Well, I just found http://www.collageart.org/links/ with a ton of artists and a great variety of web sites. Sally Jean is great, the style remains constant throughout the site with her own personal flavor. Clifford Alejandro is very clean, perhaps too many pages with dots to get somewhere. Lots to see.

Class Cancelled and Other Info

Hey all—

We will not be meeting tonight for class; I would suggest getting as far as you can with the bare-bones laying out and positioning of your home pages. On Monday, we will be moving on to buttons, images, and linking, so BE prepared to start adding these elements.
This afternoon I will be adding a readings menu to the right-hand side of the blog, make sure you do the required reading by Monday.
Also, for homework, by Monday, BEFORE class, upload a j-peg image of your Photoshop mock-up to the blog. I realize some of you have used layers to simulate navigating between pages; in this case, choose one image that gives us a good idea of your site layout. Also include a written description of your planned website. Email me if you have problems or questions.

bethanybond@hotmail.com

See you Monday; have a great snowy weekend!
bb

Web design tips

http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/webdesign_tips.asp

Some tips

mindblowing digital art

I stumbled on this site a while back, and that style just struck me as quite amazing. Its pretty neat to be able to find someone with this sense of abilty and percetion to create something like this.

http://www.neosurrealismart.com/

Aya Kato

One of my favorite digital artists, Aya Kato is a Japanese commercial illustrator working with the Adobe Suite. 

To criticize her page a bit, it requires using slider bars to view the entire page, a design factor that takes away from the grandeur of her work. 

I love her work though, it's like  a mixture of Egon Schiele, and Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, check her work out at paintalicious.org, a cool art community page. 

http://paintalicious.org/

Enjoy

Beautiful/Decay

Beautiful/Decay is an art publication that follows contemporary art movements, specifically postmodern art and design. The B/D blog is a great jumping-off point for surveying new new art and art movements so check it out. 

http://beautifuldecay.com/

Check out the "Tale of How" short animated film, it's too much!

web_design_how-to

I stumbled upon this helpful resource while trying to figure out how to approach designing my web page http://webstyleguide.com/page/index.html. There is a ton of info on this site for doing web page layout. Check it out!

Absolute Positioning Inside Relative Positioning!

This article from CSS tricks makes it easy to understand how absolute positioning inside relative positioning works.

http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/

CSS Positioning

Check out this website; pretty easy to understand with great examples. Read by Wednesday and check back whenever you need some review...

http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/

www.noriomatsumoto.com

www.noriomatsumoto.com

I like nature photography and this site was easy to navigate. I thought it was cool being given the option to look at it full screen or standard. I enjoyed the general setup. It's a simple slideshow and I liked the darker background.

You say (pə-tā'tō).....I'll say [pUH-tey-tuh]

These sites are interesting...
Eric Chan uses has harnessed some fun interactions with his viewers (especially if you own a MacBook), and despite all of this site's complexities it is still straight-forward and easy to use.
http://www.ericchandesign.com/

However, I think the Lucuma site is more aesthetically interesting and has a better user-friendly layout. Don't be daunted by the language English speakers!! This is some basic stuff...
http://lucuma.com.ar/

p.s. I found the second site here:
http://dzineblog.com/2008/09/getting-creative-with-javascript.html

Greenfield

I chose this site because Lois Green field is one of my favorite photographers. My favorite photography that she does is known as airborne. I love that her subjects can defy gravity. I also found her website easy to navigate around. One aspect of her site that I liked was that after choosing one of her types of styles off the home site, the list dropped to the left of the screen so it was easily accessible. http://www.loisgreenfield.com/index.html

Newgrounds

A website that came to mind when thinking about good design is http://www.newgrounds.com/. I have frequented that site occasionally over the years, and have always found it relatively easy to navigate. Also, considering all of the content contained on the site, items on the pages load at a pretty quick pace. It's a pretty nicely designed website.

andywrightphoto.com

Always have enjoyed this site of professional snowboard photographer Andy Wright. Clean layout and slideshow style presentation of his awesome photos. check 'er out.. www.andywrightphoto.com

BLU

I really like this website's appearance and navigation layout. I like how he basically scanned his sketchbook and made buttons within each drawing. The tabs on the left side of the book allow you to navigate to different areas of the website. Check out Blu's video titled Muto.

http://www.blublu.org/

Art gallery / Online store - Artbark

Hey art nerds,
Check out how every time you visit the home page it displays different pieces.
www.artbarkgallery.com

clean photo looks

Check out http://www.parkeharrison.com and http://www.connieimboden.com for clean photo looks. Arrows of first might be placed differently, but I like the larger image. Imboden has interesting thumbnail page roll overs.

Japanese Paper Artists

Saw the work of two Japanese paper artists recently. Kako Ueda does incredibly ornate and complicated and delicate works out of cut paper, and has a equally elaborate website--
http://www.kakoueda.com/

And Yuken Teruya, who makes beautiful trees cut out of fastfood bags and toilet paper rolls--
http://www.yukenteruyastudio.com/ Be sure to check out her works "Notice-Forest" and "Corner Forest".

Class Reading: CSS Class vs. ID

We will discuss this further, Monday, January 26. Be prepared.


This is a really simple explanation of the difference between the CSS "ID" and "CLASS" selectors.

http://ulyssesonline.com/2007/10/12/css-class-vs-id/

ID selectors are unique. They occur only once in a page layout. A good use for an ID selector are headers, footers, menus, sidebars, etc.
CLASS selectors on the other hand, occur multiple times in a page such as divs for posts, articles, etc...


Why Did They Choose These Names??
ID = A person's Identification (ID) is unique to one person.
Class = There are many people in a class.

Web Safe Fonts

This will be very useful:
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

This website has a good layout/composition and is enjoyably interactive: http://mayaportal.lucita.net/ I like the Hunab Ku symbol in the center of the calendric dials.