Asides

I took advantage of the torrential rain yesterday and made some great progress on my design assignment. All of my assignments to date have been designed in such a way to allow me to play with my final project design, so I tried to take all the neat things that I liked from my past…

Carrie and I had a discussion about her fabulously yellow design project and her image map on her blog. I also commented on Alexa’s plea for kick-ass and innovative history sites. I also commented on Kellie’s thoughts on interactivity and 3-D.

I’ve accomplished 3 minor victories, and now, the weekend is over, which means my ever-growing project to-do list is going to have to wait until Wednesday. Still, I am very pleased with myself. Not everything is how I’d like it and I can’t for the life of me figure out pop-up positioning, but I’ll get…

I commented on Zayna’s post with some well-timed (?) Alice in Wonderland references and on Lisa’s post about how awesome Ted.com is.

I’m finding that as the weeks go on, I’m thinking more and more about how I want my final project to look. So this week’s readings on usability were slightly overwhelming, if not perfectly timed. It’s as if every week, with each additional reading, we get one more thing to think about or take into…

Hooray and thanks to Laura who provided us with a link to WAVE, a very useful website to help us “test” our sites for accessibility. (As I, like most of you, couldn’t get the screen reader simulator to work on my browser.) There were a couple of best practices types comments, which I will heed…