Pixel Surfers

Living Design is worth a mention

This site features an imaginative and unusual blog design that is lovingly crafted down to the last element. In addition, though, the art and design the author highlights is truly unusual and extraordinary; unusual as in beautiful. So much in the way of art today just seems ugly and anti-human to me. This collection, [...]

How to replace standard Moodle icons with Tango icons

One of the things that I liked about different Moodle themes are their icon sets, because IMO the standard Moodle icons are ugly and uninspiring. However, what if I wanted to use a better icon set with all of my themes? Was there a way to replace the standard icons? And what would you replace [...]

Success and first module: breadcrumbs

On xhtmlteacher.org I now have a basic taxonomy with terms set up for my xhtml class material and I’ve added the first pages. I managed to set up a menu and create urls that are very similar to the way things were organized on the hand-coded site; minor victories that have given me confidence. One [...]

Another Moodle Competitor?

Google has just launched an open-source course/learning software solution called Cloudcourse that may rival Moodle. The more I use Moodle, the more I don’t want to use it, so I guess any alternative is welcome, but…

Oh man, at first glance this looks really sweet. I live my life on Google already and the idea of [...]

Refreshing with Drupal

I moved all of my class materials off of Moodle several semesters ago to a straight HTML-based site and I was quite happy with the results. However, I decided to move all class material yet again to a dedicated URL just purchased for this purpose. I guess I was inspired by the recent Web 2.0 [...]

Learning from the students

I’ve been meaning to revive this blog for some time. At one point I found it essential for tracking the progress I was making in web design, the problems I was having with coding, content management systems, hosting and other related things. I don’t have a “readership” and I really don’t want one. This blog [...]

Epic Re-design Fail

The Sci Fi channel has redesigned their name and logo. As someone who actually watches this channel, I have to say that this is a fail of epic proportions. Who are they trying to appeal to, the “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” crowd?

Redesign Epic Fail!

Woo Hoo! I’m back up again.

I haven’t been paying much attention to my own sites over the last year or so. Which is why it just so happened that all of my sites on one server were hacked! I think I had an insecure password, and they made a mess of everything by inserting Javascript trojans in every .php and [...]

How blogs invigorate learning and extend the conversation

I don’t have any experience teaching, but I have been learning the ins and outs of web design over the last seven years or so. So far, I have had the experience of learning both in online classes and, more recently, through online communities. These online communities are comprised of a loose-knit combination of bloggers, [...]

URL faux pas

My sister, who is studying graphic design in the Yukon, just sent me this list of URL choices that should have been vetted a little more thoroughly before being decided upon by the marketing team. Now, I like URLs without underscores and dashes because they are harder to remember, but a few well-placed dashes may [...]