Category: Web Design

  • Mike’s Tutoring Website. I spent most of today trying to make my jquery slideshow work. How it actually did, I am not sure. (What a tangled web of files, I did weave.) I tried to download some files from the internet, but it didn’t seem to work. I kept seeing my slideshow as a static…

  • I wanted to expand my web design portfolio, so I hit up one of my friends who has been making low efforts at marketing his tutoring services. I sent Mike an email with a list of discovery questions like “What is the company personality – what tone is appropriate for your organization?” His visual brand…

  • As part of my last assignment in Web Design Bootcamp, we are to take a snapshot of Responsive Websites in the Summer of 2012. (What is Responsive? I love this article that answers that question.) This is a fun exercise. We are the Darwins of the Web, looking for interesting variations on the finch. They…

  • L’opera Shmopera Website. I spent a few hours today in coder’s world. I created different CSS sprites for the nav bar– the other ones were a little messy (different size fonts/kerning, etc.) and notice that I have an extra button with a piece missing so it would integrate into the bugs bunny image (which is…

  •   I made my first gif! I did it using Gifninja. It’s part of my Web Design Bootcamp project to create a banner ad. I chose this standard size of 400×240 px. First, I took an painting I made and isolated my unicorn. Then copied it and cropped it differently for my background. I added…

  • Last monday, the class was instructed by Erik Fadiman on jquery slideshows and audio in html 5. I was a bit defeated by all the code that seemed to melt between my fingers. I still can’t fathom how there is not really an undo button. So, what happened? I had made a foundation of code…

  • Last summer, I started a blog called Science for Artists. It’s a blog for my favorite excerpts and syntheses of my summer reading. Today, I found a link to this article on my Twitter, NPR’s article ”When Art Meets Science, You’ll Get The Picture” by Nancy Shute. It resurrected feelings I feel about art, science and design and how…

  • how to make a facebook page like richard karstom step 1. Print screen your facebook profile. step 2. Open Adobe Photoshop step 3. Click crop tool. specify width of 851 pixels and height of 315 pixels. step 4. crop image to get a nice border around the area where the cover photo goes. step.5. Open…