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[Results] Are Classes in Your Toolbox?
Towards the end of 2009, we started a new survey of higher ed web professionals to take a look at one potential way that you are using the resources around you. The question centered on a fairly simple, central concept: odds are that on your campus you have classes teaching the creation of different kinds [...]
Continue reading...[Guru Survey] Are Classes In Your Toolbox?
Good budgeting includes doing effective resource management. The web has to produce a lot of different media, and so making the most of our resources is extremely important. This is becoming increasingly important as we’re asked to do more with less. The neat thing about higher ed though is that we have access to a [...]
Continue reading...Software Review: Flimp - Flash Development Tool without the Programming Knowledge
So I was given the freedom to demo and review a powerful Flash development tool called Flimp. If you visit Flimp’s website they describe their product as video marketing, but after playing with the software for a few weekends and talking to others this is only a part of what their service is capable of. [...]
Continue reading...Save your sanity and use a grid
University web designers have a tough enough job as it is, juggling users needs while pleasing committees and numerous other stakeholders. Doesn’t matter if your web office has complete control or just influence, using a grid can make completely unrelated sites look uniform.
Continue reading...Designing a Custom Flip Cam
How is this for great - one of the first things I got to do after being officially hired by Fire Engine RED was design and buy a Flip MinoHD to use at NACAC. After conferring with Keith, a fellow new FER employee and a compatriot from an old job, I opted for one of [...]
Continue reading...Image Library: Moving from Extensis Portfolio to Google’s Picasa
We’ve been using Extensis Portfolio Server and clients for five years between two departments, Public Affairs and Design & Printing Services, to attempt to organize our digital image library of nearly 50,000 images. We’re also starting to store videos on this same server. We have a mixed environment of PC and Mac platforms. The PCs [...]
Continue reading...College Ads on the Boston Subway
So I was riding on the subway the other day and just so happened to have my Nikon D90 with me and was noticing all the ads for colleges. For those of you that didn’t know, Boston is the quintessential college town. Everyone knows about Harvard, MIT and Boston College but their are A LOT [...]
Continue reading...Talkback: Successful Higher Ed Branding for the Web
Hopefully, when I mention the words “branding” and “print” in the same sentence, every web developer out there reading this cringes. So, with that in mind, how many of you have web branding guidelines that grew from print standards? I hope the number is very few, but I suspect that there are a lot of [...]
Continue reading...Inspiring Design for Higher Ed
I ran into an interesting problem the past weekend. While planning a new site, I realized that I was just totally tapped for good ideas for a new site design that would pop and be happy and dynamic. By nature, I am no designer, and I readily admit that. I am, however, good at taking [...]
Continue reading...Taking the idea of a cohesive Web template in a slightly different direction
Earlier this week I wrote about reining in the outliers for a university-wide cohesive Web presence. Todd Sanders (@tsand) from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, had the gall to disagree with me (“for the first time EVER,” I’ll have you note), arguing that the art department shouldn’t look like the business department Web site. [...]
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