Pratt Spring Dreamweaver CS4 II Day #1
Posted by admin in web design on February 5, 2010
We are off and running. I welcome the newest members to this blog to the fun of Dreamweaver with Jerome. HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Class book :
goal of the class:
6 page site{ interactive site using CSS, JavaScript and (X)HTML}S
Home page – 2 or 3 or 4 columns with both header and site info.
Contact page – working [...]
Microsoft’s IE9
Posted by admin in web design on November 19, 2009
I was just watching CNN. Below on the ticker scrolled Microsoft fights back with it next Browser I.E.9. WHAT???????
Yes, I said it, but what the hell? Hey, anytime a company as big as Microsoft make any moves to correct itself, it is big news. Microsoft is starting to talk about I.E.9 .
I was more [...]
OMG – New Apple IMAC/ Mac mini/ MacBook/ Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
Posted by admin in web design on October 20, 2009
http://www.apple.com/magicmouse/ – magic mouse with multi touch.
http://www.apple.com/imac/ – iMac
http://www.apple.com/macbook/ – macBook
http://www.apple.com/macmini/ – Mac mini
http://www.apple.com/macmini/server/ – Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
JavaScript for web designers
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 5, 2009
Matt Stow
www.mattstow.com
Web designer really is an ambiguous job title, isn’t it? What does a web designer do exactly?
In my opinion, to be a web designer, you need to have some level of competency or awareness in all of the following interconnected areas:
Information architecture
Layout design
Interaction [...]
Applying design to Spry widgets
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 5, 2009
from Chris Converse-
Codify Design Studio
The beauty of Spry and Adobe Dreamweaver is that adding Spry widgets to your page takes only a few seconds. Once you add a widget, Dreamweaver adds the necessary JavaScript and CSS files to make the magic happen. Given access to these files, especially the [...]
More SEO info.
Posted by admin in Uncategorized, web design on September 26, 2009
Have gotten a google account? if not, why not? It’s free and you get more info about your craft as a web designer and free stats.
take a look at http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769
You should also check into yahoo @ http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/basics/basics-18.html
and bling @ http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=wl_webmasters&querytype=&query=&tmt=&domain=help.live.com&format=b1
and maybe this great post from Nettuts.com
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/search-engine-optimization-101/
Have you heard about FoWD 2009 NYC
Posted by admin in web design on September 22, 2009
t’s that time of year again, FOWD is back in New York City!
We’ve got some awesome speakers lined up for you this year. It’s going to be bigger and better than ever. Don’t miss out on our amazing early bird tickets which
start at $295 for a 1 day conference pass.
So what’s on the Agenda?
There’s loads [...]
Day3 – DWII class @ Pratt
Posted by admin in web design on September 19, 2009
We are plan a site , using the starter file for the Day #1 and this sample screenshots. We reviewed the tags to used for this design and worked out a page structure for a table-less site. the divs were set as IDs with the basic names that i use with all of my site.{wrapper,site,branding,mainContent, [...]
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