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  • Scott McCloud

    A great TED video featuring Scott McCloud.

  • Adobe overview of HTML5 vs Flash

    Following is a good Adobe overview of current web and mobile technologies that the typical web designer needs to be aware of.

  • Firefox and the status bar

    In the course text we use for our beginning HTML text, the author has you write some text to the status bar to demonstrate how to work with Event Handlers. As you have probably noticed by the now, the status bar code does not seem to work with Firefox. The reason is that the option…

  • In the same room

    For new HTML students, understanding how to work with folders can be a challenge. A student of mine with minimal computer experience came to me having a hard time understanding how to reference a file in the same directory with a href attribute. I could tell she did not have a strong grasp of working…

  • RSA Animation

    From the RSA Animate Channel on YouTube. “This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.” Outstanding lecture and supporting animation by the UK group Cognitive Media. Enjoy. Discuss.

  • The comic mouth

    A great post by  Ron Harris on the history of drawing the comic masculine mouth. As a cartoonist, this is one of the trickiest parts of the anatomy to get right. Great article. http://smurfswacker.blogspot.com/2009/11/technique-talk.html