COM530W: Online Design

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Email Form Stuff

Posted Wednesday 11/28/2007 6:17 PM

We'll use these things tonight to build secure email handling scripts.

• Email-Specific Regular Expressions
• Email Injection Overview
• PHP Documentation for preg_match()

Project 1 Last-Minute Checklist and Turn-in Guidelines

Posted Friday 10/19/2007 3:47 PM

Be sure to check your project for these last-minute issues: [Read More]

For Tonight's Activity

Posted Wednesday 9/19/2007 3:29 PM

Be sure to download and install the Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic and Web Developer toolbar extensions in Firefox. [Read More]

Additional Readings and References

Posted Wednesday 9/12/2007 11:20 AM

The IIT library subscribes to Books 24x7, which is an amazing and fully searchable (and readable) collection of online books. Here are some of the titles from there that I think may be worth your time, if you need some additional help with XHTML and CSS. [Read More]

Calendar Updates

Posted Wednesday 9/12/2007 11:19 AM

I’ve made quite a few updates to the calendar for the next couple of weeks. Have a look. [Read More]

Things We Find Del.icio.us (See all)

Joy R’s Feed

• Favelets
• different kinds of favelets
• added 11/07/2007 at 6:36PM

• FavIcon from Pics -- favicon.ico for your website
• Awesome lil icons for your URL
• added 11/07/2007 at 5:54PM

• 8 Practical Tips to Cure Your Internet ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) | zen habits
• hmm..
• added 11/04/2007 at 12:49PM

• Pew Internet: Pew Internet ICT Typology
• Awesome study about the technology habits of americans
• added 11/04/2007 at 12:24PM

• Twitter: What are you doing?
• Social networking tool
• added 10/27/2007 at 9:34AM

John P’s Feed

• Web Designer's Inspiration Package: 40+ Dark Designs | Tech Magazine
• Inspirational designs
• added 11/02/2007 at 2:24PM

• Free Web Site Critique
• forum for critiquing websites
• added 10/31/2007 at 9:50AM

• Designing For Every Browser: How To Make Your Site Fully Cross Browser Compatible > Design Vitality
• Articles on cross-browser functionality for CSS.
• added 10/23/2007 at 1:30PM

• CSS Remix
• Similar to the CSS Zen Garden. Lots of CSS designs in a gallery format.
• added 10/18/2007 at 8:52AM

• 60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
• added 10/18/2007 at 8:37AM

Matthew E’s Feed

• Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You [Content]
• Sitepoint article about portable social networks
• added 12/04/2007 at 4:55PM

• SitePoint Blogs " In All Fairness ... Internet Explorer Still Stinks
• SitePoint breaks down why they think that IE7 still stinks for CSS support
• added 11/22/2007 at 6:49PM

• W3C Compliance and SEO | evolt.org
• This article listed the benefits of web standards and SEO and then went through and explained what you need to do to make your website compliant. It seems that a lot of articles take it for granted that SEO and web standards go hand in hand. If that's the
• added 11/07/2007 at 4:36PM

• Aarron Walter | How to Convince Your Employer or Teacher to Adopt Web Standards
• There are quite a few of these "convincing your employer/organization to use web standards" articles. I thought this one was pretty good. He lists structured markup and accessibility, among other things, as good reasons to use web standards. I thought thi
• added 11/07/2007 at 4:28PM

• SEOmoz | Google Search Engine Ranking Factors
• This is a big long list of SEO ranking factors ranked and explained by 37 SEO experts. I'm skeptical of the term "SEO expert', this page looks legit. The list is centered around Google's search algorithm, but after reading through it, I would imagine that
• added 11/07/2007 at 3:39PM

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