Why have a wrapper div?
Students may have a problem grasping is the need for a wrapper div. I frequently find myself explaining it numerous times until the message finally sinks in. The metaphor I’ll use today will be to...
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Resources for Material Design
Material Design is a set of design principles created by Google for developers creating apps for Android. They call it a design language. The concepts don’t apply only to Android, of course. Some of...
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Interactive Video: Think of the Possibilities for Education
Scene from Jack Black’s “That Black Bat Licorice” video I’ve seen a couple of interactive videos recently. One was an version of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.” In the Bob Dylan video, you use up...
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Review: Badass: Making Users Awesome
product Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra is from O’Reilly (2015). This book is about motivation and skills and progress and brain science. It shows you how to use motivation and skill...
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Suggestions from a Web Educator for the Dreamweaver Folks at Adobe
I’ve been teaching Dreamweaver again. Yeah, I do it all the time, I know. I have some ideas about what Dreamweaver needs to do to make life easier for newbies who haven’t been using the product forever...
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O’Reilly EBook: Design for Voice Interfaces
O’Reilly Media is offering an ebook called Design for Voice Interfaces: Building Products that Talk by Laura Klein. It’s only 30 pages long and worth reading. It gives a brief background, talks about...
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Flash is Dead. Long Live Animate
Flash has had a few hard years. HTML5 whupped its ass. So it’s going away. Sort of. In its place, Adobe will give us Animate CC, which loses the loser of a name but retains much of the function. There...
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Broadband Use Drops Slightly; Smart Phone Use Climbs
The Pew Research Center released a new survey on home broadband use in 2015 that has implications for web designers. The overall finding is that fewer people have home broadband, while more people rely...
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5 Cool New Color Scheme Tools
How do you pick a color scheme for your design projects? Do you browse various color palettes? Perhaps you employ tried-and-true color wheels. Both are good ways to develop color schemes, but if you...
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Review: Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine
product Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine by Melissa Ford is from Que Publishing (2016). This book is part software manual, part writing workshop. The software described in the book, Twine, is...
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