Category Archives: web design
25+ of Danny’s Favorite Multimedia Tools
Many handymen have a favorite wrench or drill they adore and always keep with them. Well, journo-geeks are no exception. Below is a shortlist of more than 25 of my favorite (and mostly free) multimedia tools. I put together this … Continue reading
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New Tableizer! Tool Turns Spreadsheets into HTML Charts
Web producers here in our newsroom often have to throw up quick charts of data online, but hand-editing a table from a spreadsheet or exporting it from Office or Dreamweaver can be a time-consuming endeavor. Well, now you have Tableize!, … Continue reading
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BlogOrlando Schedule Posted, Registration Open
If you’ve been waiting to see who’s coming to BlogOrlando this year before you decide to make the trip, well wait no further! The schedule is now posted and features some of the smartest blogging minds around — all for … Continue reading
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Excellent Cheat Sheets for Producers, Designers
Ever since 9th grade, I’ve been a sucker for learning Photoshop shortcuts and speed tricks (such as one of my faves, holding the “alt” key to trigger the “Reset” button in image adjustment panels). So I just had to pass … Continue reading
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How the UM Student Paper went from College Publisher to WordPress
Interested in knowing the nuts and bolts of what it takes to move your entire newspaper site from a vendor to an open-source WordPress install? Visit Miami Hurricane online editor Greg Linch’s blog for the play-by-play from webmaster Brian Schlansky. … Continue reading
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Catnip for Online Designers with SND’s Best of Multimedia Entries
Want to see the best online information design the news industry is producing? Then you might want to tune into the SND Update Blog for the next few days as SND highlights entries from their worldwide Best of Multimedia Design … Continue reading
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Free Photoshop web design book
The folks over at Sitepoint are giving away another great PDF book that’s perfect for online news producers: The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web design Tips, Tricks & Techniques I previously got a nifty Ruby on Rails book from Sitepoint that … Continue reading
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Webby Award winners announced (with news organization list)
Just announced: 2008’s Webby Award winners! The Webby Awards picks through the best of the Web and grants awards in more categories than you can shake a stick at. I’ve pored through the list and extracted the winners from news-related … Continue reading
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SXSW video is online
Head on over to the conference site for South by Southwest (SXSW) for free video from the media and entertainment conference. You’ll want to particularly peruse the Interactive Coverage. And yes, the much-maligned Zuckerberg/Lacy interview is there too. I wasn’t … Continue reading
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The worst TIME magazine covers ever
Perhaps a well-placed lolcat caption can redeem this 1981 TIME magazine cover… Usually I try to spotlight stuff that news organizations are doing right, but there’s also much to be learned from the downright horrific. So check out TIME’s humorous … Continue reading
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta released
Just a quick need-to-know: Microsoft has made available the first public beta of the new Internet Explorer 8. If you’re a designer for your news site, you’ll want to become familiar with the new browser as soon as you can … Continue reading
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Trains and trends: the web in 2008
Design blog Information Architects has created a fantastically cool visualization of 2008’s biggest web trends, all pinned to a map of Tokyo’s train system. I know; it sounds strange. But it really is quite awesome. Soon as I get to … Continue reading
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