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
Guest Speaker Reactions: Doug March
Doug March is a web designer currently working for Mixx, an information aggregating website. He spoke to the students this past Friday, Nov 7th, 2008 (yes, I'm doing a much better job of posting in a more timely manner). His presentation included an introduction of himself, some of his background, and then he jumped into Search Engine Optimization. He did a great job of answering one of the most popular questions I get from students (and
Guest Speaker Reactions: Ali Felski
Ali is a Flash Designer/Developer with true talent, proven at her site. I have met her on the DC scene through Jackson Wilkinson (her BFF). She spoke to the students about the perils of Flash Development and how most many people think that to use Flash on a website you need to make a Flash animation that takes up the whole screen with the entire site encapsulated into that animation. Simply put, not true. She helped dispel this myth, which as
Web Design
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2008
- Typography Assignment:
Due: Wed, Nov 26th, 2008
Assignment: Pick an animal; using only type create the animal in your favorite Digital Design Program (Photoshop or Fireworks). You may only use the letters in the name of the animal, so if you are making a crab you can only use C, R, A, and B. But you can use each letter as many times as you want. Keep the Elements of Art in mind; use them as well to create a stunning piece. [Line, Shape, Color, Value, Form, Texture, and Space] Other than the actual animal being type you can do whatever you want with the rest of the piece, in other words you are not limited to type with the rest.
Dimensions: I suggest 11in x 8.5in (you decide on landscape or portrait) so that it can be printed easily, but it is up to you. No matter what use a resolution of 300px/in.
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Programming
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2008
- Assignment 10:
Write a program that finds all of the prime numbers between 1 and 100. A prime number is a number that can only be divided by one and itself.
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Adv Web Tools
Monday, Nov 17th, 2008
- Get your Javascript files open.
- Ryan, Matt, and Bobby get the design for Lorne done immediately!
