Posts tagged: web design

Organize your HTML coding!

One of the biggest problems with HTML that I am sure everyone using it has come across, is becoming so overwhelmed by the density of the coding, that it becomes extremely time consuming sifting through a page of coding just to find the one little section that you want to edit. This issue can be [...]

Monday October 18th, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

The Power of Simplicity

Today I stumbled across an incredibly effective website and it made me think of just how effective simplicity and sophistication among web pages can be in this day and age. The website was for the Parklife Music Festival, a one-day outdoor dance music event, which is held every year in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. As [...]

Friday October 1st, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

Hypertext Essay Concept

We have now, finally, begun to form our concept for our Hypertext Essay, and it is hopefully going to be something that hasn’t been seen before. We had an incredibly long think about how we were going to create an original idea that would reflect the main aspects behind the concept of a Hypertext web [...]

Tuesday September 28th, 2010 in , , , , | 1 Comment »

The difference between CSS and HTML

I presume we will be learning how to use CSS within our Hypertext essays over the next couple of weeks when we begin to actually construct them, which will be great because I am actually not too familiar with CSS. I am comfortable with my HTML skills, as they had developed strongly through the creation [...]

Wednesday September 22nd, 2010 in , , , , | No Comments »

The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

After browsing around on the internet to get some inspiration and ideas for designing the hypertext essay, I came across an awesome website. This website is promoting the book, THE PRINCIPLES OF BEAUTIFUL WEB DESIGN, and even though the website is expected to be amazing as it is promoting a book on web design, it [...]

Saturday September 18th, 2010 in , , | No Comments »

Page Layout

I think the first step in creating a web page will focus closely on the particular layout type, which you feel would be appropriate for your site. This comes down to what you intend to communicate through your website, as discussed within this weeks lecture (and the last post). This mainly involves determining if you [...]

Monday September 13th, 2010 in , , | 2 Comments »

Web Design

In this week’s lecture we had an interesting presentation from Dr. Miek Dunbar, who specializes in Web Design. This lecture was particularly important for me, as I found much of the information useful as we begin to design our Hypertext essay for the second part of the assignment. Miek’s main statement for the significance of [...]

New-age web browsing

As the web’s content is decentralized and distributed throughout the web, information must be presented and organized appropriately in order for a particular web page or series of interconnected web pages to be successful in their intentions. Therefore, in this week’s lecture, Hugh Davies stepped in to shed some light on the art of creating [...]

Friday September 10th, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »

The Duck

When I first got my new Macbook pro, I honestly clicked on Cyberduck and various other programs based solely on their pretty logo. When these horribly complex programs popped up, I have to admit I did scream a little bit and close them straight away. Now after doing NM, I have come to know this [...]

Saturday July 31st, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »