is wordpress killing web design?

just an interesting question?

video of a panel discussion at sxsw.

whaddya think?

Street with a View - a cute little thing

Here's a link to a site I came across that reflects some of the stuff we learned when doing the locative project. It's a nice little thing that a group of residents around Pittsburgh’s Northside did. They staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue,etc. but they did it when the Google Street View van was coming around. So the Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform. They boast that it is the "first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View".

Ted Fields- Interactive Story Thread

Drew McElvain - Technical problem

There were two simple things I was ahving problems with but were driving me crazy.

I found this great quick resource for getting your page to stay centered on the screen here


Another problem I was having was with saving images with transparent backgrounds in Photoshop. I found out that images saved as jpegs would not have transparent background but gifs, tiffs and pngs do.

Jeremy Hill Technical Question

It would be nice to go over spry menus. I'm a little confused on what purpose they serve, and how to do them, but they sound useful. Also for any other technical question involving dreamweaver/photoshop/flash, go to youtube and you can probably fin help on the tutvid channel

Jeremy

I had a problem understanding divs in general, and how to modify its properties.This was a good site that i used. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/

For my Final project i wanted to see what can i use to pull data from Google in my own way, orhow to embed search boxes into a website. The bellow were excellent resources for this:

http://www.google.com/uds/samples/apidocs/helloworld.html
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/ (API Documentation)

Emmanuel Hernandez

Using Spry Menus

So I've been fiddling with spry menus for my page and found it difficult to customize. Only because I didn't know what I was doing. I immediately hit the endless fields of the internets.

So according to the adobe site, which was tedious to read but very helpful, it is important to organize your spryassets folder before doing anything. Check out this link to see what they say when preparing your site folders. You should have a spry ZIP file from the adobe labs site. Now to be honest, I didn't do this. But I feel like I ran into a lot of problems later because my folders were not organized in the way that they advised. It was even to the extent of modifying the widget and not even seeing a result so I'm sure this would be helpful.

My concern was with customizing the spry menu toolbars. Now when modifying the widget you need to know the CSS rules for whatever you are customizing and there is no way around that. Most of what we would be using are the basic spry menus so they might probably look like this SpryMenuBarHorizontal.css and SpryMenuBarVertical.css. Here's a good link that explains how to customize the widgets at a very general level - this is good for an intro. Once you're done with that, hit this up. This link will go into more depth in explaining how to customize the different parts of the widget.

I wish I had a way of showing you what I was going through in order to articulate what I really learned. But I still wanted to share the resources that I came across because I found them helpful.

Good luck to all with your projects.

- Jay Mohan