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as the new academic year is about to begin - I would just like to promote the 2 courses I run at TowerHamletsCollege (London, Poplar) - enrolment will start the first week of september so if you’re interested - be quick and get in touch :)
if webdesign or animation are not your thing - you should have a look at Zak’s website and the courses he runs: 2d3d Visualisation and Digital Aided Fine Art
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after managing to lock myself out of the admin section for the second time - I thought I should write up a very quick tutorial on how to change the master password. So here is just a quick step-by-step on how to reset your password for the main admin user - using phpMyAdmin. For this you will need access to the control panel of your server and be able to access your WordPress database via phpMyAdmin.
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once again - the ALA team want our data. Though forms or surveys can be a pain - this one is a must for all of us being webgeeks :-)
to quote the site:
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.
Usertesting can be one of those expensive and time consuming aspects of any website project. Though it is clear to us working on the site’s design and development how vital actual testing is - it is yet an entirely different matter to convince your client to spend time and money on it, especially if - like me - you tend to have clients who are individuals or smaller companies or organisations.
That was until a gorilla came along introducing a new alternative which looks very promising ;-)
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just came across this video and though I’m not usually into silly webclips - I did like this one here ;-) It’s nothing amazing - but I liked the idea of putting characters to fonts…
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Today I received the disc with some absolutely stunning photos of Nick, just love them (and this man!) - I had to show them here :-) Tom has been rediscovering his love and passion for photography and taken some amazing photos. Nick became one of his recent subjects and the result is amazing. I particularly like Tom’s signature shot with the goggles. Thank you, Tom :-)
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Having just received an email from Helen Kennedy from INMD it was good to hear that Channel 4 reported on the issues facing intellectually disabled users online. I’m very glad that this is getting some media exposure - and to support this issue - I’d like to show it here.
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‘Scaffolding’ - my 2 wonderful paintings from Mags :-) → continue reading…
it’s that time again - the end of another academic year and time for another exhibition to show off this year’s creative masterpieces.
digital arts exhibition, 24/7/08 @ The Foundry
Courses participating:
Everyone is welcome - the more the merrier ;-) hope to see you there :-)
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UPDATE →
It was a great evening - lots of visitors - good atmosphere - and a great end to the year. Thanks to Laura, Daiva and Zara for the photos :-)
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This has been an ongoing headache of mine - colour calibration - colour profiles - and how to avoid that annoying colour shift when you save your image for the web…
I was working on a design for Lawrence Griffiths (LookingForAWebsite) who is setting up a website for a primary school. As the school is set in trees - the design brief was to convey this feel, meaning lots of green tones and shades. All was going fine until I wanted to upload the mockups as optimised jpgs for preview and feedback. With my file setup as RGB, 8 Channel and the ‘convert to sRGB’ set in the ’save for web’ window - I thought I was doing everything I needed to simply optimise my mockup.
But how wrong I was… again, I hit the odd colour shift problem - my carefully chosen green tones taking on a completely different shade as soon as I went into the ’save for web’ window… :’( → continue reading…
today is the last day of the INMD workshop - on the program for today is more usertesting and an afternoon of talk from selected experts. I will try to keep notes as we go along today as I am not sure whether I will have time to write this up afterwards. → continue reading…
yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Andy Clarke and attending his workshop “Transcending CSS: Styling For A Beautiful Web”. It was a great day with quite a few ‘lightbulb moments’ for me.
It was great to listen to such clear and to-the-point explanations and I finally clicked with relative positioning ;-) Andy presented a beautiful demo site inspired by Billy Bragg and talked about a lot of wonderful techniques. It was inspiring to hear Andy’s take on the different issues and I was glad to find my own opinions were very much along the same lines…
Hopefully, if time allows, I will soon try to write a post about some of the things I’ve learnt. For now - I can’t wait to implement a few CSS techniques and start by creating a new and cleaner CSS for this site here :)
THANKS, Andy :)
finally made time to set up the ‘eyelearn’ courses up on a new site - eyelearn.org - new branding implemented and a completely new setup for course details and student area.
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having missed it the last 2 years - I’m on time this year to join the united efforts of “CSS naked day” :)
What happened to the design?
To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the
Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.
javascript… the superior geek’s land… as many times before, I again feel I need to face another challenge in coding… as with handcoding - before facing it I thought my visual mind would not be able to handle the code - I feel this is even more so the case with Javascript. → continue reading…
[part of the INMD project]
PROJECT PAGE: PingPong game for ID players
OUTLINE: This game is intended for the ID group with the most severe intellectual disability.
It is therefore intended to be played with assistance, at least for the start of the game. It can be played by 1 person alone - or be played as a 2 player game, each player taking charge of 1 side of the game (left/right black bar and their corresponding half of the screen/projection). → continue reading…
As I have now joined the Commonknowledge Collective - I thought it would be nice to give the member a little something as a little welcome gift from me. → continue reading…
While you are new to handcoding - you will inevitably write CSS code which IE just messes up… :”( In this moment you’d probably like to have a little IE voodoo doll to stick pins into…. :)
But don’t worry - the more you work with the code - the more you will understand how to structure your HTML and CSS better, avoiding most if not all IE hacks. And hopefully with IE8 - if we’re lucky enough - we will have a better version yet…
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Today was the day #2 of the Inclusive New Media Design workshops - and it was a very interesting day as I learnt about people with ID (Intellectual Disablility) and their perspective on every day life as well as their use of the internet. I’m hoping there will be some reference material going up on the INMD site over the next few days which will be good to read.
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