Peer Review Project 2

Alex Murray- I admire the combination of typography to create an image of a human skeletal face structure. This design is very creative and appears simple but is complex to design in code. It conveys a futuristic appearance with the color choice. It looks unfinished but has potential to be perfect in time.

 

Dave Goldhahn-I really like where Dave is going with this design. Though it is unfinished, I can see him adding more of a path with the words and extending it as the user scrolls down. I think the color choice is perfect for the Futuristic Movement. I like the shadow on the title of the page. His layout is one of my favorites.

EXERCISE 5

Students will be given a code with errors that they must identify and correct.

This is a hand out and does not need to be put on the blog.

DESIGNER 5

Tom Anderson

 

Born on October 13, 1975 in Santa Monica, California. He earned two non-computer related degrees of Rhetoric and English from the University of California in Berkeley 1998. He is the Co-Founder and President of MySpace Inc. MySpace is a website that was intended to help people connect with one another and personalize their page with their about me and post on others feeds with music and pictures, etc. His partner of MySpace was Chris DeWolfe whom is now the CEO. Tom later recieved his Master’s in Film from the University of California in Los Angeles in 2000.

Tom was a copywriter and product tester at XDrive in 2000. Unfortunately, XDrive went bankrupt in 2001 then Tom  and Chris  founded a direct marketing company called Response Base together but then sold it to Brad Greenspan’s eUniverse in 2002. Tom’s father was an entrepreneur like himself. He went to San Pasqual High School in Escondido, California. He was a computer hacker whom cracked the security of Chase Manhattan Bank under pseudonym Lord Flathead. Yet he wasn’t arrested because of his age. He was lead singer in a band called Swank. After, Tom spent some time in Taiwan, before returning to the US to do an MA in Critical film studies at University of California.

MySpace was created in 2003, targeted for teens but later because a huge phenomenon of all ages. It was the first popular social networking website on the internet. In July 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s New Corp. bought Myspace Inc for %580,000,000.00. That is a lot of zeros. MySpace at its climax had more than 106,ooo,ooo accounts and 230,000 registers each day.

 

http://www.techlifemashup.com/2010/04/the-entrepreneur-spotlight-tom-anderson/

Exercise 4

PROBLEMS WITH TYPOGRAPHY ON THE WEB?

-Until a few years ago, typography on the web was limited to about 20 fonts.

-Designers need to select certain font families on the web because many of the users will not have the fonts accessible on their computers, therefore it makes it hard for other users to clearly read type and see the full page layout of how the type code is meant to be.

-A Designer should use fronts from such places as: TypeKit, Google Fonts or Dafonts.

DESIGNER 4

Larry Page and Sergey Brin: Inventors of Google

 

Larry Page:

Larry was born on March 26, 1973 in Lansing, Michigan. He now lives in Palo Alto, California.  He is the Co-founder and CEO of Google Inc.  He attended Okemos Montessori School in Michigan in 1975. He graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He created an inkjet printer made of Lego bricks in while in college. He was the President of Eta Kappa Nu and was a member of the 1993 Maize & Blue University Solar Car Team.

He then enrolled in Stanford University for a Ph.D. in Computer Science. While at Stanford he met his Co-founder of Google names Sergey Brin. In 2007, he married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson’s Caribbean Island on Necker Island. He is a research scientist and a sister of the model Carrie Southworth. He now has one child with Lucinda. PC Magazine praised Google as one of the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines in 1998. Then Google was awarded the Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned the Webby Award, a People’s Voice Award for technical achievement.

 

Sergey Brin:

Sergey was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Soviet Union. He immigrated from the Soviet Union to the Unite States when he was six years old.  He graduated from the University of Maryland. At Maryland, he studied Mathematics and Computer Science. His father and grandfather were also graduates of the University of Maryland. His mother is a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. After Graduation, he went to grad school at Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He now resides in Los Alto, California near Larry. He is the Co-founder of Google Inc., a Computer Scientist and Internet Entrepreneur.

The Economist Magazine referred to him as the “Enlightenment Man”. In May 2007, Brin married Anne Wojcicki in The Bahamas. She was a Biotech Analyst and graduated Yale University with a Bachelors of Science in Biology. Sergery’s mother, Eugenia, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and in 2008, he decided to make a donation to the University of Maryland School of Medicine where is mother is being treated. Him and his wife are working with other employees of University of Maryland to gain knowledge and help discover positive facts of this disease. Him and his wife created the Brin Wojcicki Foundation which was awarded $500,000 dollars to Wikimedia FOundation as it started its eighth annual fundraising campaign.

http://www.ted.com/speakers/sergey_brin_and_larry_page.html

 

Exercise 3

Compare Tables to Grids:

Benefits of HTML Table:

Tables are easier to implement compared to CSS layout grids. Tables increase almost unnecessarily the text ratio. It is very easy to find understandable tutorials on how to use tables on the web. Meaning that other option could be used to create layouts that produce small page files with less HTML tags. Tables are used in over 95% of cases for websites today. HTML tables are easier to understand for the beginner and have a more organized code. Tables also have browser compatibility. Tables in HTML are intended to be used in much the same way that you would use a table in a Microsoft to layout text or graphics in an organised tabular format in your HTML document. It is also to separate content from layout which makes it easier than using divx in CSS. The readability of the code is easier to understand HTML and is better for SEO not to use tables. Tables on the web create newspaper pages using HTML columns.

Benefits of CSS Grid:

If you are planning to create a complex web design such as a magazine or a story/novel then it is better to use CSS. CSS grid frameworks are very popular and sufficient when doing something more complicated and detailed. It helps it be more accessible and well structured therefore it is easier to maintain. CSS Grid systems provide uniformity and consistency in placement of HTML elements. It gives a good visual explanation between page elements. It also makes it easier to apply text callouts and images.  It is a faster loading page with lowered hosting costs and the redesigns are less expensive. It has a competitive edge and easier for teams to maintain. Also, there are no spacer gifs and has a quick website-wide updates. Search engines read CSS better than HTML and tables use more codes. To top it off, for HTML, Google attaches extra weight to keywords contained in tags like H1s and H2s. Therefore, the future of the web is CSS.

Designer 3

Steve Jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

Born February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011 in San Francisco, California. He was an American Businessman and Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Technology. Co-founder and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He was also Co-founder and CEO of NeXT Inc. He was a board member of The Walt Disney Company. He married Lauren Powell in 1991 and was the father of 4 children named Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Reed, Erin and Eve.

He attended Monta Loma Elementary School, Mt. View, Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. He was hired to work at Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. After High School in 1972, he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon then dropped out after one semester. He then took a job as a technician at Atari, Inc. He then traveled to India for several months then became a serious practitioner of Zen Buddhism.

In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucas-film Ltd, which was spin off as Pixar Animation Studios. He was one of the first to see potential of Xerox PARC’s mouse-driven graphical user interface which lead to him creating Apple Lisa. He worked with Ken Rothmuller and John Couch on Apple Lisa. He oversaw the development of iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad along with the Apple Retail Stores. His occupation was listed as “entrepreneur” in the “high tech” business.

In August 2011, Steve had no choice but to resign from CEO but continued to work as Chairman of the Board until his death in October 2011 from Pancreatic Cancer. His intelligent mind and wide range of thoughts have made an impact on the Earth and will forever change lives. He will be missed.

http://amix.dk/blog/post/19638

Exercise 2

Difference Between CSS and HTML:

Wikipedia.org Definitions:

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML,SVG and XUL.

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the main markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>, although some tags, known as empty elements, are unpaired, for example <img>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag (they are also called opening tags and closing tags). In between these tags web designers can add text, tags, comments and other types of text-based content.

In my opinion:

-HTML is a more simple way to code with a few key words dedicated to formatting certain ways. CSS was developed to make a bigger page more simplified. You can use CSS in HTML pages, but it is not made for HTML it can also be used on XHTML and XML. In CSS, you are not limited to a single tag, you can create a few to size to the pages the way desired. HTMl is used to put everything in a webpage organized, then CSS is linked. There are more layout possibilities with CSS.

Designer 2

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. Father named Edward and mother named Karen. He has three sisters Randi, Donna and Arielle we all brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He describes himself as a Atheist. He attended Ardsley High School then transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy his junior year. He won prized in classical studies and science. He can read and write Hebrew, French, Latin and Ancient Greek.

He enrolled at Harvard University in September 2002. Mark studied computer science and psychology. He was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. At HArvard, he wrote a program called Course Match which allowed students to to make decisions based on the choices of other students past and help them form study sessions with other fellow students in their classes.

Mark launched Facebook in his dorm room in February 2004. He started it as a “Harvard Thing”, then it spread to surrounding colleges and other Ivy League Colleges. Years after, it is now spread to high school students and graduates of colleges for people to reconnect to their past relationships. Mark and his Facebook co-founders Andrew McCollum, Adam D’Angelo and Sean Parker launched a competing peer to peer file sharing software called “Wirehog”, a precursor to the Facebook platform in August 2004.

There was a movie made after his story and creation titled ” The Social Network” where Jesse Eisenberg plays Zuckerberg. Mark and his Facebook Team are now making updates and changing Facebook for a better future, incorporating a new idea such as “The Timeline”.

http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/business/mark-zuckerberg/

Exercise 1

WHAT MAKES A GOOD WEBSITE?

1. Keep it simple.

http://www.google.com

2. Clear hierarchy.

http://www.twitter.com

3. Good navigation.

http://www.youtube.com

4. Keep links current.

http://www.yahoo.com

5. Put contact information on your pages.

http://www.wikipedia.com

6. Be as global as you can.

http://www.flickr.com

7. Pick the right colors.

http://www.myspace.com

8. Make it memorable.

http://www.godaddy.com

9. Organized and neat.

http://www.craigslist.com

10. Clear target audience.

http://www.facecbook.com