Saturday, February 28, 2004

More on blogging by mainstream journalists.

Poynter Online - An Editor Blogs For Readers

Thursday, February 26, 2004

HI, i hope this works, I was looking at some of the blogs under one's to look out for and it seems like alot of them have the dash line under the tittle at the top. I didnt like the 'cheating one' I thought they left to much empty space on the left and right side of the screen. One I did like though had a nice layout and i liked how they seperated everything on the side and into boxes. I think it was two colums,
Shoot, i cant remember the name but I think it had a Ms. or somthng like that infront of it.
Sorry for all my spelling mistakes here... my computer at home is having trouble with the server so i will try to got online somewhere else to make another post ;-)
Hope everyone has a good week
PS> I know what you mean about the gurl.com website , kate I used to go there alot when i was in hs

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

The tutorial we are going to be working on this week.Macromedia - Developer Center: Designing with CSS in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Next week we will hear from "Stump Connolly" a.k.a. Scott Jacobs. The time element of this news blog is interesting.The Week Behind
From The Mind of HaVoC

is the cutest blog I've ever seen. I'm in love with this page design. Lookit those colors! The wacky strawberry theme! I love his sidebar with the colored headers... Furthermore, those little stars marking the posts are too cute to resist. I don't think I've ever liked a page with bright colors so much but somehow, this kid uses them to great effect.

Stencil Revolution

is a great design with a scrollbar and some great use of pictures. I'm a huge fan of sites that actually teach you how to do things (tutorials, d.i.y. guides, etc.) and this one's complete with news and an integrated forum and a gallery. The design is simple but clean and I think it's really readable. Dividing content into boxes helps and I think the menubar at the top is something that, while maybe not the most eye-catching method, is an indispensable method of navigation. It's great to have graphical navigation menus, but when it comes down to it, people really have to be able to move around the page as easily and intuitively as possible.

gURL guide to HTML

Half because I'm a shameless self-promoter (I made this tutorial in 1998 and it's still going strong) and half because I think it's a very helpful resource, I thought I'd throw in the link to the gURL.com HTML how-to. gURL.com used to be extremely cool in design and concept and then it just shattered my heart by selling out and becoming a tool for the advertising industry to reach young women. It's covered in crappy ads now.. and it's just pathetically overblown and overburdened. But the tutorial is simple; since it was done in 1998, there's nothing fancy about it. It just has some easy-to-understand instructions geared toward girls making their first HTML post or site. I hope it can help people feel more confident about writing code.
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Monday, February 23, 2004

Here is a story idea. Let's figure out a way to do "Walkman Busting" and not only write, but get bits of the audio In_the_Loop. Wired News: Radio Takes Music From the Street
See the item in current buzz dated Monday Feb. 23rd. It is about blogging and its increasing acceptance by the business community.