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.