Web design. From Intute.ac.uk

Posted by Celia Walter | 10 Jul, 2008

Web designer wall
The Web Designer Wall website, by Web Designer Nick La, is a WordPress blog, in which the author discusses design trends and developments. Archives of the blog go back to July 2007. Posts are categorised under three main headings: tutorials covering subjects such as Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, Flash, and Photoshop; trends, including best designs of the year, predominant styles and inspirational websites; and a general category including news, technological developments, events and people. The blog can also be searched by keyword, or browsed by tag. Most recent posts and comments are featured at the base of each page. Users can subscribe to an RSS feed.
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

Vandelay design blog
This Web design blog is part of the website of Vandelay Web Design, an American Web design company. The blog contains postings on subjects such as: Blog design and promotion; Cascading Style Sheets or CSS; Web design; the design process; marketing; Search engine optimisation or SEO; Traffic generation; Social media; Web development; and Tools. There is an archive of postings going back to March 2007. A collection of postings covering other websites of particular interest in terms of design is categorised under Design Inspiration and subdivided into collections including: Beautifully Minimalist Website Designs; Beautifully Colourful Websites; Beautifully Dark Websites; Artistic Websites; Innovative Flash Designs. The website has a search facility, and both email and RSS updates are available.
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/

Design shack
The Design Shack website is a Web design gallery and resource promoting the best use of Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, in design. The website contains a gallery of over 1,000 designs submitted by designers either for basic information and a review for free, or for additional services for a fee. Websites are categorised and searchable by type, colour scheme and layout. The website also contains a collection of tutorials on topics such as: Accessibility; CSS Basics; Fonts and Typography; Forms; HTML Basics; Layout; Navigation; Web Standards and Graphics. Visitors can subscribe to RSS feeds of both news articles and the Web design Gallery.
http://www.designshack.co.uk/

Stylegala
The Stylegala website is designed to be an online resource for Web professionals on the use of Web standards and CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, in producing good Web design. It showcases websites that may inspire designers to combine both aesthetic and functional design. The gallery of websites can be browsed by the date they were reviewed, going back to 2004, by rating, by reviewer, or searched for by keyword, and the top rated and most recent websites are highlighted. Each website is reviewed, and viewers are asked to rate it. The website also contains an online bookshop, a free bullet resource, a CSS reference facility, an online forum, and sets of links to designers, news and information websites and other online resources related to good Web design, CSS and Web standards.
http://www.stylegala.com/

Web creme
WebCreme is a website by Polish Web and game designer Katarzyna Uchnast. The website is a collection of other websites thought to provide design inspiration to Web designers and developers. Designers are invited to submit their websites if they consider them worthy of listing. Newest submissions are featured on the home page, and the website has an archive going back to October 2005. This archive can be browsed by month, or by the colour scheme of the websites. For each entry, a screen shot provides a direct link to the website in question. Updates of the WebCreme website are available by RSS feed.
http://www.webcreme.com/

Webdesign talk
The WebDesign Talk website is an online community for Web designers and developers, and part of the NamePros Community. Free registration is necessary to gain full access to the forums and other facilities on the website. A variety of online forums and discussion groups are hosted here. Under the Design and Development heading sub-forums include: Web Design Discussions and Reviews; Website Development; Programming; Graphic Design and Flash; Web Hosting; Webmaster Tutorials and Search Engine Optimisation. A Making Money heading includes: Pay Per Click Programs; Affiliate Programs; Marketing Techniques and Business Development. Other facilities on the website include free resources and audio broadcasts from Radio NamePros.
http://www.webdesigntalk.net/

Webdigity
The WebDigity website is an online community for Webmasters. The website contains a collection of discussion groups and forums on subjects including: Design and Layout; Web Development; Web Hosting and Website Promotion. The website also contains a Webmaster Directory containing links to Webmaster resources such as online tools, graphics, scripts and applications, and websites on Search Engine Optimisation. A Web Design Gallery showcases designers’ work in the use of Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. A Tutorials database covers a variety of Web programming topics including database management and forms and data. The website can be searched by keyword or browsed by tag. Visitors are invited to register for free to obtain full use of the forums.
http://www.webdigity.com/

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Shvoong : the worldwide abstracts - literature and science

Posted by Celia Walter | 10 Jul, 2008

Shvoong : the worldwide abstracts site
'Shvoong', meaning 'momentum' in Yiddish', is a website which offers abstracts whose aim is to 'summarize all that has been written throughout human history in the areas of literature and scientific research'. While this is unlikely to be achieved, this ambitious project aims to reduce the search time spent by students, researchers and others in locating the material they need. Each abstract may be read in a format chosen by the reader, with a maximum of 300, 600 or 900 hundred words, and in a wide range of languages. The site also reviews and abstracts the contents of the daily world press. The site is a free resource, funded by advertising, which offers a fee based on the number of readers for the writing and translating of new material. Therefore, each reader is asked to rate the abstracts they use, thereby maintaining the quality of the site's material. All abstract writers are 'random surfers' and writing is submitted in all common languages, with the option for immediate translation into 12 major languages. As automatic translations can be of variable quality, human translators, also surfers, will work to provide higher quality translations. The site may be searched under the headings of 'Books', 'Science', 'Humanities', 'WWW' and 'Newspapers', and then by details of the text and the level of abstract required. This is an unusual resource, deliberately featuring text-only to minimise download time, which is easily navigated and offers value to a wide range of researchers. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.shvoong.com/

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The Humanities Handbook, a reference guide to key texts & ideas, Western intellectual tradition

Posted by Celia Walter | 10 Jul, 2008
Humanities handbook, the
The Humanities Handbook is a reference guide to some of the key background texts and ideas that inform the Western intellectual tradition. It was written to meet demand from undergraduate students at Augusta State University for help with understanding references to Greek gods and myths, to provide definitions of important concepts in the humanities, and to give an overview of important literary and philosophical developments. The handbook originated in 1978 and has since expanded and developed to meet changing undergraduate needs. The online text is taken from the seventh edition and dates from 1995. It includes material covering African culture. The first third of the online handbook is mostly concerned with topic in Classics: ancient myth and religion; Greek society, philosophy, and literature; Roman life and culture. There is a selection of texts by medieval writers including: Arab love poetry; Abelard and Heloise; Hildegard von Bingen; Chaucer; and Dante. More modern materials in the handbook include texts by: Milton; Descartes; Locke; Hume; Voltaire; Rousseau; Pope; Wollstonecraft; Goethe; Darwin; and Dostoevsky. There is also a brief guide to modern philosophy and postmodern debate. A short article gives tips on essay writing. A pronunciation guide is provided for undergraduate unsure about Greek and other non-English names. The website features a special section on The Rabinal Achí that is not published in the print version. The music section, on the other hand, was not available on the website when reviewed. Although rather a disparate selection of resources, this site does contain much that is likely to be of interest to new humanities undergraduates. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.aug.edu/langlitcom/humanitiesHBK/handbook_htm/

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Caine Prize for African Writing 2008 winner

Posted by Celia Walter | 8 Jul, 2008

This year's Caine Prize for African Writing has been won by Henrietta Rose-Innes from South Africa, with her story 'Poison' from 'Africa Pens', published by Spearhead, an imprint of New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2007.
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Fair Use of Online Video: Code of Practice

Posted by Celia Walter | 8 Jul, 2008

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

July 8th, 2008

The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication presents a best practices report for making online videos within the boundaries of fair use. Building on their previous report, Recut, Reframe, Recycle, the study guides video makers through acceptable practices according to copyright law. Some of these acceptable uses include:

  • Commenting on or Critiquing of Copyrighted Material
  • Using Copyrighted Material for Illustration or Example
  • Capturing Copyrighted Material Incidentally or Accidentally
  • Reproducing, Reposting, or Quoting in Order to Memorialize, Preserve, or Rescue and Experience, An Event, or a Cultural Phenomenon
  • Copying, Reposting, and Recirculating a Work or Part of a Work for Purposes of Launching a Discussion
  • Quoting in Order to Recombine Elements to make a New Work that Depends for its Meaning on (Often Unlikely) Relationships Between the Elements

So if you’re considering making video mashups, or using copyrighted video for instructional purposes, etc. you’ll want to check out this report.

via Social Media

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WRITE ! AFRICA WRITE ! PEN/STUDZINSKI LITERARY AWARD

Posted by Celia Walter | 7 Jul, 2008
WRITE !   AFRICA   WRITE !  PEN/STUDZINSKI LITERARY AWARD
Following the success of the HSBC/SA PEN Literary Awards, SA PEN announces a call for entries for the new
PEN/STUDZINSKI Literary Award.
Writers from African and SADC countries are invited to submit original, previously unpublished, English-language
SHORT STORIES
The best entries will be selected by an editorial board for inclusion in a book to be published next year, under the working title
“NEW WRITING FROM AFRICA ”
Three prize winners will be selected by Nobel Laureate J M Coetzee
Prizes, given by John Studzinski, will be awarded:  £5 000, £3 000 and £2 000
Rules for submission of entries:
Entrants must be citizens of an African or SADC* country.

Stories, on any subject, must be in English;  length should be 2 500 to 5 000 words. 
Entries must be previously unpublished.  More than one entry may be submitted.

Entries must be typed, in double spacing, on one side of A4 paper.  Pages must be numbered and securely fastened together.  Three copies must be submitted.
No name or address should appear on the typescript, but each page must carry the title of the story.  The identity of authors will not be revealed to judges.

A covering letter with the name, e-mail & postal address, contact numbers, and photocopy of the ID of the entrant (as proof of citizenship) must be included.  Entrants may currently reside outside of Africa .

 Submission of entries implies adherence to all rules and conditions of this award, including that of copyright.

Closing date:  30th September 2008

Send your entry to:  PEN/STUDZINSKI Literary Award, P O Box 30327 , Tokai, 7966, Republic of South Africa .  Fax and e-mail entries will not be accepted.
Detailed rules and conditions for submission are available at www.sapen.co.za, 
or  e-mail SA PEN at rudebs@icon.co.za

*SADC COUNTRIES
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

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Welcome to Zon! [Macromedia Flash Player] Learn Chinese through gaming

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Jul, 2008

Welcome to Zon! [Macromedia Flash Player]

http://enterzon.com/

Learning Chinese is not easy, but this magnificent site may spark a new interest among those who have been thinking of taking up the language. Created by Professor Yong Zhao at Michigan State University, Zon is a multiplayer online learning environment designed to introduce users to the Chinese language and culture through gameplay. His work was sponsored by the Office of the Chinese Language Council International and Michigan State University. As a part of the total experience, users will have the opportunity to learn from non-player characters, responsive game agents, and other players. First-time visitors can learn more about Zon by clicking on the "About" section, and after that they can register (a quick and free process) to get started. [KMG] Internet Scout Report

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University of Pretoria institutional repository, UPSpace

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Jul, 2008

The University of Pretoria launched an institutional repository, UPSpace.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/06/up-launches-ir.html

SPARC Newsletter 

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Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment.

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Jul, 2008

Kylie Pappalardo and the Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project released a comprehensive, book-length guide for scholarly authors, Understanding Open Access in the Academic Environment.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/07/book-length-guide-to-oa-for-academic.html

SPARC Newsletter 

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Six Alternative Browsers

Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Jul, 2008

Looking to give a new browser a try? If you’re a regular user of Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, or Opera and want to test drive an alternative, the latest article from Web Worker Daily presents an annotated list of six that you might try:

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10 Best Free Software Programs

Posted by Celia Walter | 2 Jul, 2008
Columnist Peter Grad writes about 10 Great Software Programs You Can Get Gratis for TechNewsWorld. The article lists ten useful software apps which are available free of charge, along with descriptions of each. His suggestions include:
  1. Paint.net 3.08 (graphics editor)
  2. EssentialPIM 2.5 (organizer)
  3. IrfanView (image viewer)
  4. OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 (office program)
  5. PDFCreator 8.1
  6. CDBurnerXP 4.0
  7. 7-Zip 4.57 (compression program)
  8. Stickies 6.5 (sticky notes)
  9. WordWeb 5.1 (dictionary)
  10. ooVoo 1.6.1 (Internet-based telephony)
iLibrarian blog June 30th, 2008

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