Guest Speaker Reactions: Samantha Warren
Samantha Warren works for Viget Labs as a Web Designer. But don't be fooled; her passion lies in Type and teaching. Samantha is making herself one of the best local resources for discussion on Type. She has spoken recently at Refresh Baltimore and Refresh Pittsburgh regarding the process of developing a site with strong considerations of type.
I think the best take away from her presentation is the power of Type. Type brings so many options
Guest Speaker Reactions: Paul Boag
We had the fortune to interview Paul Boag, the infamous podcaster of Boagworld and Creative Director of Headscape, on this past Thursday, November 13th, 2008. I emailed Paul in September asking him if he would be willing to chat with us via Skype. He agreed but also mentioned that he would be speaking at Future of Web Design and that if we could make the trip he would love speaking to us then as well. That began the wheels turning and we
I attended the first ever Sidebar Creative Workshop
On Wednesday, November 12th I attended the first ever Sidebar Creative Workshop in DC. I took a professional day (a day of learning and growth) off from school and went to DC with my good friend and fellow web design teacher Zac Gordon.
Sidebar Creative is a power group of 4 crazy insane talented web designers and developers starting with Bryan Veloso (designer/tiny bit developer), Dan Rubin (designer), Steve Smith (designer/developer), and Jon
Future of Web Design Conference 2008
On November 4th at 1:15am I woke up to my alarm blaring. I crawled out of bed, started the coffee and began my drive to work. Am I crazy you say? Is this one of those stories where I find out after I get to work that my clock was wrong? No and no. I was meeting my Advanced Web students and a few Web Design kids at Damascus HS at 2:30am to jump on a bus headed to New York City. We were headed to the Carsonified Future of Web Design
Web Design
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2008
- What is a favicon?
- Check out these great examples:
- Smashing Magazine Episode 1
- Smashing Magazine Episode 2
- Smashing Magazine Episode 3
- Smashing Magazine Episode 4
- Smashing Magazine Episode 5
- Smashing Magazine Episode 6
- Smashing Magazine Episode 7
- Smashing Magazine Episode 8
- Open Photoshop and create a new 16px x 16px canvas at 300 resolution.
Resources
Programming
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2008
- Write a program that calculates the hypotenuse of a triangle. Ask the user for the things you need and write a function to perform the actual calculations.
- Call the program classwork10
Resources
Adv Web Tools
Monday, Nov 24th, 2008
- Open your Javascript project.
- Let’s work through the logic together so you can focus on getting the images done.
