Constandina Tutten's Weblog

In this, my final blog post for this course, I want to say how much I’ve learned this semester.  I noted during our blended session on 12/2 that this is the hardest course I have ever taken, and that was the truth.  But it has enabled me to achieve a certain level of comfort with [...]

In this, our last lesson, we consulted smartwebby.com to go over the web design guide and any tutorials we found helpful.  I liked the “making your site live” and “css styles” tutorials in the Dreamweaver section.  The site contains just a vast amount of information.  I’m sure I will be consulting it again as we [...]

This week we were given “fun” sites to view:

Kopozky.net: Hilarious.  I think I read the strips back as far as mid-2007.  I love “the admin.”

OK-cancel.com: An archive of both articles, and a comin strip written by two human-computer interaction (HCI) specialists.  The comics were pretty funny, especially one in the archives about a fictional social [...]

From the list of the “27 best places you should visit to get incredible web design inspiration,” I visited the following:

The FWA: favorite web site awards.  There were some A-mazing sites showcased here.  Evidently you can submit your own site for consideration.  There is a pblic shortlist available to view, which is comprised of sites [...]

Flashvista: This web site was super easy to navigate and had tons of flash resources.  I checked out some great sites that were on their top lists, and went through a couple of the tutorials that were offered.  There were a lot but the two I did were on 3-d rotation and loading photos dynamically.  The [...]

Wiki Public Domain Image Resources: This was a great site, although I could have frittered away an entire day going to all the links for various public domain images.  One link I liked in particular was for “America as it was,” a collection of vintage postcards.  I love all the early Americana type of stuff.

LibrarySpot.com [...]

Since we covered chapter 17 earlier in the semester, we have now come to our last chapter in Creating a Web Site.  Chapter 16 showed us how to incorporate audio and video into our web designs.  Now I’ll just say that I am slightly obsessed with YouTube and even though I would never be brave [...]

Chapter 15 in Creating a Web Site walked us through creating “fancy buttons and menus.” Me oh my, this Java Script stuff is a trifle confusing still for me.  I like the idea of using graphical buttons in my web site.  Again, since I plan to do it on my family’s bakery, I can think [...]

Ilovetypography.com, and their article “15 excellent examples of web typography”: the site itself is an exhaustive collection of everything typography.  I seriously was amazed at the amout of links running down the right column to articles dealing with everything from designing a font from scratch to what Freud would think the types of fonts we [...]

We have now reached the final chapter in The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, which discusses the use of imagery in web sites.  I think the issue of what kinds of images I would want to use on my site drove my decision on what to do my site on more than any other factor.  [...]