Turns out Zayna and I are in the same boat with color – red to be precise, which is a fabulous color, but difficult to use correctly. I also commented on Clay’s discussion of color, which in my mind sparked a “what’s better” debate: good content on a non-designed site or gorgeous design and so-so…
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Data Visualization & The Historian
I was looking forward to revisiting Edward Tufte this week. In 2000, I scammed a free trip to one of Tufte’s day-long seminars in Crystal City. At the time, I was working for Sallie Mae as one of their web content writers and often, my work required drilling down complicated loan details into digestible webby…
Purpose-Built Content
I finished up my Type assignment last night. Like most of our other classmates who’ve expressed such things, I spent an inordinate amount of time on it. Even still, I’m not totally happy with it. For the final project, I might do what Ruel did and use a graphic for my rule instead of that…
This Week’s Blog Discussions
I commented on Carrie’s discussion of online reading and text length, Kellie’s wrangling of text for her project, Roger’s talk of backgrounds and Laura’s talk of Techies and Fuzzies. I also commented on Clay’s piece about disorientation and irrationality, Sasha’s Plan B and Erika’s punctuation issues.
Oh, Oh The Places You’ll Go
When I found out that I had been accepted into the PhD program, my husband bought me a new laptop. It was sweet and very thoughtful and he said that he had no doubt that me and my new laptop would become the best of friends. And so far, we’ve been joined at the hip….
Success and Comments for the Week Ending 2/15
Update: thank you to those who helped me online and off. Thanks to Sasha, your suggestion to remove the quotation marks from the font URL string in my CSS worked like a charm, and Alex and Alexa, I got the opacity to work in PhotoShop! So now I’ve embedded the script font I wanted and…