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Dreamweaver CC and PhoneGap

August 28, 2013 - Adobe , Web - by Mark - 17 Comments

A few years ago, I did a weblog post on PhoneGap. I participated in a Tech Live event in late July where Paul Trani reviewed many of the new features in Dreamweaver CC (and discussed building mobile apps). Paul inspired me to put together these notes for students who may […]

Badges and Moodle – part 3

August 21, 2013 - ICC , Learning , Technology , Web - by Mark - No Comments

This is the third (and final post) I have planned on badges. I may include a listing of badges oone can earn after the fall semester has concluded (this list will be a work in progress during the semester). I thought it might be helpful to see the actual process […]

Responsive Web Design Book

August 20, 2013 - Technology , Web - by Mark - No Comments

This arrived in the mail today (it is an interactive eBook). Many thanks to Matt Leach for the opportunity to review this book. I appreciate that many of my improvements were included. Thanks again for asking me to be the technical editor.

Badges and Moodle – Part 2

August 14, 2013 - ICC , Learning , Technology , Web - by Mark - No Comments

Perhaps the hardest part of working with badges was actually creating them. I decided to use Adobe Illustrator since it generates vector based images (and I haven’t used it that much in the past). I thought those reading this might like to see the process I went through. If you […]

Badges and Moodle

August 7, 2013 - ICC , Learning , Technology , Web - by Mark - 2 Comments

I spent some time this summer investigating the potential use of badges in my courses for the coming fall, 2013 semester. I realize that some students will embrace this concept and others will not. I thought it appropriate to provide an overview of the process of working with earned badges […]

Dreamweaver and Bootstrap

July 31, 2013 - Adobe , Web - by Mark - 11 Comments

Some time ago, I provided an overview of Twitter Bootstrap. While working on a joint presentation at the Adobe Summer Institute with Sheri German, she reminded me of the Dreamweaver extension for Bootstrap. I thought it might be appropriate to include a quick overview of this extension. It is presently […]

Hashcat and WordPress

July 24, 2013 - Technology , Web - by Mark - No Comments

During this summer (2013), I taught a course on content management systems in various cities across the US. I focused on WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal. In San Francisco, Sam Bowne (@sambowne) participated in the class and focused on security aspects of these applications. He reported that he was able to […]

2013 National Web Design Contest

July 17, 2013 - Technology , Web - by Mark - No Comments

During the last week of June, I helped run the WebProfessionals.org national web design contest (held in Kansas City, Missouri under the auspices of SkillsUSA). Details of the contest (as well as past winners) can be found at WebDesignContest.org. Over 30 teams participated at the high school level (secondary) and […]

HTML5 Geolocation book

June 10, 2013 - Web - by Mark - No Comments

I returned from my recent trip to speak at MPICT So. California on web analytics, business intelligence and big data and found a copy of this book waiting for me. I was asked to review this book prior to publication and am pleased the author incorporated some of my recommended […]

Book review – Instant LESS CSS Preprocessor How-to by Alex Libby

May 16, 2013 - Learning , Web - by Mark - No Comments

I recently received a copy of Instant LESS CSS Pre-processor by Alex Libby from the publisher and thought it appropriate to post a quick review. The book is a short read (81 pages) and comes with a number of code samples.

2013 Illinois Web Design Contest

April 15, 2013 - Technology , Web , WOW - by Mark - No Comments

Now that the 2013 Illinois Web Design Contest is history, I thought it might be appropriate to share some thoughts and observations. First, congratulations to everyone who participated (in either the secondary or post-secondary contest). You took the extra effort to grow and learn. Those who are taking classes in […]

Adobe MUSE Fundamentals

April 5, 2013 - Adobe , Technology , Web - by Mark - 18 Comments

I am giving a webinar on April 9 covering the fundamentals of Adobe MUSE for educators and needed to prepare some slides and demonstration materials. In reviewing my weblog entries, I realized that I have not included a post on this tool. I thought it might be helpful to provide […]

Adobe Brackets Revisited

March 11, 2013 - Adobe , Technology , Web - by Mark - No Comments

Last July, I examined the Adobe Brackets tool (for editing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files). That version was Sprint 10. I am now working with Sprint 20 and think it is about time to review the tool again. A lot has changed. Many thanks to Ray Camden for recently providing […]

Windows 8 apps with HTML, CSS, and JS

March 4, 2013 - Technology , Web , Windows - by Mark - No Comments

I recently spent a little time investigating what it takes to develop a simple app for Windows 8 using only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Obviously, one needs Windows 8 to start and to test the resulting app. One should also have a copy of Visual Studio 2012 (this seems to […]

Edge Reflow – the code

February 25, 2013 - Adobe , Technology , Web - by Mark - No Comments

Last week, I examined the recently released Adobe Edge Reflow tool itself. I thought it might be worthwhile to examine the generated code. For reference purposes, the file I created last week is the one I plan to examine in this current weblog post. As mentioned last week, these generated […]