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Jan

10

2011

HTML5 and CSS 3 Cheat Sheets

Posted by hattersworkshop | Comments : (4)     

Category : Around The Office, Reccomended Tutorials, Teaching

You won’t be been playing with HTML5 and CSS3 for too long before you start looking for cheat sheets. Below are the best I have found to date. Thank you very much, Smashing Magazine and Chris Hanscom! We appreciate your efforts. Below the cheat sheets is a GREAT tutorial from Tutsplus on some of the newst best practices when using HTML 5 in a world that still uses IE 6.

CSS3 Cheat Sheet:
Preview:CSS 3 Preview
Pdf File:CSS 3 Cheat Sheet

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet:
Preview:HTML5 Preview
Pdf File:HTML 5 Cheat Sheet

Background on how to use HTML 5
How to use HTML5 and CSS3 together: Techniques you’ll soon be using

Dec

21

2010

Needed: Companies Looking For Design Interns

Posted by hattersworkshop | Comments : (0)     

Category : Around The Office, Teaching

Tunxis Community College is currently looking for internship positions at local/regional firms doing work in web and/or graphic design, marketing, e-business, and related fields. All interns are handpicked to ensure they excel in their placement at your firm. If you have special requirements please feel free to discuss these with me so we can make the best recommendation. Contunue Reading

Nov

17

2010

Use Light and Shadow to Add EyeCandy to a Design

Posted by hattersworkshop | Comments : (0)     

Category : Great Tutorials, Teaching

This is a great article from Smashing Magazine about bringing life to what could be an otherwise boring page. I referenced this site in my TCC lecture on November 17th. With a few simple manipulations you can add plenty of eye candy to just about anything: buttons, backgrounds, headers, logos… so I guess thats anything really.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/20/5-simple-tricks-to-bring-light-and-shadow-into-your-designs/

Nov

19

2009

Teaching Intro to Flash at Tunxis Again

Posted by hattersworkshop | Comments : (0)     

Category : Teaching

Looks like I’ll be teaching at Tunxis again this semester. Can’t wait to get started again as I have a lot of fun the last time we did this. The class is going to be restructured slightly to showcase the strengths of flash without showing too much to overwhelm students. Last year I think I may have gone a bit too advanced and gone beyond the comfort level of some students. Furthermore, with the impending ‘death of flash ‘quickly approaching I don’t think it makes too much sense to spend a ton of time on it .

More on the death of flash in the next post. This is not to say that it’s dead yet but its being used less and less by good designers and developers for good reason.

May

04

2009

Last Week of Classes – Message to Students

Posted by hattersworkshop | Comments : (0)     

Category : Around West Hartford, Social, Teaching

To all my students: Thank you for all your hard work this semester. I hope you got as much out of the classes as you could. If you have any questions in the future – please dont hesitate to ask me. Just because you’re no longer in my class does not mean my door is closed.

Reflections:
Im only going to teach one class a semester from now on. I wanted to able to go in deeper with both classes and I think I could have if I was clearer about the class objectives and what I was expecting. This was my mistake. A demo reel of examples I had found to go with each assignment would have been instrumental in achieving this.

I’m glad I did it though, I learned Flash CS 4 in 5 days and met some new people who I hope to be working with int he future. Actionscript 3 is still greek, but I’ll have to learn it evenutally to begin working with
AIR.

The easy road isn’t rewarding… It’s easy.

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