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HTML Templates: Making Learning Fun and Easy
For my last week of ICM 505, I set out to make a full, working webpage that fully looks like a webpage. As I said before, the most...
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Jul 8, 20223 min read
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Standing Out with SEO
If you work at a company that has any form of online presence, you have probably attended at least one meeting concerning SEO. Search...
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Jul 4, 20223 min read
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Digital Driving: Increasing Website Traffic Through Marketing
After spending hours carefully crafting the content, it’s time to start promoting it. It’s not enough to just post your site and hope...
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Jun 24, 20224 min read
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Plugins and Widgets: Adding More Functionality to Your Website
In today’s digital world, content is king. Useful content motivates a visitor to read, engage, purchase, and most importantly return....
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Jun 24, 20223 min read
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Why Responsive Design Matters
With so many devices available, the user experience has never been more unique. People can access the web through their smart phone, a...
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Jun 20, 20222 min read
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Optimizing Images for Better Site Performance
First impressions are very important when it comes to most things and websites are no exception to that rule. 64% of an average website’s...
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Jun 20, 20223 min read
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What Do Semantics Have To Do With HTML?
In its most basic definition, the word semantics is the study of meanings. In the field of linguistics, it is the study of language...
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Jun 13, 20222 min read
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Exercise in the Design Process
When setting out to create a webpage or web content of any kind, the first step is to visualize and plan what you want to create. In web...
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Jun 10, 20223 min read
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Hand Coding vs. CMS
Starting a coding project can seem daunting. A lot of people tend to hear web design and immediately think of writing code, inspiring...
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Jun 9, 20223 min read
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What Makes a Website “Good”?
In today’s digital world, it’s safe to say everyone can identify a bad website when they see one. But what makes up a good website? While...
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May 29, 20222 min read
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Minor Tweaks: Improving My Personal Website
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the most knowledgeable when it comes to web design. The most experience I have with coding is changing...
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May 29, 20222 min read
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Module Seven: TELLING A STORY II – Mini Doc (Production and Post)
Reading and Writing At the close of The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video, Tom Schroeppel encourages future filmmakers to break...
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May 9, 20222 min read
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Module Six: TELLING A STORY I – Mini Doc (Pre-Production)
Reading and Writing Chapter 07 of The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video focuses on lighting. We all know how nice footage turns...
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May 1, 20224 min read
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Module Five: CONTINUITY – How-To Video
Research and Reading In Chapter 03 of The Bare Bones Camera Course for Film and Video, Tom Schroeppel explains how audiences tend to be...
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Apr 25, 20223 min read
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Module Four: VISUAL COMPOSITION – Visual Montage (Production and Post)
Reading and Writing Okay! Congratulations you’ve finished recording the art and world around you, you have footage that you’re proud of,...
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Apr 18, 20223 min read
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Module Three: VISUAL COMPOSITION I – Visual Montage (Pre-Production)
Research When setting out to film just about anything, the first thing you’ll need is a camera. In his book The Bare Bones Camera Course...
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Apr 11, 20225 min read
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Module Two: AUDIO DESIGN II – Podcast (Production and Post)
Once all the proper equipment has been gathered and all materials have been prepared, it’s time to get down to recording. Not everyone...
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Apr 4, 20223 min read
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Module 01: AUDIO DESIGN I – Podcasting (Pre Production)
In 2004, journalist Ben Hammersley of the BBC combined the words “iPod” and “broadcast” to coin the term podcast. While not an immediate...
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Mar 27, 20225 min read
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IMDb Site Usability Research
This report is an in-depth evaluation of the internet movie database IMDb. Prior to the start of this research, IMDb underwent a redesign...
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Mar 13, 20222 min read
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Usability Testing
What is it? Usability testing is a technique used in user-centric interaction design to evaluate a product by testing in on users. In a...
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Mar 7, 20222 min read
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