Welcome to the short series on basic website building. I’m writing this because I’m getting sick of teaching people little by little, so by writing up a guide we can all get to learn and use this as a reference.
So if your ready to learn, click read more! Continue reading
I had a chance today to practice and pass one one of my favorite web developing tricks, and i figured why not share it, with others to the world. Continue reading
As a student technology advocate, I try to promote the use of computers in the classroom, with restrictions of course, but to allow for modern, smart, competent students. Recently I was really offended to see a local professor, saying computers were dumb and they make the users stupid. So of course I had to comment, and this is most of my response, almost word for word. Continue reading
CSS Gradients are wonderful things. They can cut down http request, condense document size, and just flat out look awesome. But every browser has to be different, and when mixing every browsers preference, it becomes a pain in the butt. While trying to set it up, i made a fatal flaw in one of my normally untested browsers, firefox 3.6, and the menubar disappeared in it. Continue reading
Crowdsourcing, be definition is a community based design model. It uses the power of many people to get a task done, vs using a few people for a very long time. It work well because people are willing to contribute small amounts of time or money to help the greater good, but often not willing to dedicating themselves to a project for a long period of time.
Early versions included the phone tree, where when a school or workplace closed due to bad weather, the boss called off work, and called the managers, who then called all employees in their departments to tell them work is closed. What could’ve taken 2 hours to call all the employees, can be cut down to maybe half an hour by crowdsourcing the work. Continue reading