This holiday picture solves the mystery of where cursors come... on Twitpic

This holiday picture solves the mystery of where cursors come... on Twitpic

http://www.iceskate.com/

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

Sesame Street: Cookie Monster Auditions for Saturday Night Live

Browse Inside Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Check out the new cover designs for Harper Collins classic books.  Intended to entice younger readers.

Browse Inside Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Secrets of Structuring Your Web Site

Illustration © Web Style Guide 3rd Edition

Copyright 2008–2009 Lynch and Horton

How to Draw Mario by creator Shigeru Miyamoto

Many too small boxes and Maru

Typography and Couture

This one's for Joshua...

Helvetica, Caslon, Baskerville, Courier, and Cooper Black are five famous typefaces that have now inspired a collection of T shirts.

960 Grid - Take Another Look

http://960.gs/demo.html

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language

Make your pages look fancy

Free Web Page Headers

You are free:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:
Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

Universal Wish List from Amazon

What is Universal Wish List?
Universal Wish List allows you to add products from any website to your Amazon Wish List with one simple click, making it easier than ever to keep track of all the gifts you wish for, all in one place.

Getting Started
It's easy! Simply add the Universal Wish List button to your browser, and start shopping. When you see something you'd like on any website, just click the Add to Universal Wish List button, and the item will appear on your Amazon Wish List.

Joshua asked me last week how to make a background image on a web page not repeat. By default, an image you set as a background image will default.

Short Answer
There is no standards-based way of doing this in HTML. Some people create a large background (say, 1600x1200 pixels) and place the desired image in the appropriate place. Keep in mind that this "technique" has some serious drawbacks.

Long Answer
There is no way, using standard HTML, of doing it. That is, this ability is not defined in any of the HTML specs. In fact, the HTML 3.2 Reference Specification for the BODY tag defines the BODY tag's BACKGROUND attribute as specifying a URL for an image that will be used to tile the document background (emphasis added).

What some do to get around this problem is to create a huge background image (1600x1200 perhaps) that has the image they want seen in the top left corner (or around there) and the rest is some neutral color that complements the image. Keep in mind, though, that doing this has some serious drawbacks, not the least of which is the increase in download time. Other problems include additional overhead (memory), rendering time, and the hard drive space required to store the large image in cache.

Solution
It is possible to do this using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1). If we have time near the end of the semester we will review some basic CSS.

Transcontinental Robot-Assisted Remote Telesurgery

Thanks Sean for finding this link!

Remote robot surgery between France and the U.S. DOES exist!

Ummmmmm...This is seems weird to me

baby head candle holders?

What the future looked like in 1967

Thank You Katelyn for finding this!

Meet The 2010 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners

The famed MacArthur Fellows Program, which awards "Genius" grants to exceptional inventors, innovators and other creative types, has announced 23 new fellows for 2010.

Most Amazing Web App Ever?

What do you get when you take words and doodle with them? The answer is a word cloud. At wordle.net you can create your own word clouds. Try it out with you next term paper or with your last month's worth of FB posts!

And the winner is...

You voted and your choice for the easiest to use website is...

WENDYS

I'd love to hear from those of you who voted for Wendy's over Chick-fil-A and Subway. Why Wendy's?

Oh the horror!

Oxford English Dictionary 'will not be printed again'

The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s most definitive work on the language, will never be printed because of the impact of the internet on book sales.

Pardon me while I shed a tear...

Money, money, money

Amazing New Designs For The Dollar Bill (PHOTOS)

The American dollar is in bad need of a makeover. Thanks to the Dollar ReDe$ign Project, we may now have some options.

Organized by creative strategy consultant Richard Smith, the Dollar ReDe$ign Project is soliciting ideas for the dollar bill of the future. "Our great 'rival', the Euro, looks so spanky in comparison it seems the only clear way to revive this global recession is to rebrand and redesign," the project notes on its website.

What is HTML?

What is HTML?

HTML is a language for describing web pages.

• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
• A markup language is a set of markup tags
• HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

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HTML Tags

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags

• HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
• HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
• The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
• Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

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HTML Documents = Web Pages

• HTML documents describe web pages
• HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
• HTML documents are also called web pages

The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page:

<html> <body> <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p>My first paragraph.</p> </body> </html>

Example Explained

• The text between <html> and </html> describes the web page
• The text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content
• The text between <h1> and </h1> is displayed as a heading
• The text between <p> and </p> is displayed as a paragraph

Typographic pizzazz:
Coming to a Web near you

 

What could be finer?

 

Your favorite font could soon be coming to the Web. That's because of a new technology called Web Open Font Format, or WOFF, that has attracted support from all the right players: browser makers, standards groups, typography designers, and online services to ease licensing. 


Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20013802-264.html#ixzz0zebJSFed

 

Class 2 Over and Done

What did we learn?

transportation
audio communications
visual communications