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Archive for September 2010

now, adding a touch of style ;)

30/09/2010 Comments Off

As you’ve now coded your first few pages – it is time to transform the basic default layout into something more pleasing to the eye :)
Time for some CSS  — time to meet our master :)

Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer
photo: August 19, 2008 © Adrian Q

Regardless of who you ask – if they are writing CSS – no doubt, they will have learnt from Eric. continue reading ➤

REDU ‘Manifesto’ Animation

28/09/2010 3 Comments

LET’S REDU from Redu on Vimeo.

REDU is an Education Reform destination resulting from a collaboration between CAA, Bing, Task Force and Good Magazine, among others.

The video is a 2-minute stop-motion animation explaining what REDU is all about. It was created almost entirely in-camera, and hand-made from literally thousands of individually cut blocks. Narration by Davis Guggenheim.

quoted from huntergatherer.net, sept 2009

MDN -:- JavaScript

25/09/2010 Comments Off

MDN -:- JavaScript - promo icon

For those of you interested in learning Javascript at some point – let me give you the link to an exhaustive reference library which is up to date and uses good working practices :)

There are countless resources and tutorials online, a lot of repetition and also wrong information. It can be daunting and confusing to get started – and this is the best place to do just that.

Photoshop working methods

24/09/2010 Comments Off


to brush up on a few important working methods – here is a tutorial which covers various different working techniques for image editing and manipulation.

  1. basic selection – perfect first time…
  2. image cut out – cut/copy to new layer
  3. colour adjustment
      ➢ option 1: adjustment layer
      ➢ option 2: colour layer
  4. creating a shadow using channels

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handcoding – let’s get started :)

23/09/2010 Comments Off

Before we get started with writing the actual code - a few words on XHTML and HTML5.
If you currently go online and try to pick up on which web coding related topics are hot - you will come across an ever growing number of HTML5 articles, references and galleries. HTML5 is no doubt the future and we will learn about this later on in the year. HTML5 is exciting and I'm looking forward to teaching you about it when the time comes.

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