Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
The Web Metaphor
I AM...
• Inter-connectivity
• Inter-dependency
• Inter-relationship
Think about this!
How will it influence your design experience?
How will it influence your design experience?
Strengths Questionnaire
Let's begin...
re: the process
1. Click the REGISTER button located at the bottom left corner of the web page www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/
2. Fill out the registration form.
3. Record your Username and Password.
4. Select VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire, under the heading Engagement Questionnaires: Measures 24 Character Strengths. It will take about 20 minutes to fill out the questionnaire.
5. Save a copy of the top five strengths, for use in your web site.
re: the process
1. Click the REGISTER button located at the bottom left corner of the web page www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/
2. Fill out the registration form.
3. Record your Username and Password.
4. Select VIA Signature Strengths Questionnaire, under the heading Engagement Questionnaires: Measures 24 Character Strengths. It will take about 20 minutes to fill out the questionnaire.
5. Save a copy of the top five strengths, for use in your web site.
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?
2010.01
Welcome to Web Design 1: Web Design Fundamentals.
re: the blog
This blog will include weekly links to resources that may be useful to you in your explorations of web design.
re: the course
This is an introductory level, fourteen week course. It is designed to provide the participant with the basic tools and principles for designing a web site.
re: the process
Each week we will explore different aspects of page and site design. You are encouraged to view the HOW TO video links and participate in weekly exercises. Practice, practice, practice.
© 2010 thedigitalprofessor
re: the blog
This blog will include weekly links to resources that may be useful to you in your explorations of web design.
re: the course
This is an introductory level, fourteen week course. It is designed to provide the participant with the basic tools and principles for designing a web site.
re: the process
Each week we will explore different aspects of page and site design. You are encouraged to view the HOW TO video links and participate in weekly exercises. Practice, practice, practice.
© 2010 thedigitalprofessor
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Week #14: Peer Evaluations & Phase 5
I. FTP all files to your web site.
II. Test all hyperlinks.
III. Phase 5 Requirements:
1. Create three domain names and search the internet and fine one that is available.
Search your names using one of the following URLS:
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://www.whois.net/
IV. Peer Evaluations:
Review at least 10 sites and make a redesign recommendation.
V. Google Registration:
When you register a domain name and build a Web site you can add the URL to a search engine like Google.
http://www.google.com/addurl/
MAKE CHANGES FOR NEXT WEEK
Pick a few of your received peer evaluations and redesign your site accordingly.
WHAT'S DUE NEXT WEEK:
I. Final Web site uploaded to the web account
II. DVD-R or CD-R with the web site and a folder containing all production files ( .psd, .fla, .mov, .ai, .wav, .mp3, .pdf, etc...)
III. Presentation of Web site
IV. Design Rationale explaining the design decisions (typography, colours, shapes, animations, metaphor, spacing, economy, repetition, balance, focal point,unity)
V. All 5 Phases (pdf) documents on DVD/CD.
II. Test all hyperlinks.
III. Phase 5 Requirements:
1. Create three domain names and search the internet and fine one that is available.
Search your names using one of the following URLS:
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
http://www.whois.net/
IV. Peer Evaluations:
Review at least 10 sites and make a redesign recommendation.
V. Google Registration:
When you register a domain name and build a Web site you can add the URL to a search engine like Google.
http://www.google.com/addurl/
MAKE CHANGES FOR NEXT WEEK
Pick a few of your received peer evaluations and redesign your site accordingly.
WHAT'S DUE NEXT WEEK:
I. Final Web site uploaded to the web account
II. DVD-R or CD-R with the web site and a folder containing all production files ( .psd, .fla, .mov, .ai, .wav, .mp3, .pdf, etc...)
III. Presentation of Web site
IV. Design Rationale explaining the design decisions (typography, colours, shapes, animations, metaphor, spacing, economy, repetition, balance, focal point,unity)
V. All 5 Phases (pdf) documents on DVD/CD.
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