Month: July 2012

Thoughts
July 25, 2012
Asking the Right Questions
In the fall I’m picking up another course at the University of Scranton, as well as 2 web-based courses I’m currently developing content for. Since my current website is better suited for the single course I’ve been teaching for the past few years, it’s time for a redesign. It has been a few years since I’ve been a student myself and frankly, most professors’ websites are not great, so I’ve decided to ask current and former students how they use their professors’ websites. It’s all about asking the right questions.
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Links
July 5, 2012
Articles from Pocket July 5th, 2012
Here are some of my favorite articles from my Pocket account. I’ll probably do thisÂ sporadicallyÂ based on how much I’m reading/how interesting the Internet is being.
- Responsive Navigation Patterns – Brad Frost (@brad_frost)
- COPE: Create Once, Publish Everywhere – Daniel Jacobson
- So You Want to Accept Credit Cards Online? – Bryan Jones/Nettuts+
- 7 Principles of Effective Icon Design – Sean Hodge/PSDTuts+
- Is your book idea good? (Yes, I promise) – Scott Berkun (@berkun)
- Your E-Book is Reading You – Alexandra Alter/WSJ
- Multi-Device Layout Patterns – Luke Wroblewski (@lukew)
Computer Stuff
July 3, 2012
Mobile Browser Testing
So this Responsive Web thing is all the rage these days, and rightfully so. As mobile browsers get more powerful, we can do a lot of great things that used to be thought of as only possible on Â the desktop. We no longer need to have redirects on mobile that take our users to a separate site; we can have it all, no matter what device they are viewing our sites from. I recently updated both my site and my blog to be responsive (I’m still working some kinks out of the blog- I’m sorry for the mess). However, as mobile browsers are becoming powerful and plentiful, we run into the same issues we’re seeing on the desktop- we need to test our mobile friendly versions in several different browsers across multiple platforms.
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