I had a great time teaching my Drupal Basics for Libraries class for Lyrasis. It includes a good grounding in CMS basics, including how those differ from what many of us think of as traditional web design. Anyhow, the class will be repeated in June, so, just keep an eye out. This is not content that I can share, but I do remind you that ...
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graphic design / moonshine covers
Like | robinna | Mar 4, 2010 | Design, my art, my projects, publishing
As I finish readying moonshine arts magazine for re-launch and migration to Drupal, I thought you might like a snapshot of the covers from the past few years: It’s kind of funny, I rarely do graphic design at work (too many fighting over such a small slice of the pie) that I think people forget I do alot of graphic design and digital art, in ...
Survey us…
Like | robinna | Feb 22, 2010 | Design, my projects
UGA Libraries are looking for site feedback in preparation for a site redesign. The Web Advisory Group is working on a new look for the UGA Libraries home page, http://www.libs.uga.edu As we begin the redesign process, our first step is to gather feedback. We want to find out what works and what doesn’t as far as the current home page is concerned, and to get ...
RDA vocabulary (article)
Like | robinna | Feb 20, 2010 | Design, Libraries, metadata, semantic web
http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.htmlAbstract“The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes thateffort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use withinthe library community and in addition as a bridge to the future oflibrary data outside the current MARC-based systems. The authors also touch ...
Illusion: Insight into visual design elements
Like | robinna | Feb 17, 2010 | Design, Life, life 2.0+, my projects, webdesign
Covers the most basic elements of webdesign: layout, fonts, whitespace, color theory; additionally encompasses fundamental guidelines and findings regarding how users use the web.Btw, my portion is more of the design stuff. Oh, and this is a google presentation so the design of the presentation itself is a little fugly. 😉 Illusion Insights Into Visual Design Elements View more presentations from robinfay.
Free mobile learning/education webinar
Like | robinna | Feb 16, 2010 | Design, Libraries, mobile, Training, training / tutorials, web 2.0+
Sorry for the late notice, this just came across my desk.As far as I can see, it is free.——————————-https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/948880016 Mobile Learning Fundamentals: Innovation Showcase and Real-World Examples – Presented by A.J. Ripin with special guest, Dr. David Metcalf The way that we live, work, play, and learn is being impacted by the increasing mobility of our global society. As leaders, it is our responsibility to ...
So, what does an Emerging Technologies Group talk about?
Like | robinna | Feb 15, 2010 | Design, my projects, social media
Thought you’d never ask…Here is the agenda for Weds. afternoon meeting of the Emerging Technologies Group… we are still playing with our acronym ET or EMT… I kind of like EMT.Robin = me (I chair, btw…)————– Agenda 2/17/2010 Tie up RSS/multimedia pages (Robin/Amy) — any lingering questions or issues? (webpages created to highlight our multimedia and also all of the feeds we are generating…) Libraries ...
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Facebook changes (more new ones!)
Like | robinna | Feb 5, 2010 | Design, Life, life 2.0+, social media
Just in case you weren’t one of the 800000 to be surprised with a new version of facebook yesterday, you can read all about it at mashable. Also, lots of broke stuff at facebook today: likes missing, PM not working, etc. Sigh. I wish they would give us a bit of break before they roll out a new change, or perhaps, allow us to opt ...
It maybe an “Apple” day, but… (humor)
Like | robinna | Jan 27, 2010 | Design
so, apple has a new gizmo (will it take on the kindle? hard to say…) , but the apple humor is full force… and from the onion… CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple’s new tablet computer. “Come on, Steve, ...
Call for Papers (Web apps conference)
Like | robinna | Dec 10, 2009 | Design, web 2.0+
I'm writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the USENIX Conference on Web Application Development (WebApps '10) is approaching.Please submit your paper titles and abstracts by January 4, 2010, and your complete papers by January 11, 2010.The Call for Papers, with submission guidelines, can be found at http://www.usenix.org/webapps10/cfpb/WebApps '10 is a new technical conference designed to bring together experts in all aspects of ...