Friday January 27, 2012
A reader calling himself “areyoukiddingme” writes about color symbolism:
Why are you making such a big deal out of what color your page uses? You should be more focused on the content on your website, the drop down menus, the organization, homepage outline, etc. Color is the last thing you should worry about. Personally, though, I would go with black letters and a white background. The only color that should be different is your logo. By the way, links should always be blue.
Do you agree? While I agree with him that text should be black on white (or very dark on very light) for good contrast and readability. But it seems extreme to say that ’[the] only color that should be different is your logo.” And I think that even if you agree completely with him, color symbolism is important. For example, if your logo incorporates a hat of some type, and it's colored green, you may be sending the completely wrong message to Chinese customers. In China, green hats are used as a term for a cuckold. Just because of the color, you have made your site logo at best funny to potential Chinese customers.
I'd love to hear what you think. Please post in the comments or give your opinion about the importance of color symbolism on web pages.
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Thursday January 26, 2012
With the release of iTunes U and other ways to get more access to elearning, it seems to me like this is an area that is growing both in importance and popularity on the web. But elearning is more than just posting web content online and letting people learn from it. Good online education includes assessment, exercises, and interaction to help the students really learn what is being taught. Of course, this all used to be done with packages like Authorware, but these days, you can build great elearning solutions right in Dreamweaver. What do you think? Is elearning an important part of the web or is it out of date?
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Wednesday January 25, 2012
This is a fun example of a site that is essentially one page—although you still click through to inner pages. Ronald uses great interactive CSS3 features to make the page more interactive. I’d love to see him use the History API to get the URL to change, so it’s easier to navigate. And there are some issues with formatting in my browser. But overall it's a great example.
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Tuesday January 24, 2012
When I first started learning CSS3 the transformations and transitions were hard to get. Mostly because the words were similar. I would find myself typing transform when I meant transition and transition when I meant translate, and so on. But learning what they all meant has helped me get them straight in my head. Learn the difference between CSS transformations, transitions, and even translations.
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