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Archive for August, 2008

Refresh Detroit – September 23, 2008: Introduction to Adobe AIR for Flex and Flash Developers

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Well-known Flash and Flex author Joey Lott will be speaking at the September 23, 2008 Refresh Detroit meeting. Joey is traveling across the country, from east coast to west coast, on his way to Adobe MAX in San Francisco and we’re his first stop.
Thanks to the local Adobe user groups, FlashFocused and Detroit Area Adobe [...]

We’re Hiring: Web Designer

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

The Marketing and Communications office is looking for a talented full time web designer to work in a fast paced team on high profile university web sites. This position will be a key member making design decisions and direction.
Preferred qualifications:

Solid understanding of working with-and designing for-web applications.
Able to prototype in Photoshop and other dynamic prototyping [...]

[Friday Links] The Slow News Week Edition

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Although students are coming back to campus next week and we are slammed with work the internet seems to be a little slow. A few stories this week, mainly social media and design related.

Slides for “Color Theory and the Making of Monotone”
.eduGuru – Twitter as a Marketing Tool
.eduGuru – The Use of [...]

Inside the Wayne State University Homepage Redesign

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

It has been two months since the launch of the new wayne.edu and I wanted to take some time to give an inside look at the process, goals and results of the project.
The Wayne State homepage was getting to be a dinosaur. It was over six years old, which is at least three life times [...]

[Friday Links] The Quick Week Edition

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Quick week but a lot accomplished, so quick I forgot to post the links for the week. A couple of days late but no harm done. This weeks links range from interesting to technical. Enjoy.

HTML5 Live DOM Validator
The power of ideas
Open Web Podcast – Episode 2: Brendan Eich and Arun Ranganathan on [...]

Simplifying Higher Ed Photography Ordering

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Like most universities, our photographers are out every day taking photos. These photos go into our photo library to be used for publications, web, press releases, etc. Unfortunately, the numerous people in the photos never get to see them.
If one wanted a printed photo, they had to request the photo from the photography department it [...]

[Friday Links] The Quiet Week Edition

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Two weeks of students not roaming the malls on campus. Summer classes are out, Fall classes about to start, its a crazy time a year for us. New President, Welcome Back Week and tons of events scheduled. Enjoy the links of the week, they might include links from previous weeks but still worth reading.

Web-Based [...]

Government Affairs Site Redesign Launch

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

We just launched the redesigned Government and Community Affairs Web site. The redesign was prompted by a need to expand functionality and their site outgrew the old navigation.
The design was inspired by a drive to simplify the navigation, the old site had 3 areas where a user could find links. Centralizing the links to the [...]