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Archive for March, 2009

[Friday Links] The UI Edition

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

This week is all about user interfaces. Mobile, Browser and Accessible interfaces. All have different needs but the same goal, get users to the information they need. Enjoy.

jQTouch: a mobile WebKit JavaScript framework
Demystifying Interaction Design
7 jQuery Plugins to Manipulate TEXTAREAs | Steve Reynolds Blog
10 Best jQuery Datepickers Plugins | AjaxLine
Why [...]

Commencement Web Site Launch

Friday, March 27th, 2009

We are proud to announce the launch of the Commencement web site redesign!
Above is the visual comparison of the old site (left) to the new one (right).
Our main goals were to give the homepage a clean, polished, professional look that is inline with the University identity, and to create a site that would make it [...]

Weclome Chris Kassab! Our new Student Developer

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

We have a new student assistant starting today, Chris Kassab. Chris is a computer science major at Wayne State and he is going to be helping out with back end development for a few of our ongoing internal projects.
Over the past year or so the growth of new projects has been great. Groups have been [...]

[Friday Links] The Programming Edition

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Completely by chance all the articles this week are programming focused. A lot of great stuff though. #sxsw was going on this week and a TON of blogs focused on their talks. In addition Internet Explorer 8 was announced at the MIX conference. Enjoy the weekly links.

HTML 5 section is not just a “semantic [...]

March 26, 2009: Information Architecture Summit ‘09 Recap at Wayne State

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

What: Information Architecture Summit, Detroit Recap
Where: Kresge Library Auditorium, Wayne State University
When: Thursday, March 26, 11:00 am
The 10th Information Architecture Summit will be March 20-22 in Memphis, The IA Summit is the premier event for the IA community and represents the state of the art of the field. Hear from people who attended this session [...]

Task of indexing all Wayne State Web sites

Friday, March 20th, 2009

There are a lot of web sites at the university, we are not sure the total number but we know its growing every day. In order to keep the order we have a two fold site index linked from wayne.edu. You can find it on the top right of the page called “A-Z Site Index”.

The [...]

Getting Around Campus On The Go

Monday, March 16th, 2009

We have begun adding functionality to our Campus Map, which is currently developed in Flash, to be accessible to the iPhone and iPod Touch.
The iPhone cannot view the Flash site so if you wanted to look at or follow the map you were out of luck. With a little iPhone detection we redirect users to: [...]

[Friday Links] The Pi Day Edition

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Pi day and a HUGE list of links this week. Web workers have been busy pumping out some great content. If you can’t keep up with it all each day here is a list of the best bits. Enjoy.

Mobile compatibility tables
Want More Web Traffic? Blog More Often!
Screen reader testing
Is optimizing CSS [...]

Refresh Detroit Meeting – March 25 – Transitioning from Print to Web Design

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Join us on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 when Noel Jackson of Automattic, Inc. (known for their WordPress and Akismet projects) will discuss the differences between print and web design.
What separates print and web in the design community? What do designers need to know to bridge the gap between print and the web? What constraints do [...]

[Friday Links] The Catching Up Edition

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Its a catch up week. Recently projects have been stacking up quickly. Enjoy these links, then get back to work!

5 Javascript Chart Alternatives | Steve Reynolds Blog
Connecting social media to strategic communications
Calculate your content to markup ratio
10 ways to measure social media success | Blog | Econsultancy
jQuery UI 1.7 Released: [...]