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Sustainable Design

0 Comments Published by Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Tec April 6th, 2006 in WebDesign & Usability, Educational Technology, Educational Technology

It’s always great when someone in the field creates a valuable teaching resource. Karl Stolley’s Sustainable Web Design is an excellent introduction to desigining websites with XHTML and CSS. What I especially like about is that it begins early on with an introduction to markup languages. If writing teachers are going to teach XHTML/CSS in writing for the web and multimedia writing classes, I believe we need to also introduce our students to the general concept of markup languages to prepare them for using XML in the future.

Web 2.0: The new buzzword in Internet technology

0 Comments Published by Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Tec September 20th, 2005 in RSS, Kairosnews, Ed-Tech, Collaboration & Social Networks, WebDesign & Usability, Semantic Web

If you haven’t heard of it, you will: Web 2.0. It’s exploding into conversations online at the moment. Is it a useful way of describing the way that the web is turning to a distributed environment where users push/pull/share content in communicative acts rather than just visiting static virtual spaces? Or is it just business hype?

from BusinessWeek It’s A Whole New Web
MacManus and Porter ’s Web 2.0 for Designers
Downes’s What E-Learning 2.0 means To You
apophenia: Why Web2.0 Matters: Preparing for Glocalization

To me, Web 2.0 is Tim Berners Lee’s Semantic Web meets social software.

Open Source Web Design

0 Comments Published by Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Tec August 31st, 2005 in Kairosnews, Ed-Tech, Open Source, WebDesign & Usability

Anyone starting a weblog (or wanting to redesign one) should give Open Source Web Design a look-see. You can browse the designs by date, rating, and number of downloads. Now I’m itching to do a redesign…

Via digg.