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zachry-final
April 27, 2005
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rasmussen_final
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Paikowski-Final
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Fontenot_final
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URL for entries
April 25, 2005
http://www.ryanoz.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 07:50 AM | Comments (0)
adobe's acquisition of macromedia
April 22, 2005
Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's FAQ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)
For Wednesday 4.13
April 11, 2005
Have 5 rough designs ready to look at and discuss. These should be sketches, imagery (scanned, photography, found) or both. Just be ready to show 5 different directions you are considering for the design of this first page.
Things to consider:
What will be actual imagery and what will be selectable (HTML text). The visual presentation should complement the text, concept, and theme. The graphics should be secondary to your text/content. So avoid designs that may use 1 large graphic. Web design is not print... people aren't going to be flipping pages in a magazine; they are going to be interacting with your text. Clicking one large image that takes the user to another large image is the same concept as turning pages in a magazine. You'll need to integrate graphics with your text; the more subtle you can do this the better. Think of the graphics as supplemental accent to your text.
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 10:19 PM | Comments (0)
Just a note...
April 06, 2005
post your examples here
on this current project: you should really focus on the non-linear nature of hypertext and hypermedia. Your projects should really take advantage of this new media by creating an experience that is not sequential and orderly; that's what old media is for. Play around with your text-reconfigure it, move it around, take it out of context, make it unique! Draw connections between your literature and, art, music, science, culture-everything is inner-connected. To make these connections, your going to need to seek-out these associations; so follow your concepts and see where your research leads you. If successful, this project will have a stream-of-consciousness sensibility that paralles the way we think and remember. So see how far you can push it!
So consider these concepts as you are researching, gathering content, and laying out your rough interaction maps. We'll discuss these ideas on Monday along with writings from Ted Nelson's book Computer Lib/Dream Machines in which he coines the term hypertext and hypermedia.
Also, I will email everyone soon with a login name and password (as well as instructions) for our website so you will all be able to post your own entries to the site.
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)
Mobile Graffiti!
March 31, 2005
Grafedia
is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. It can be written anywhere - on walls, in the streets, or on sidewalks. Grafedia can also be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers "click" on these grafedia hyperlinks with their cell phones by sending a message addressed to the word + "@grafedia.net" to get the content behind the link... Grafedia is a boundless, interactive publishing platform, base, cheap, and easy to use. It is an open system - the places and ways to use it are limitless. With grafedia, every surface becomes potentially a web page, and the entire physical world can be joined with the Internet.
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 07:45 PM | Comments (1)
Interactive Narrative Project
March 30, 2005
The Interactive Narrative Project outline has been added to the site under the "Projects" menu (this is the same information as the hand-out you were given in class).
Any questions, concerns, or assignments related to the Interactive Narrative project should be posted in the "comments" of this entry.
Any updates to this project will be reflected in this same entry also, and this entry is filed under the Category: "projects".
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 04:48 PM | Comments (15)
pimp my safari
March 28, 2005
Pimp My Safari
Nice resource for customizing and enhancing safari.
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 02:06 AM | Comments (0)
Exercise: Table Layout
March 23, 2005
Using the graphics and text provided create a web page using tables for layout
Requirement
- the page must use a table for layout [nested]
- the page must have a left margin, top margin, margin width, and margin height equal to 0. [ page properties ]
- all cells must have horizontal and vertical alignment equal to left and top
- the table should be centered in the browser
- the page should have a title
- all type should be set, sized, and styled
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 12:03 AM | Comments (1)
Class Wednesday 3.23
March 22, 2005
Be sure to bring your Dreamweaver book with you to class tomorrow (Wednesday).
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 06:37 PM | Comments (0)
2005 Bloggies
March 21, 2005
>> Bloggies >> Fifth Annual Weblog AwardsThe Bloggies® are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weblog writers and those related to weblogs. This is the fifth ceremony, with previous winners listed on their respective sites: 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004.
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 04:42 PM | Comments (0)
2005 Web Awards Winners
March 18, 2005
The winning websites from the 2005 SXSW conference. This one's great!
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 08:34 PM | Comments (0)
