cs5?

Okay so i've been looking everywhere for a free trial of dreamweaver cs4 because thats what we've been using in class, but all I can find is cs5. would using cs5 for editing my project 1 make problems for editing in cs4 in class later on? i'm a bit worried and i don't want to lose my work..
-jasmine awad

It's almost time!

Hope everyone's projects are going well. Only one more week until they are due! I have so many ideas in my head but I can't exactly portray it on my website with what we have learned so far. I've learned a lot but I still have more researching to do! haha Have a good weekend everyone!

-Jonriel Nicart

Amazing Tires

Hello everyone,

I saw this really cool link of this new innovative airless car tires and i thought i would share with you all. This is possibly the next step in car technology. with these tires we'll see the end of flats and nails. so when you get a moment check out these awesome images of michelins first airless tires.

Sahand Reiisieh

http://strangeandcool.net/2007/09/08/see-through-airless-tires-by-michelin-no-more-flat-tires/

Video Tutorials

Hey guys. I, too, have been having trouble following along with some of the photoshop and dreamweaver concepts. I've turned to youtube tutorials and they are quite helpful.

THIS youtube channel has a lot of helpful videos.
And these are some that apply to what we're doing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkWt_CyDqa8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWI_XO96Hp8

-Jacqueline Escobedo

Professor must go slower....

hello class,

i just wanted to see if anyone is on the same page with me when i say the teacher goes too fast sometimes. i have been doing good keeping up with her till today. oh well maybe its just me. i enjoy this class just thought it would be nice to mention this note so that it can be a greater experience.

thank you,

Mauro Marroquin

Interesting Article

I hope everyone's projects are coming along well! Mine is coming along ok, I have never made a site from photoshop so I am struggling a bit.

Anyway, here is an interesting article I found on digg. I'll post the link, because the article itself is very long!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/206107/the_17_most_dangerous_places_on_the_web.html

Kaytlen Weller

Sound for my project

Alright so my project's getting along pretty well, although i dont know how to make a song play in the background while my audience navigates through it. I dont want the song to just restart whenever they click to a new page, but play continuously until they close the site.. haha any suggestions? =]
-jasmine awad

Need Help Browsing?!

Hey guys, I found myself having trouble finding high resolution/quality pictures on google. I saw that a fellow classmate suggested using deviantart, and that really helped. If you need further suggestions on sites to browse, I’d like to recommend using Flickr Search. Flickr is a community for sharing art and most of the images on there are personal artwork, so credit to the artist should probably be given where it’s due. Here you can find a lot of backgrounds, photographs, and illustrations to incorporate into your website design. Hope this link is of help to all.

-Jacqueline Escobedo

A Photoshop Controversy

I'd never had the chance to work with photoshop before, and though I knew it could alter images and add special effects, I never realized it could do so at such great extents. Some of my classmates and I were actually looking at some before and afters and we were surprised at the extreme changes obvious when images were juxtaposed. And just yesterday, KTLA News reported on an airbrush controversy facing British magazine businesses. The British government wants to pass a law requiring magazines to label any images that have gone through photoshopping, as "digitally altered." They say that these magazines pose a danger to normal sized women, and even men, as they portray a false sense of beauty that is not attainable in real life. Artists feel that government intervention is a horrible idea because it prevents the execution of their art and could negatively affect sales, as people want to think of the "cliched" beauty in ads and photo spreads as realities. I've provided the KTLA article and a related link below so you guys can take a look. Do you think government intervention is extreme in this case? Or do artists using photoshop really have such negative effects on society?

http://blogs.ktla.com/dave/2010/09/photoshop-warning-labels.html#comments

http://jezebel.com/5643967/photoshop-legislation-wont-fix-the-real-problem

-Jacqueline Escobedo

7 Wonders of Dubai

Hello everyone, hopefully everyone is having a great week. I wanted to share some beautiful photos of the 7 wonders of Dubai. There are beautiful pictures of some of the most innovative and jaw dropping man made building, islands, and resorts. The things that are being done here will absolutely blow your mind. It's not everyday you get to say you saw an indoor ski resort in the middle of the desert. Hopefully you take the time to view this link and see all the beauty the world has to offer

Sahand Reiisieh

http://www.oddee.com/item_88597.aspx

Photoshop: It's Obvious

Error Level Analysis. Mainly used for JPEG pictures, ELA is used to verify if a JPEG image is resaved. How does it work? Everytime you re-save a JPEG image, it gets recompressed and it loses quality.

But how exactly does it work?

"Error level analysis allows you see to see the difference in quality level, represented by brightness. Things which are very bright have been edited most recently, whilst duller parts have been resaved multiple times. This allows you to see not just which parts of the image have been changed, but in what order the changes occurred." (Image Forensics)

Here is an online tool you can use to possibly verify if an image has been photoshopped. It's not 100% perfect and should be taken with a grain of salt. Photoshopping occurs almost anywhere and we are so blind-sided by magazines and online pictures that what we expect to be perfection, is actually just photoshopped distress.

http://errorlevelanalysis.com/ (Image Forensics)

-Cole Turner

TYPOPHILE FILM FESTIVAL

Hello everyone!

This video that I'm about to share with you all is an awesome opening titles for the Typophile Film Festival created by BYU (Brigham Young University) students. The 5th Typophile Film Festival opening titles are a visual typographic feast about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enchance our creativity. If you have not seen it definitely check it out. Very inspirational.

The best part of it all is everything in the film is real and there was no CG (computer generated imagery) used. The way the materials react with each other and combining the objects enrich this film and viewing experience. It looked like a lot of fun to make this film! Read the fully story here.

Enjoy!

Don't forget to turn on your sound :)

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

Michelle Hy

BLOGGER

Just a reminder, our index.html page for our project one will be due by Thursday's class meeting.

So we'll need to do this on Dreamweaver and have something to show for it by then.

I have a blogsite on here too that you may want to check out.

www.avalonomega.blogspot.com

And if you're in the mood to learn something new check this out too:

www.youtube.com/avalonomega


-Avalon Varada

Webby Award Inspiration

The Webby Awards is an awards show that is completely dedicated to celebrating the best sites on the internet. The awards are given in particular genres like ART, GAMES, and FASHION. They also favor exceptional design over anything clunky, unintelligent and cumbersome. Although it may be impossible for us to replicate the things the award winners do, it's a good habit to keep up-to-date on what the most cutting edge websites are doing in aesthetics and design.

Check out last year's winners in visual design aesthetics!

-Justin Miyamoto

GOOGLE IT!!!

If you ever don't know how to do something don't be afraid to google it. I have found out that it has helped me out. There are other helpful sites that I've found, when I get to them again I'll post them.

- Josh Reinus

Using Quirksmode for Browser Compatibility

One issue that most all web designers and developers face is the issue of cross-browser compatibility. Various Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) properties are not supported by all browsers the same, and therefore, should be programmed with the mindset of having a backup or legacy support for other browsers.

Quirksmode lists almost any Cascading Style Sheet property. and how each browser supports it.

http://www.quirksmode.org/

It also has the list of master table support, which lists the overall general support of each coding method for each Internet Browser.

http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html

-Cole Turner.

Hey Check this page out!

Hey, I found a really cool place that can help you with your HTML and web design. The address is http://w3schools.com/ On w3schools, you can view the color palette for web safe colors and several other features such as HTML coding.

Brandon Bracamontes

Padding & Margin

Padding and Margin are two Cascading Style Sheet properties that are used to create spacing. To understand both properties, you must look at the element you are wanting to space as a box. When you want to create space on the outside of the box and parent/sibling elements, you use margin. When you want to put space on the inside of the box, between the border and child elements: you use padding.

Margin is also effective at centering objects. Various browsers do not support the same properties the exact same way. For example, Internet Explorer does not center wrapping elements the same way Firefox or Google Chrome does. To center a wrapping div, you must use the CSS property: "margin: 0px auto;" When using two values for a margin property, the first value represents the top and bottom margin, while the second value represents the left and right margins. Using the value "auto" is possible, but only when the parent's respective width or height values are set. In this case, the respective value is set by the browser's native CSS values. However, in this case using "auto" for the top and bottom would not work because the body's height property is not set.

Spacing is important because it provides clarity to your page, and allows you to work effectively to put content in the place that your viewers most likely read.

-Cole Turner.

Cookies

Cookies taste good, and I enjoy eating them. But some websites use cookies to spy on you!!!Oh NO. Well obviously its not a real cookie, its a web cookie. Basicly a web cookie is a small software some website automatically install on your computer when you visit their website, once its installed the software will record all things you do on the internet, and finally send the information back to the corporation, all without you knowing anything. A large corporation such as google uses them to "help you get better search results" - or at least this is what they claim. Sure cookies might help you get better search results but it also ruins all online privacy, and who likes to be monitored all the time... not me. Well there is an solution. There is an option in your browser to ask if you want to accept cookies, say no and your computer will reject all cookies, but now every time you encounter a cookie there will be a pop-up where you have to say okay, which in the long run will ruin your browsing. But there is a better solutions. I use the software CCleaner to clean my computer from the cookies. When I'm done browsing turn on CCleaner and all the cookies will be destroyed.

-Oliver Grau

Typography

Typography is the idea or concept of font and text. Utilizing typography is important to the viewers of your website because you should utilize text that is pleasant to the eye, as well as ergonomic. Using a black background with white text might seem like a good idea for MySpace, but not if you're creating an online article on how to repair a car engine. Using Comic Sans might sound appropriate if you're creating a comic book, but not if you're publishing a peer reviewed journal on the causes of cancer.

The important thing about Typography is understanding the purpose for your text. Question yourself about the audience that will read this text and put yourself in their place. Make sure your text is readable, aesthetically pleasing, and not a strain for the eye.

Important properties of Typography include: margin, padding, line-height, and letter-spacing. Margin and padding are important because they allow you to place and space your text. Line-height and letter-spacing are important factors to the readability of your text. You want your text to be legible, and these factors should be taken into consideration.

Stylization is different from the form factors of Typography. Color, style, decoration, and other factors are the basic implementations of stylization in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Color is important because it creates a contrast and can set a mood. Style allows you to italicize or bold your text. Decoration is useful if you'd like to underline a specific portion of text. There are other factors such as text-shadow which are also useful to providing a specific style, which not only affects the mood of the text but the legibility as well.

A last approach to Typography includes how you input the text itself. You wouldn't want to type your entire paragraph in all capital letters. Utilizing paragraphs, line breaks, and capitalization are important towards stylization and legibility.

-Cole Turner

The O'reilly books

The O'reilly published books are great for computer technology. I have used them in my personal studies of certain programming language. Their site is http://oreilly.com/ . I highly recommend them if you want to learn more about computers.

Chris Brown

DEVIANTArt:Website Suggestion for Images and Other Media for Future Projects

http://www.deviantart.com/

This is a source for those who do not know about it this website and are in need of pictures, poems, etc.

You can find some pretty incredible people around here with talents and styles that vary greatly. And if there are some works you really like you can do a lot of things like commenting and bookmarking after you make an account. And no need to worry about having to pay, because signing up for one is FREE. Unless you want to go premium, but that's something entirely different.

As for borrowing the work of others most of them do not have a problem with it as long as you credit them, but it's best to ask if they specifically write it down in their 'info summary box' below the work.

And if you can't seem to get a hold of the artists answer in time, that's not a problem either. Because generally what happens when you save the media to your computer the title of the file contains the creators name so that you'll remember who to credit. I've used this site numerous times for both projects and personal self-expression on websites, and I hope that it will be a place that many of you will find useful and fun to explore.

Happy Searching~ ^______^ Y

Patricia B.

Question

is the rough draft due on Tuesday or Thursday?

-Leo P.

HTML5?

HTML is a term we by now all should be familiar with. We learned it the first day of web design, and you probably all wrote its definition down into your notebooks – Hyper Text Markup Language. After doing some research concerning project one, I encountered the term HTML5. I had no idea of the existence of HTML 1-2-3-4 but call me a geek because for some reason I looked it up. I ended up on Wikipedia where a list of differences from HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.X (sigh, even the coding tool’s name’s looks like a codes) were listed and analyzed. I found that “a number of new elements and attributes that reflect typical usage on the modern website” were introduced. The syntax is no longer based on SGML, or Standard Generalized Markup Language (I looked it up). The list goes on and on, and if you’re interested in learning more check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

- Oliver Grau

BE MY FRIEND!!!

I'm really looking forward to getting to know the rest of you. I think this blog is a great idea. I can't wait to see what you are all reading, learning, and working on. A problem that I'm finding is that I have no clue which people on the blog correlate to the people in class.

I really want to talk to Cole Turner about what kind of webwork he has done, but I have no clue what he looks like. So, I'm posting this image of myself, linking to my facebook profile, just to extend the invitation for you to come up to me in-person or get to know me more.

I love talking about and sharing influences on design and even helping people out on little assignments (where I can). So don't be afraid to come talk to me in class.

-Justin Miyamoto

p.s. The photo up-top is a photo my friend Stephanie and I had taken at a dance club in Hollywood. I've been searching my hard-drive for photos for this self-portrait project we need to do. Fun stuff. Oh the memories! Hope to have some pretty awesome memories in this class as well.

check these out!!!!

Hello everyone, just wanted to share some fascinating works of sidewalk chalk art with you all. the pictures in the link below are all 3D works of art done on sidewalks using only chalk. There are some spectacular and amazing pictures. It's crazy to believe the works of art that can be created and their clarity by the use of something as simple as chalk!!!! Enjoy

http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/09/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art-photos/

Sahand Reiisieh

Check Out These Amazing Works !!!

Hello everyone, just wanted to share some fascinating works of sidewalk chalk art with you all. the pictures in the link below are all 3D works of art done on sidewalks using only chalk. There are some spectacular and amazing pictures. It's crazy to believe the works of art that can be created and their clarity by the use of something as simple as chalk!!!! Enjoy

http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/09/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art-photos/

Sahand Reiisieh

Always keep an open mind

Hey class, I hope everyone had a good weekend. When I was thinking of what to write for this blog I started thinking of the whole "back to school" mentality and how sometimes it can be a drag. So if you'd like my advice, I think the best thing to do is not let yourself get trapped in the grip of the college madness. I say this because we all know how easy it is to let our lives (during the semester) dissolve down to just class, homework, and midterms. While a strong and focused work ethic is necessary to succeed, I believe a rejuvenated sense of "fun" is just as necessary to maintain focus. With this in mind, I say finish your homework and study for your test first and then get the heck outside and allow yourself to return the years when you were just a kid. Go exploring, go on an adventure, get a friend in your car and just drive without a destination in mind. Get out and do something crazy that you thought you'd never do (something that wont land you in jail lol). Something that has helped me through my four years in college is a frequently updated "bucket list." Write down all the things you want to do during college and post them up on your fridge, desk, dashboard, or whatever. Just looking at a list like that will hopefully drive you to actually get out there and start checking things off. For one last thought, I leave you with a quote by Hunter S. Thompson who said, "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'holy shit...what a ride!"

Jonathan Silva

Labor Day Weekend!

Hey class. I hope everyone is doing okay using Dreamweaver so far. I've been having trouble so far just because it really is a chain of steps and if you miss one then it is hard to get back on track. I like that the class seems to want to help each other out and I think if we continue that way we can learn and have a good time in class. Have a good weekend everybody! - Miguel F.

First Blog, Week 2

The Year just barely started and it seems like I've learned so much already. Right now I run an amateur Game Studio out of my garage and basically I have to do everything. Some Friends are working with me that I drafted for their special talents but they all need a lot of software training. I'm hoping that with this class I'll be able to design the fancy websites that major studios have for their games and also gain a better understanding of how coding works.

As far as useful info. umm...If anybody needs and 3d work I can help. My studio is always looking for people to join up. We're not just limited to games either, it's pretty much anything that has to do with electronics and the digital age.
-Matthew "Red Comet" Blancher

Umm...Yeah

I've never used dreamweaver before and got stuck,like a lot, but hopefully I'll get used to it.I really don't know what to say, but here's a website I used in high school for quotes. www.quotegarden.com
Hope it helps

-Leo P.

Introduction

Since most of you guys are introducing yourselves, here's my introduction. My name is Jonriel Nicart and I'm a sophomore majoring in Kinesiology. It's been a roller coaster ride from the start of this semester. I was originally enrolled in this class but then suddenly, a week before school started, I got disenrolled from ALL my classes. Financial Aid department this year did well on informing students of important things due. Sigh. So I had to crash all of my classes all over again. Some classes I couldn't even enroll in anymore due to the high amount of students adding the class also. I was discouraged at first but my friends kept pushing me to find classes. In total, I have crashed 11 classes so far. From going to classes to emailing professors, I've been looking for classes nonstop until now. Today, I got a permission number for one of the classes I've crashed and that's all I needed to be a full time student. So now I don't have to worry about not being a full time student. I can relax now.

This class has been very interesting and helpful so far. I've done basic html codes to customize my blogging or social networking sites but I want to further learn more about the different ways of using codes. I've also recently started getting into photoshop. I don't have any experience in it at all. Whenever I try and edit an image, I blank out on what to do. There are so many options! So if anyone else in this class has CS5 and can teach me some basics on it, I'd gladly appreciate it. I'm quite friendly so don't hesitate to talk to me. Get to know me! Here are some of my links:

http://www.facebook.com/jonriel.nicart
http://jonrielnicart.tumblr.com

I'm looking forward to having a great semester in this class. So let's make the best of it!

-Jonriel Nicart

(: excited but nervous

Im kinda (actually a better word would be extremely) bad at dreamweaver haha, which is why project 1 freaks me out. I think its a cool idea though... wish me luck =]
I'm psyched~
-jasmine a.

Smashing Magazine

For those who are new or are learning web design, I have found that Smashing Magazine is a great resource for design, tutorials, examples, and tips for web design. It has a showcase of new and interesting designs, as well as tutorials on how to design and stay up to date on the latest trends of web design.




Many valuable resources are posted on Smashing Magazine, including icon sets, logos, fonts, and wallpaper. When you first visit the site, the navigation makes it easy to fulfill the purpose you desire. If you're looking for inspiration, you can view the galleries that artists submit.

Overall, it's a great website that any web designer or developer should keep bookmarked.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

-Cole Turner

Worried!

Hello fellow classmates!
I'm a bit worried about the first quiz that's due today
since the exercise on tuesday was a bit confusing to me.
hope everyone does well on it! :-)

-Joan Luo

What up....

Ok so this is my first post. I pretty much don't know what to say... So what up this class is pretty cool so far... Anyways my name is Brian Miller I am a business major formally a Jazz Music major. I've pretty much worked with every CS program except dreamweaver and done very minimal work in flash(basically I don't know flash...) Yeah, I am totally in class right now. Hope this is a fun semester for you guys as well... Peace Out...


Brian Miller

Hey Everyone!!

I'm having a hard time thinking about what to blog about, so I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Jackie Escobedo and I am an Undeclared sophomore. I've always loved working with computers and the internet, so naturally, I was drawn to this course's description. I'm most looking forward to sharing links on here and also, creating my own website, as that's something I've always wanted to do, but never had the tools to do so. I love photography, so taking photos is definitely a favorite hobby of mine. I'm also really into music, concert-going, and making new friends...So, can't wait to meet you all!

Good luck and here's to a good semester! (:

Jacqueline Escobedo

The first post

So here I am sitting in the web art waiting for class to start, its the 4th lessons and were already in Dreamweaver coding websites. I have little experience with web design and no experience with Dreamweaver so the last lesson was a little frustrating at times, but the final outcome of our single page website actually looked like a website... I suppose thats because we used a template instead of creating the DIV tags on our own. God bless Adobe for creating Dreamweaver, Photoshop and all the other useful software programs we will use, so we don't have to do the coding.

-Oliver Grau

Greetings~

Hello everyone, thought I'd try the blog out to send my greetings. It's been a while since I've written one. Honestly I didn't think I'd be able to get into a class like this, what with the many hit and misses I've had for a while when adding class. But I'm glad I did cause it looks like this class will be quite interesting. I only know a few things about web designing through some websites that give you the opportunity, although I mostly made the designs through customizable sites that do it for you, so this'll be good exposure to the things I usually do for fun.

Hope I get to work with everyone in the class and that we'll be looking forward to more pleasant weather for the next few weeks.

-Patricia Balleser

Question

This may sound really silly, but how do you leave a comment on someone's post WITH your name? Do you just write your name in the comment?

- Kaytlen Weller

welcome class!

my name is Mauro Maroquin and i an a sophomore. i originaly was a kinesiology major but i felt that using my left side of my brain was getting hard and boring so i decided to change to art and re awaken the right side of my brain. this class is interesting and i enjoy the fact that it alows me to be creative. i hope to learn much from this class and apply it to my everyday life and career.

Mauro Marroquin