Thursday, February 18, 2010

Prezi - A departure from Powerpoint

One of my favorite podcast's is the Teacher's Podcast. I was listening to it recently and heard the hosts talk about Prezi. It's a new way to present information in visual manner that takes Powerpoint to the next level. Just take a look.



http://prezi.com/obqzirjhtf-q/web-20-in-the-classroom/

The presentation that I've chosen is awesome as well. Inspiring actually.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Lorem Ipsum


Whenever I am creating a site, I like to see how text is going to flow around graphics, within div tags, etc. The one problem I run into with this is that I usually don't have all of the content text available when I am designing.


Instead of just typing Content, Content, Content over and over again, I use this tool to generate some text or lists to see how it will look on my page.


Give "Lorem Ipsum" a try the next time you need some dummy text for something.
Christopher

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Color Scheme Designer


Here is a great tool that I use to pick colors out for my site. If you want to know what colors, and shades work well together, give this site a try:

Color Scheme Designer

It enables you to see how it will work in light and dark layouts as well as change the color scheme that fits your site best

There is also the ability to get an entire hex code list of the color scheme that you put together.

This is a great asset for any web designer/developer.