Jennatrudeau's Blog

I made this site off of a previous site I had made.  I used the same template from a project I had last year to make a web site.  I pretty much used the same layout as I had before because I like how it looked; however, I completely changed the whole look of it.  [...]

Adobe technology is at the center of virtually every print and digital workflow, so undoubtedly a lot of what you¹ll see getting delivered to the iPad will have originated in Adobe creative software. It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other [...]

A site built to web standards should adhere to standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS) and pursue best practices (valid code, accessible code, semantically correct code, user-friendly URLs etc). In other words, a site built to web standards should ideally be lean, clean, CSS-based, accessible, usable, and search engine friendly. Some of the advantages of using [...]

Card sorting is a technique that many information architects use as an input to the structure of a site or product. It’s a user-centered design method for increasing a system’s findability. The process involves sorting a series of cards, each labeled with a piece of content or functionality, into groups that make sense to users [...]

There were many common elements that each web site had of the design process. Some of them are: Planning- This initial stage is where you define your goals and objectives for the web site and begin to collect and analyze the information you’ll need to justify the budget and resources required. This is also the [...]

Within any given medium there are unique constraints that can affect the way designers make use of the principles and elements of design. These constraints can be based on a variety of different things including materials, technology, processes and standards in the industry. The Web is no different. Designing for a Web-based environment enacts a [...]