Monthly Archives: April 2008

How to size text with CSS

This ALA article by Rich Rutter rehashes an old 2002 method devised by Owen Briggs for sizing type consistently across browsers. It’s how I most often size type.

Blog Post 2

Due: 5:00pm, Sunday, Apr 27

Read Feudalism 2.0, and share your thoughts via the tumblelog you created for Blog Post 1. After you’ve written a text post and published it (“Create post” button), email me a link to your writing by 5:00pm on Sunday, April 27.

How to embed Flash

Read the ALA article, Flash Embedding Cage Match for some background, but what developed since that time is SWFObject 2.0. This is the industry standard for embedding Adobe Flash Player content.

Hosting

After reading this ALA article about Ruby on Rails and clicking some links, I wound up at a list of web hosting companies that support Ruby on Rails.

So if you’re looking to choose among some credible web hosts, start there.

Links from our talk with Chris

Most of the stuff we looked at and talked about in class. Comment on this post or email me if you see any I’m missing (or if you just want more).

Final Project, with documentation

Due: Tuesday, May 13

Redesign either SUNY New Paltz’s CAS website or Vassar College’s English Department website and provide a detailed document outlining and justifying the design and development decisions made during the redesign.