Archive for 'Design'
SNDSTL Takeaways: A list of links to keep you busy for awhile
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
I’m going to be honest here, this is going to be a mess of a post. I just came off of a three-day brain buffet at the SND conference in St. Louis and I’m still trying to make sense of everything that I saw and heard. It should give me post material on this site for [...]
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We’ve Posted Our “Guide to Moving Online”
Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
After more than 300 posts to the site, we decided it was time to compile some of them into a guide to help advisers and staffs with their journeys online. So, we created a “Guide to Moving Online.” You will find everything from Planning and Social Media to Comment and Publicity advice. The committee is [...]
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Build your own web design or individualize your WordPress or content management theme
Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by Michelle Harmon.
After taking a weeklong seminar on web development with Dave Stanton and Sara Quinn at the Poynter Institute this summer in St. Petersburg, Fla., my brain was exploding with the amount of organization, detail, and knowledge web designers need. I came home from the seminar both empowered and discouraged—empowered because I am now armed with [...]
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Easily make your WordPress site mobile with WPTouch
Posted on 20. Jun, 2011 by Aaron Manfull.
If you’re looking to make your WordPress site mobile friendly, there is a plugin out there that can help. WPTouch is a plugin you can find through the “Add New” plugin option on the backend of your site. The plugin is configurable to give you some options to change its appearance and you don’t have [...]
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5 digital media sites you should be reading
Posted on 26. Apr, 2011 by Kristy Roschke.
Whether you are just getting your feet wet or you are a seasoned expert, there are plenty of Web resources to enhance your digital media experience. My Google Reader and Twitter feed are overloaded with news sites and blogs on the topic (and there is a nice list of links on this very site), but [...]
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Developing websites in Firefox easier with add-on
Posted on 17. Jan, 2011 by Michelle Balmeo.
A few years ago, after losing a lot of hair trying to develop a website for my local organization, scanning through cascading style sheets that were hundreds of lines long and keeping elaborate documents to track image sizes and colors, I finally stumbled across the Firefox Web Developer add-on. It’s a simple tool that many [...]
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Interior site organization creates easier user experience
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Jim Streisel.
Since they began working on it in 1996, members of the Carmel (IN) High School HiLite Online student news website team have tweaked the site’s design in an attempt to create an easier experience for readers to find information they need and want. But so often those changes tended to be only to the website’s [...]
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How to create an animated favicon for your website
Posted on 14. Dec, 2010 by JEA Digital Media.
We recently didn’t have a favicon for our publications’ website, FHNtoday.com, and had been looking for a way to get all three of our three major icon images into one favicon to display on the top of our website. We found that there was an article on JEADigitalMedia.org about how to make different favicons for [...]
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WordPress Menu: Make a Menu Item in a Drop-down Menu Unclickable
Posted on 10. Dec, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
I had been working on the thinkSJI.org site a few weeks back and was working to create a drop-down menu. I wanted a top level category with submenu items. This is a pretty simple thing to create in WordPress 3.0. The problem I was having though was that when created a top-level menu item (on [...]
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