I think this is going to be the last “new tool of the day” – Drawter for planning page layouts and then generating the HTML/CSS to support them. It’s not an end point – for example, the max width would seem to be c. 640 px – and not possible to use % for layout….
Susan Sedro has listed a set of sites that allow the creation of comic strips. I’d not even known such tools existed. At the moment, I’m not quite sure what I could use them for, though I’m sure I’ll think of something. Encouraging students to visit the Tutor Centre/ ASK / The Library perhaps….
InfoTangle :: Information Design for the New Web a long post, but useful points made re. information (and in particular visual design) of the “New Web” (web 2.0, social web etc)….
Slashdot has a discussion about the fact that all of the patents that covered gif have now expired. I suspect that it won’t have much impact on the graphics world – especially as .png is finally becoming more used. It’s going to take a long time for people to stop using .gif in favour of…
Robin Good reviews Citrix’s GoToMeeting. It seems to be a pretty impressive tool, though not Free, so perhaps not ideal for students to experiment with. He also links to a post he made a few days ago, which has an overview of what he feels are the differences between “Screen sharing” and “application sharing” –…
Jakob Nielsen’s in his alertbox looks at the current statistics for screen resolution and recommends that designers should optimise for a 1024 screen, while still ensuring that it works at lower and higher settings. He points out that while 60% of users have a screen set at 1024, not all users (especially as the resolution…
I’ve had a few posts recently that have seemingly mangled my blog. From what I can tell, it seems to be things that have iframes. This morning a student emailed me to say that he’d wanted to comment on a post, but wasn’t able to. I checked a random post and was able to comment,…
Max Kiesler has a useful list of articles about Ajax & Accessibility….
Anne Davis has started to put together a useful wiki with resources about the use of blogs for learning….
DrawDoc While this is also going to go in the tools section I’m just creating, I’ll also post about it here. I was reading about this in one of Scott Leslie’s posts, and so I thought I’d have a play. In another tab I had Josie’s post about Blog.ac.uk 2006 open, so pasted the first…