It’s so hard to find a good design for a site based on vampires. At this rate I’ll be turning to blogs and news sites to find something that doesn’t hurt my eyes or my feelings. Shouldn’t these bloodsuckers have a company ready to commercialize them by now?
#1
http://celestina.newsvine.com/_news/2007/04/18/670251-vampire-mythology-and-corporate-america
Visual Design and Site Flow
Green and white, each [...]
Vampires: If they look so good nowadays, why don’t their sites?
Web Design: More than just CSS/XHTML
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/87/bland_and_grand_web_designs/
Take a look at the pages within the above link. What do you see? In the bland section, I see some boring pages, but some particularly nice ones too. So why are they there? To be blunt, design flaws, from a bland look, to simple functionality. It may be subtle, but these are pages that [...]
Semantic Web apps on the rise
http://ablvienna.wordpress.com/category/semantic-web/
The above link may not lead to a blog about semantic web design, but it may be just as crucial to the subject. It’s important to know all you can know about what you’re designing for. That way you can have a better grasp on how to design your page in the simplest and easiest [...]
Pod/Vodcasting
http://edmarketing.apple.com/adcinstitute/wp-content/Missouri_Podcasting_White_Paper.pdf
Have you ever wanted your own radio show? Well, this link is the place to learn the basics. I actually have all of the equipment needed to create a podcast. I don’t think it’s in my best interest though. I can’t really talk all that long without stumbling over my words. Typing a blog is [...]
HTML/CSS
Html and css go hand in hand. It’s sort of like peanut butter and jelly. You get the knife in one and before you know it, you’re slapping the other on the bread. The same goes with html and css. At least on html dogs and w3 schools. It’s because html is basically setting [...]
My PLE
Well then, my very own PLE. I really don’t know what to say about it. I have two aggregators. If I can’t get to one, I can get to the other. Netvibes and Google Reader are the ones I use. Mainly because they’re just simple to use so I haven’t checked out any others. I [...]
Fun With Haptics
“Haptics is a new technology in its early stages. It allows for kinesthetic feedback to users from the computer itself. The problems with it at the moment include, the use of extensive processing power, the need for special equipment (which is often times not very portable), and the sheer amount of complexity. So far, haptics [...]
Communities of Practice
http://www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.htm
So next up is communities of practice. Well, it’s actualy really simple. A group of people share a common interest and the discuss and practice said interest. It’s as simple as that. It’s like if people took all of their PLEs and started to share them within a community. If you like to breed dogs, [...]
How to be Heard
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=2
^Read this if you want some tips on how to be heard.
So you’re new to this blogging business, eh? So am I. So you want to be heard by everyone, eh? Well I really don’t care. Now, if you don’t mind blogging for no reason, wasting your time, wasting the time of whoever stumbles across [...]
Remember to organize as you go.
http://blog.edugator.net/node/62
I’m not going to get very extensive this week folks, but the above site links to edugator. This also happens to be an aggregator. Notice how there’s a tag cloud. But that’s not important, I want to talk about organizing your PLE as you go. You see, this article may not seem like much right [...]
