Rounded edges are naturally easier on the eye and give a calm flowing feel. They are in use on so many websites and can be assembled hundreds of ways. This is just one way to create this visual effect.
First things first, you’ll need some kind of image editing (more…)
I recently created a game that needed a random number generator. Searching the internet, I found many ways to create one. Some seemed overly complicated, but I came across this and it seems to work perfectly, at least for the application I used it in. What I was trying to do was create random behavior for the computer AI when fighting the human player. The way this works is I created a movie clip with all the monster’s animations for his different behaviors. so from from (more…)
I started doing some side research on my own about php. What I found so far is, PHP is installed on over 20 million websites and 1 million web servers. It is a server side scripting language for making dynamic and interactive Web pages. It’s used for controling databases such as MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC. PHP files can contain text, HTML tags and scripts and it’s files are returned to the browser as plain HTML.
PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
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I looked into copyright laws concerning web designers and artists in general and I think my head might explode from reading too much legalese. But it seems to me, the best thing an artist can do is retain ownership of their art even if it is created for someone else. When we as designers create a site or piece of art for a client, we should hold on to the copyright for said idea. This way if our idea becomes a billion dollar piece of branding that a company uses, we’re entitled to a piece of the pie. Designing a site and elements for a site, web designers should keep ownership of almost everything such as php pages, javascript, pngs, etc. this (more…)
Today we discussed wireframing in web II. Wireframing is the process in which we start to figure out site hierachy and navigation. It’s very basic layout. We’re not thinking about colors or visual elements yet. Wireframing is barebones layout. what pages link to what pages. How’s the navigation going to be laid out, etc.
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