Art Teacher Forum Tag: web design

Art Teacher Forum Tag: web design http://www.artteacherforum.com/ Art Teacher Forum Tag: web design en Wed, 14 May 2008 06:17:12 +0000 dawnsbrain on "New design for class Web site" http://www.artteacherforum.com/topic/22#post-47 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:25:24 +0000 dawnsbrain 47@http://www.artteacherforum.com/ Last month I started building a class website for the coming year. I'll be teaching web design and graphic design. I didn't spend a lot of time planning the design ahead of time. I just wanted to start getting some curriculum ideas down, growing and narrowing the scope of each class. A week or so ago, I started really hating the original design I developed for the site. I've been reading some great books on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), especially about properly separating content from presentation in web coding. I've had some experience with CSS positioning before, but I had still used HTML table in my current site design. I started realizing that I really wanted to teach my web design students all the best habits right from the beginning: DIVs rather than tables for structure, semantic naming conventions, accessibility, and all the proper web standards. My site was not up to par, so I started again from scratch. I've rolled out the new design tonight, and I am just in love with it. <a href="http://www.nhsdesigns.com/archived_073007/">Old design: nhsdesigns.com <img src="http://www.dawnsbrain.com/images/screenshot_nhsdesigns_072907.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.nhsdesigns.com/">New design: nhsdesigns.com <img src="http://www.dawnsbrain.com/images/screenshot_nhsdesigns_073007.gif" /></a> The new banner is composed of a logo I designed in Illustrator plus a photo I took of Red-legged Stilts at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I like how it ended up looking like an ultra-modern magazine. I tried to use colors that are exciting to teens (and myself!) I'm not too proud to show my students what mistakes I made, which is why I'm hanging onto the old design in archives. Feel free to address any problems you see with usability or design. dawnsbrain on "Students can win a scholarship for web design" http://www.artteacherforum.com/topic/19#post-44 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:02:15 +0000 dawnsbrain 44@http://www.artteacherforum.com/ Hurry! The deadline is August 13th! Too late for any of my upcoming web design students. <a href="http://www.collegescholarships.org/our-scholarships/web-design.htm">Win a Scholarship for Your Web Design Entry</a> Scholarship Amount - $5,000 Requirements: * U.S. citizen; * Currently attending full-time in post-secondary education; and * If you win, you must be willing to allow us to list your name, picture, and website on this page. Why a Web Design Contest? We are launching a cool new website, New Scholarships.org, and are in need of a fantastic design to replace the current default WordPress look. Since we are already experienced in handing out scholarship awards, this is a fun way for us to receive a great new website design...and a talented student to receive $5000! How to Submit your New Design: Simply upload your design to a web server, and put the URL in the 'Your New Design' space in the application form below. Please make sure the design is 100% ready to view before you submit your application. This should be a WordPress Template Design. How the Design Entries are Judged: We are having a panel of judges who are experts in web design, programming, or other web-specific activities. The judges will have complete control and the final say as to which web design is the winner. The provider of this scholarship, The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation, leaves the decision totally with the independent panel of judges. No bribing allowed! :) The Deadline: You have until midnight PST on Monday, August 13th, 2007 to make a submission. The winner will be announced on Monday, August 20th, 2007...just in time for the fall semester.