Web Technology @ CCBC

12 Steps To Professional Web Design

CDowd — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:51:16 +0000

Found this article and thought I’d share. I agree with pretty much all of this. Definitely worth a read. Here it is.

~Charlie

Impressive Flash Sites

jrosero — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:50:42 +0000

I found these pages from a site I included in my final project. They list some flash sites which are creative and are designed real well. As soon as the semester is over I think I might look at making something as interactive as one of these sites for fun.

http://dzineblog.com/2007/12/amazingly-creative-flash-sites-that-i.html

http://dzineblog.com/2008/01/award-winning-flash-websites-of-year.html

Blog to get better search engine rankings

killerkulture — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:50:34 +0000

I’ll start with the summary…

1. Structure your web pages so that the search engines can index your content and provide enough content so they can understand what your site is about. Don’t embed your content in images or flash.

2. Routinely provide fresh engaging content that users will want to read, find interesting, and feel compelled to share with their peers.

Monitoring and Leveraging Communities

Every industry has an online community of some size. Some industries — such as travel in particular — have literally thousands of forums and blogs talking about deals and experiences. Savvy marketers can leverage these platforms by becoming an active participant — without being “spammy” or invasive — and gain traction within rankings as a direct result of this community participation strategy. Additionally, there’s lots of user generated content about products and services in these communities, providing both invaluable feedback for refinement of current offerings and services, as well as an excellent base for R&D efforts.

Keep Content Fresh by Updating it Regularly

For some organizations, content is hard to update on a regular basis. For example, a company that sells one type of widget that never becomes obsolete may seemingly have no reason to update its content. However, the majority of sites on the Internet could benefit from occasionally “sprucing up the place.” Bottom line: if the content seems like it’s “getting stale” from your human perspective, imagine what a search engine that crawls it every month may feel.

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3627642

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3629342

Homer Simpson Drawn with CSS

dnorth5 — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:50:20 +0000

“Homer Simpson, rendered using nothing but CSS. Very very cool.”

Check it here:

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html

Tables vs CSS

jrosero — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:49:55 +0000

In august I made a site for myself and used tables for the layout. A few years before that I had been making layouts for fun but using divs exclusively. I want to redo my site again but this time wanted to try using divs again in order to be able to change the layout quickly when I get bored.

I hope this hasnt been posted before but I found this while trying to figure out for myself which one was best.

http://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_01.aspx

It covers a lot of issues and I foudn it a fun read because of how serious this person takes the debate.

PHOTOGRAPHER NEEDED!

lbrow255 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:16:07 +0000

Hi,

My brother just announced that he is getting married in May- not a lot of time to coordinate or budget to work with. So, I am trying to find a student that has studied in photography and/or imaging that can be available May 23rd. Please email me at tonya.brwn@gmail.com for specifics and to negotiate pricing.

Web Developer’s Field Guide

CDowd — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:44:30 +0000

This is an amazing list of pretty much everything you ever wanted to know aboot web dev, all in one convenient location. The Web Developer’s Field Guide.

Liquid Resize Photoshop plug-in: resize an image without traditional geometric limitations while minimizing distortion

killerkulture — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:56:02 +0000

Liquid Resize will allow users to resize an image without traditional geometric limitations while minimizing any distortion that would typically result from changing the original aspect ratio of an image.
It’s a free plug-in for Mac and Windows, beta testers are encouraged to participate.

http://www.creativepro.com/article/onone-software-announces-free-liquid-resize-public-preview

The importance of the TITLE tag

killerkulture — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:36:11 +0000

Here’s a goodf article on the importance of your title tag. I’m interested in hearing about other peoples current title tag process and strategy.

http://www.marketingprofs.com/8/title-tag-strategies-basics-brown.asp?adref=znnpbsc148

webt143

miisronhm — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:46:45 +0000

I came across this site that shows top web sites. I thought it was kinda nice giving us variety.

http://www.topdot.org/