a new theme for your WordPress site, but when thinking of design ideas for a school web site the WordPress Theme Viewer is a great place to start. With over 1300 themes that you can test run, you’re bound to find something that catches your eye. The site is [...]
Adobe Kuler and Navigation Trends
Friday, February 29th, 2008I saw Peggy’s post about Kuler and checked it out last night. This is a great site for anyone looking to find nice color combinations for web, presentation, or print related work. If you own Photoshop you can import these swatches into the program directly, and for web designers you can get the hex# of [...]
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