http://www.dan-wong.com Notes on Web Design Sat, 28 Aug 2010 17:14:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In order to streamline some of the sign up processes for CityTech students, Kionic has created a special portal page just for us: http://kionic.com/cuny By signing up via this page, Kionic will know that you are a CityTech student.  They will set things up so that there will be minimal difficulties that ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv4850/advanced-web-strategies-projects/kionic-portal-for-cuny-students Sign up here to receive automatic emails for ADV4850 Advanced Web Strategies for Designers. Enter your email address: http://www.dan-wong.com/adv4850/welcome-to-adv4850-fall-2010 // SEOmoz - SEO Software How to get your brand out there? Check out this video. http://www.dan-wong.com/uncategorized/online-branding-strategy-101 Most Promising New Web Designer Spring 2010 Keiko Nakayama: http://whatkindofme.com/index.html Best Web Site Spring 2010 Magdalena Kacicka: http://www.designcatalyst.net/ http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/winners-of-the-spring-2010-kionic-web-design-awards Most Promising New Web Designer Spring 2010 Shortlist http://pickyeye.com/index.html http://www.travisjbonilla.com/index.html http://whatkindofme.com/index.html http://www.jancantor.com/index.html http://www.sylcmyk.com/ http://siuhim.com/index.html http://anastasiyakladova.com/index.html Best Web Site Spring 2010 Shortlist http://www.bark101.com/index.html http://www.cocokanji.com/index.html http://www.designcatalyst.net/ http://www.solidarygames.com/index.html http://www.enlicious.com/index.html http://www.chocoliving.net/ http://www.elevenforthecup.com/index.html http://www.margaretparadise.com/index.html http://www.dan-wong.com/uncategorized/shortlist-for-spring-2010-kionic-web-design-awards Not being from New York originally, I've never been able to determine the difference between each borough's accent. Given that most of my students are true New Yorkers, I pose the question "What Borough Are You From?", after watching the hilarious video below: Comment, and don't forget to include a link to ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/the-new-york-accent-is-this-true Following the 45 minute quiz, students will be spending the rest of the class working on completing their major project. Please come to class prepared to work on your website. I will be meeting with you individually to check progress and answer questions. http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/studio-class-following-quiz This is a reminder to all students in ADV3650 this Spring 2010 semester that your final website projects must be built completely and populated with content by Monday, May 3, 2010. This means you have 3 weeks to complete the project. This will coincide with the Grace Gallery Student Show, ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/major-project-completion-due-monday-may-3 Miki Masuda and Solomon Doley, the winners of the Kionic Fall 2009 Web Design Awards were showcased this past week on CityTech's Picture This section of the website. Check it out. http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/aboutus/newsevents/picturethis/2010sp/kionic_awards/index.shtml http://www.dan-wong.com/uncategorized/kionic-award-winners-pictured-on-citytech-website Whitney Pillsbury, creative director at Kaplan Thaler Group, will be giving a lecture for the Meet the Pros series at CityTech next week.  This promising to be a very entertaining, and insightful presentation, for those students want to hear about how an award winning ad agency works behind the scenes. Mr. ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/meet-the-pros-whitney-pillsbury For homework this week, students must send me links to live pages. There should be 3 links in total. A 2-column layout that we did in class A 3-column layout that we started in class A rough layout (colored blocks) of your design for your final project Make sure that you submit the entire ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/layout-homework-assignment Good design takes work, and it takes time. When the effort has not been put into the work, it shows. Even the best designers in the world put effort into their work. It doesn't get easier, the quality gets better, and the designs become more interesting. Here are some of the ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/branding-and-design-assignment As promised, here is my first blog post of the semester.  The purpose of this blogpost is to ensure that all the students have signed up for the Feedburner email updates, and they are receiving them. So for extra credit, here is an assignment. As you may have already heard, there ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/html-5-apples-ipad-and-iphone-platform-no-flash-included Students are required to sign up for email updates. Be sure to use an email account that you check regularly. Monday Evening Students (Section 2281) enter your email address: Tuesday Morning Students (Section 7190) enter your email address: http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/mon-eve/sign-up-for-email-alerts Congratulations to all those students who were shortlisted for last semester's awards competition. The students sites that were considered for the Kionic Award for Most Promising New Web Designer Fall 2009 are as follows: http://www.solomondoley.com/ http://www.jchnyc.com/index.html http://www.acoolportfolio.com/index.html http://www.intansdesign.com/index.html http://www.ericajsoto.com/index.html http://www.cmcastellanos.com/index.html http://www.peng-xu.com/ The student sites that were considered for the Kionic Best Web Site Fall 2009 are as follows: http://www.roadtripusa2009.net/ http://www.behappybella.com/ http://www.antitourismnyc.com/index.html http://jcfoto.net/index.html http://www.marthasdancecenter.com/ http://www.lovenaturalbeauty.com/index.php The Kionic ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/fall-2009-kionic-web-design-awards The homework for this week will be, in addition to studying for the quiz, completing the build of your main website project. Please email me a link to your site's temporary homepage by next class. http://www.dan-wong.com/uncategorized/homework-for-this-week Follow this link to download the questions for next week's quiz.  8 questions will be selected, with one question requiring you to code by hand with no help with computers or cheat sheets. http://www.dan-wong.com/resources/AD3650QuizFall2009.rtf http://www.dan-wong.com/uncategorized/quiz-questions-be-prepared-to-code-by-hand Please arrive to class on time. The Communications Department may be visiting our class, and it is important that students show up on time and are not wandering in late during the lecture. http://www.dan-wong.com/uncategorized/videotaping-class-for-citytech-open-house This a reminder to students of Monday's Advanced Web class.  The school is closed on Monday. The class is rescheduled and will take place on Wednesday, October 14. Same time, same place. http://www.dan-wong.com/uncategorized/school-closed-monday-wed-oct-14-follows-monday-schedule I mentioned this in my Monday class, but not to the Tuesday class, so here is the announcement officially... Students have a choice to execute affiliate programs or banner ads on their project website.  Both are not required, just one. Extra marks will be given to those who choose to do ... http://www.dan-wong.com/adv3650/advanced-web-projects/affiliate-programs-or-banner-ads