Week 4

I have found several different site that would be very helpful for me to complete this site. Most of the are pretty much the same with just little differences the I might use from each one. But for the most part all the sites that I have found just have a periodic table that “interactive” so a lot of them say but all it is is just a link to another page with information about the specific element that was clicked on.

periodictable.com
This site is neat in that it shows an image for all the different elements on the periodic table and like most of these site if you click on one of them it will take you to a page with more information about that element. This one is one of the few that I found where if you mouse over on one of the element it will give you a snapshot of the some of the information about the element in the top middle section of the page.

www.dayah.com/periodic/
This site is probably the best looking and most interactive of all the site that I found. It has several different ways to look at the periodic table, and give you a lot of information about the element. The coolest feature that I saw on this site was the heat gauge in the top left of the table.

www.mii.org
And this site would be on of the site where I get a lot of my information about each element to fill in the content of my site with. It is a very basic site it has 118 element listed on this single page with a navigation on the left site of the page with links to all of the element.

video
Another feature that im going to have on my site are videos. Since im not in film i have turned to youtube to supply me with videos. I have found several interesting videos over the periodic table/ chemistry but I still not sure which ones I am going to use yet.

Week 3: Assignment

CssTricks.com
I just found this site today and the couple of articles and videos that I have looked through had some very helpful information about the web.

HTML Emails
The video that I watched was pretty interesting and easy to follow along with. It starts you from the beginning and explains why he is doing things a certain way instead of showing you how to do it. Its not just a basic text tutorial it uses screencasting and I think that he does it pretty well. He also references a couple of different sites that you could visit to learn more HTML emails. These site are linked above the video so that you dont have to go back into the video to write down the link.
All in all I this that this was a good e-learning experience and can be used as a good example to look at when creating a screencasting video tutorial.

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The links below are a few site that I found over the topic that I am planning to do my project over. Some of them are better than the others but all give me good examples and interesting ideas how to organize different information on the site.

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I have changed my mind i would like to do my eLearning site over the periodic table. Technologies that I am planning on using are HTML & CSS and areas of flash.

http://www.webelements.com/nexus/FlashElements

This site has a nice flash app that is you would like to see you will need to download it. But I a cool periodic table that is good eLearning example thats different from the rest.

Rubyforge on Canvas

I like the way the they are showing several different example and the source code for each one. Also they show a lot of extra details about each example.

Canvas Cheat Sheet
I like the idea of having some sort of a cheat sheet for whatever the project might be over

Canvas Tutorial
This is just a basic tutorial but it give you alot of good information as well as example after almost every step

Painting Tutorial
This is another tutorial but it is focused on a specific project

Video
This is a video eLearning page that I found that I thought was a really good example because in the video it explains a lot about what they are trying to teach

Reseach

After looking at some other furniture and just office furniture site i realize that I am probably going to leave out the buying process out of my site, and just show completed work through a gallery.

Furniture.com this is the first site that I looked at. It is a bedroom and living room furniture site but I still thought that I could get some useful information like color schemes and how to display different types of information.

Ashley Furniture is another home furniture company that I look at for some design help. I really like on their home page they have image of there furniture that changes every few seconds. I dont really like the orange color

Office Furniture this site is really well done i like the featured Categories and the best sellers on the home page but i don’t really know if i will be able to add it to my site yet.

GF Office i really like this site the blue and white colors are really relaxing and its not complex very simple that is what i would like for my site.

Final Project “IDEA”

For my final project I was thinking about making a website for Custom furniture company from San Antonio. The company name is JDL Custom and they have made furniture from school to businesses. They do work in bulk or single pieces. So i would have to find a way to separate the two customers, and be a able to show the customers what their options are for what they want.

I still need to contact the company to get more information about what he would want and need in a site to help the buying and selling process flow easier.

5 topics

The five topics that I would like to go over in this class would be learning more about CSS and XHTLM. I dont think I know much about XHTML and XML at all.  Other subjects that I that I would like to cover would be.

1. Cascading Style Sheets

2. Being able to create a nice looking portfolio page

3. Learning how to use floated layouts better with my designs.

4. linking style sheets

5. Knowing the guide lines of the World Wide Web consortium

Stopdesign Doug Bowman

I agree that imagery is not always necessary  is  design  as we learn in typography class designing with only text. But its not a bad thing either, using it in consideration with a project can help deepen the meaning if its worked in well. Choosing the correct text is always hard for me to do. So the process that he describes will be pretty helpful to me in the future.

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