The Dirt on “Clean”
Last week, when I should have been finishing up a conference paper I gave on Sunday, I instead kept messing with the webpage that Jeremy is teaching us how to design. Coding left me confused and...
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Who says I like right angles?
Last week, I started tackling what I naively assume to be some CSS issues that “real” web designers might also see as challenges. The “box model” in CSS allows for lots of “clean” designs, but it...
View ArticlePraxis: Doing is Thinking?
Speaking off the cuff to a group of prospective Praxis Program applicants in March, I found myself explaining how “aesthetic provocation” isn’t the same as argument, that Prism isn’t a tool that...
View ArticleOn Not Knowing
I made it through HTML/CSS and miraculously I still have a computer and most my sanity. These weeks of learning HTML/CSS have happened to coincide with my first weeks of being a Teaching Assistant....
View ArticleFailure
In middle school I built a website about the seven wonders of the ancient world. Nothing fancy – just images and some links – and I never published it. Building a personal website over the past few...
View ArticleIgnoring your First Child
And no, I’m not talking about human children. I’m talking about CSS selectors! I usually have instances in my web designs where I would like to apply some styles to all the elements of a particular...
View ArticleCasing your Text
One of the first things I remember doing as a graduate assistant was editing a few dozen HTML files to change all of the headings, which someone had typed in upper case, to use title case. This was not...
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Interactive CSS in Neatline 2.0
[Cross-posted with dclure.org] Neatline 2.0 makes it possible to work with really large collections of records – as many as about 1,000,000 in a single exhibit. This level of scalability opens up the...
View ArticleBetter :focus
Whenever I’ve taught folks how to do some basic HTML and CSS, the first thing they want to change are the styles for links on the page. And who can blame them? The default colors for links are pretty...
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Lessons for Christmas: A Sawzall Solves All
Christmas, this year, is for building stuff. Today’s work orbits around three projects: building my new dining room table, finishing off a bike I am building for someone, and building some stuff in...
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We wish you a merry CSSmas!
While I plan on taking some time off over Christmas and New Year’s to be with family and friends, I also plan on fine-tuning my programing skills over the break. At the suggestion of Jeremy the first...
View ArticlePraxis Holidays
Just before we departed for the break, Stephanie and I met with Jeremy to talk over some of our wireframes for Ivanhoe. (Stephanie discussed our wireframing process in her post.) “Right,” Jeremy told...
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Faulty Format or User Error?
As you’ve already learned from Stephanie’s post team delegates (Stephanie & Eliza) have been wireframing ideas for Ivanhoe since we’ve decided on creating a plugin for WordPress. But before this...
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Websites, Media Buttons, and Logos – oh my!
Last week I took a different approach to design. Instead of wireframing in html, Stephanie and I decided to break out the colored pencils and tap into our creative side. First, we worked on creating an...
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On Stemmatics
So this is a git network graph. Specifically, it is the network graph for Ivanhoe from c. 20 February to 1 March. The blue line is our Develop branch and the various branches are features, projects,...
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An Ivanhoe Design Idea
So last week Francesca and I each pitched design for our informational website. While the bulk of our pitches focused on the look of the website, I formulated my website design (ps, as this was just a...
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