For a long time it looked like Google had the search engine competition closed up, but now there seems to be new activity. A few weeks ago a completely new search engine was released, called Wolfram|Alpha. Interestingly it seems to take a step back and use people to catalog the best information. It does not [...]
Entries from May 30th, 2009
RSS feeds
May 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Web
RSS feeds are one of my favorite aspects of the Web 2.0 ‘revolution’:
Almost all blogs (this blog and the forum included), new sites and the main web 2.0 sites (Facebook, Flickr, ….) all publish these standardized data streams. Basically, RSS is a standard for the formatting of news information: every article has a publication date, [...]
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Asset list and time sheet
May 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
In the assignments I mention that you should keep an asset list and a timesheet. These are two elements of the documentation of the web development process.
Link to asset list
Link to timesheet
The asset list is a record of all the external files you added to your site, i.e. any images, sound files, … that are [...]
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Adobe software purchase
May 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
As we talked about in Tuesday’s class, you will need some Adobe software for this class (Dreamweaver and Photoshop) and for other classes in the program. Due to the short length of the semester, you can get by with the 30-day demo versions that can be downloaded from Adobe’s web site (Wait until we use the [...]
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Online class last alert
May 19th, 2009 · Comments Off · Announcements
Online class is almost ready to start.
Go to http://virtualtraining.bloomu.edu
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Password questions?
May 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · Announcements
If you have problems with your bu email/centra/saba username or password, please contact Tina Barnes at 570-389-4618, tbarnes@bloomu.edu
For problems with the course websites, iitweb.bloomu.edu/blogs/web/ or iit.bloomu.edu/doll/login.cfm please contact me, hdoll@bloomu.edu.
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Tuesday night online class
May 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · Announcements
The semester is about to start!
On Tuesday night, we will meet online at http://virtualtraining.bloomu.edu/
You will need to use your BU email account information to log in: your username is ‘10′ followed by the first part of your email address, e.g. 10hd26777. The password is the same as your email password.
Since we are going to use audio, [...]
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