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Adobe Portfolio

Adobe recently released an interesting tool – Portfolio. If you have a Creative Cloud account and a Behance portfolio, you can easily use this tool to create a portfolio of your work. For those who are interested in quickly promoting examples of their work (with customization options), this is a […]

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Issues > Concerns > Problems

I have been debating whether to post this “rant” or not. Obviously, you know what I finally decided. Those who pay attention to detail should note that I first drafted this post in early 2011. Yes, 2011 – as in 4 years ago. It is now 2015 and I have […]

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Things which make me go hmm…

Ok, this may be a bit of a rant, but I have experienced a number of situations in the past few months which really make me wonder. Some time ago (2011), I posted a set of notes on how to email your professor. [Note: although that rant was over 2 […]

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A challenge to students

We are now in the second week of the semester. I have a challenge for students in my CMWEB classes. I put together a brief slideshow (using PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate) to include audio and transitions. This information came mostly from a Time Magazine article I read over the weekend […]

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WOW Web Design Contest – Illinois, 2011

I just completed supervising the 11th annual WOW web design contest for the state of Illinois. I have done this every year (with the exception of 2008 when I was giving a pre-conference seminar at the 17th International WWW Conference in Beijing). There are separate competitions for secondary and post-secondary […]

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Hello World PaperVision Example

I took a little time this afternoon to modify an example of some materials provided by lynda.com in a PaperVision course. PaperVision is a class of Actionscript libraries which allow you to do some fairly magical things. Given that I have a limited amount of time (and really should be […]

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Snowpocalypse

In honor of our major snow event starting today, I put together a little bit of Flash Actionscript code to generate even more snowflakes. It just populates  a small array with one snowflake symbol which is re-sized  and rotated and placed. I will be showing students in my CMWEB 225 […]

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WOW Web Design Contest

These are some of the photos taken at the WOW Web Design Contest held in Kansas City, MO June 23 – 25, 2009. We had 46 teams competing for over $190,000 in prizes. Prizes were awarded on Friday, June 26. www.flickr.com

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Congratulations

Congratulation to Kathleen Quinlan and Matt Scachette on winning second place in the national SkillsUSA web design contest. The contest was held on June 25, 2009. Great work!

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Congratulations

Congratulations to Luan Railsback and Sheri Humphrey. They won First Place at the SkillsUSA national web design contest in Kansas City this week. Well done! There should be some additional information about the contest posted on the WOW weblog (WOW Technology Minute) in the next week or two. Contestants at […]

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