US spy operation that manipulates social media

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2011/02/19/us-gov-t-software-creates-fake-people-spread-message-social-networking

http://www.examiner.com/social-media-in-national/us-gov-software-creates-fake-people-on-social-networks-to-promote-propoganda

Amazon PriceCheck barcode scanning app, the end of retailing as we previously knew it . . .

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=aw_ppricecheck_iphone_mobile

Four Lines Of Code Is All It Takes For The New York Times’ Paywall To Come Tumbling Down

http://www.businessinsider.com/four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2011-3

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/that-was-quick-four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2/

The New York Times subscription plan doesn’t protect print, it promotes the mobile Web

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/mobile-media/124900/the-new-york-times-subscription-plan-doesnt-protect-print-it-promotes-the-mobile-web/

Usage share of web browsers

http://gs.statcounter.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Browser Display Statistics

Browser Display Statistics, incl Web Statistics and Trends - http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

How old is this webpage?

http://proch.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/how-old-is-this-webpage/

Uses a little javascript.

Graphic Designer's Roadmap (Infographic)

Posted on February 24th, 2011. Written by Sean.

Over the past 3 months we interviewed a series of industry leading graphic designers on our blog. From their interviews, we created an extremely useful infographic entitled “Graphic Designer’s Road Map” which features information to help you grow as a graphic designer.

http://blog.smartpress.com/printing-interesting-resources/graphic-designers-roadmap-infographic

Originally found this on http://twitter.com/czoulek

Disadvantages of Using Wikis

An alternative view:

http://www.gadgetgirlaccessories.com/internet-geek/disadvantages-of-using-wikis/

On Twitter, ‘What a Party!’ Brings an Envious ‘Enough, Already!’

Ah, human emotions strike again.

Article from the NY Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/us/19twitter.html

New acronym from this article: FOMO - “Fear Of Missing Out”

Don't forget that people are using technology, and will bring their human feelings with them.

You type something; we turn it into a movie . . .

You type something; we turn it into a movie . . . http://www.xtranormal.com/

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is?

WTF? What The Font?

http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

Top 5 Social Media Myths Debunked

As with any new technology, social media has spawned its share of misconceptions and myths that keep people from interacting.

It’s time to debunk the big myths that are keeping business owners and marketers on the social media sidelines.

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/top-5-social-media-myths-debunked/

Want to learn more about social media marketing?

120+ free social media marketing resources - http://www.lizhover.com/resources/

These blog posts are usually cross-posted on my Twitter page

These blog posts are usually cross-posted on my Twitter page at http://twitter.com/HerbRipka

Web design news and information

Dubbed King of Web Standards by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman was one of the first designers, bloggers, and independent publishers on the web, and one of the first web design teachers. In 1998, he co-founded and designed—and from 1999 to 2002 he directed—The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that helped bring HTML, CSS, and JavaScript standards to our browsers.

http://www.zeldman.com/

Follow Jeffrey Zeldman on Twitter at http://twitter.com/zeldman

Editing CSS and Joomla! Templates: Logos and Banners

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/webmaster/toolbox/editing-css-and-joomla-templates-logos-and-banners-.html

What is JavaScript?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/About_JavaScript

The Essential Guide to @font-face CSS method

Fonts on the Web

The days of being limited to a handful of fonts on the web are very close to being a thing of the past. The problem is no longer a lack of viable solutions, but rather, an abundance of them.

Read more at  http://sixrevisions.com/css/font-face-guide/

Get all(?) of the Top E-commerce News

http://ecommerce.alltop.com/

Lots of other collections of top news in LOTS of fields at http://alltop.com/

Free pictures

Free pictures at http://sxc.hu/ - "the leading FREE stock photo site!"

Google Web Fonts API

http://www.google.com/webfonts

Try Font previewer with letter, word and line spacing!

Layers - The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe

http://layersmagazine.com

The final PRINT Issue of Layers was Jan/Feb 2011.

What does that tell you?

An Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp

Use the Photoshop Eyedropper Anywhere on your screen!

"Need to match a color from a web page or something else while working in Photoshop? Just click with the eyedropper tool somewhere in your Photoshop file, and drag the cursor off to sample colors from anything visible on your screen.

That’s it!"

Found this at  http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/use-the-photoshop-eyedropper-anywhere/

It becomes your foreground color.

What web color is that?

What web color is that? Try these Color Charts with hexadecimal code - http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/color_charts/

Top Photoshop News

To keep up with changes in Adobe's Photoshop, go to Top Photoshop News at  http://photoshop.alltop.com/

Its an RSS feed from 38 photoshop websites, all in one. You can mouse over five story titles from each of those websites, and read the first paragraph from that story.

"The easiest way to give your web site a professional look"

"Web Design Tools for the Rest of Us"

Design Buttons, Text, Logos, Menus, Textures, Text, Boxes, Icons

Browse already created Backgrounds, Textures, Fonts, Sound Effects . . .

http://www.grsites.com

P.S. Hat tip to instructor Jim Schutte from ViCom-128 for sharing this!

Want a Photoshop Tip of the Day?

Want a Photoshop Tip of the Day? Go to http://www.planetphotoshop.com/category/tips

Welcome to Handy Tips for Web Design

I am a student enrolled in the One-Year Web Design Technical Diploma program at MATC in Milwaukee, WI. There is a lot of reading required for these classes.

I'll share ideas with you as I'm finding from my classes. Enjoy!