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Grades

isidore — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:48:30 GMT

Does anyone know what the grade breakdown is? What point range equals B, B+, A-, etc...?

Nice site for overall design planning and concepts

aparisia — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:07:25 GMT

http://webdesignfromscratch.com/

adding in access sheets

arettke — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:03:46 GMT

Our group added in forms and datasheets the other day. They show up but we can't seem to get it so that we can edit or add information to them from the web site. If anyone had this problem and knows how to fix it we would really like to know. Thank you

global spam leaders

egolovch — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:15:07 GMT

Browsing around the Internet the following title drew my attention 'Russia becomes spam superpower,' it was kind of surprising for me that Russia is “catching up” with the United States in terms of spam. The US sent 21.3% of global spam over the quarter, Russia goes second (4.4%) with China in third place with 4.2%

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=11388

Rss feed help

eleland — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:11:56 GMT

Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to keep web sites running when an RSS feed goes down or is unable to be located. Today when I looked at my site, the page with the RSS feed was no longer working. After looking around for a reason I found that just changing it to a diffrent RSS feed fixed the problem. Is this a common problem/ worry for sites that implement RSS feeds?

Erik

Interesting or useful articles, resources, and web sites

gcastner — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:21:54 GMT

If you find an interesting resource, relevant article, or web site that is relevant to the class, use this thread to post the article or link.

Here is one to start off:

Google tweaked search 450 times in 2007
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9921148-7.html?tag=nefd.top

For group 103 project

sxu — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:11:22 GMT

On "Profile" page, you may create a hyperlink for each member. The table just shows some very basic information. But with hyperlink, you can add more texts and pictures.

You may also add link to the email address.

Group 107 Suggestions

chanvill — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:48:08 GMT

- The candidates page could be a slide show

- Perhaps images for the company names on the Strategic Partners Page

- Maybe some sort of database for your investors page

- Watermark for Login section

For Group 102

tseymour — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:47:22 GMT

1. We think that you could set up a cascading drop down menu on the tournaments page. That way a person can choose their Region, then State, then City which would allow them to find local tournaments. Plus if you have an "all" field in each of the drop downs they could broaden their search as well.

2. You could also use a popup control that alerted visitors of upcoming tournaments. That way when they visit the homepage the first time it pops up with a reminder or promotional popup for the tournament.

3. On the products page you could use an animation to display detailed product information. Instead of displaying the Manufacturer and such in gridview you could have them popup in an animation.

To Group 113 Ideas

thandy — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:43:43 GMT

1. Make the brushes page (and maybe all the products pages) an accordian. Have the product name the top banner and when you click on the banner and the description, the three different prices and a picture of the product show up.

2. Have a rating system for the different products that different customers can come on and rate the various products that they have purchased.

3. A slideshow on the homepage of various photos in order to engage the viewer.

Suggestions for Group 112 from Group 106

jwatson2 — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:40:48 GMT

*In the product section, you could have pictures of the product. Then, you could use animation so that when the viewer clicks on the product, a new window with a description pops up.

*List search extenders might be helpful in the product section so people could scroll for the product they want (ex:shampoo and see all the different brands).

*The meet our employees section could be a slide show.

Group 108 AJAX Recommendations

jschoeni — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:40:30 GMT

-DropDown: For example, on the "Sinks" box you could use this control and allow the user to select what type of sink they are looking for from the home page.

-SlideShow: On the Home Page displaying all of your products. Allow the user to click on a picture and go to that product.

-ToggleButton: Possibly implement a user rating system using this control.

Suggestions to Group 101, from Group 109

snelson8 — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:40:21 GMT

For the order page:

Text Box Watermarks will aid customers in which information should be written in the different boxes
A Confirm Button on the order page will also ensure that customers have filled out all their information correctly before actually submitting and paying for their order

For the page in general:

For the Bees page, instead of using all text in the accordion, have some kind of animation link included that would customers would be able to click on and a picture of the bee would pop up on their screen
The Bees page could also maybe have a Slideshow incorporated into it. This could be helpful for your more visually inclined customers who would much rather see pictures than read about bees

Suggestions to group 100

gcastner — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:39:43 GMT

1. ModalPopUpExtender - When you click on new to do link, use modalpopupextender to darken the remainder of the page until the new to do item is completed and prevent accidently clicking on other parts of the page (similar to user account control popup in Windows Vista)

2. ConfirmButtonExtender - Used to confirm delete of new todo items

3. Accordion or hoverextender for viewing existing todo items

Suggestions for group 114

khagert — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:38:13 GMT

Hover menu: they could use a hover menu to display artists, then when someone mouses over the name of an artist they are interested in, it would display a list of mix tapes where they can hear that artist (or magazines where they can read about that artist)

Calendar: they could have a calendar of artist concert dates/tv appearances/mix tape releases, etc.

Animation: They could use Animation to have a box popup with artist information (or mix tape information, or magazine information). They could also use this when they get merchandize up on their site….i.e. click on the t-shirt and up pops size/color/price details.

Slide show: They could use a slide show to show pictures of the artists or pictures of their merchandize/magazines on the home page. Especially if people could click on that to see more info on what they are interested in.

To group 106

krobilla — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:33:38 GMT

What a neat place to do a website for. Some suggestions for AJAX:

1) Tabs-place in Nav bar (move sitemap above yellow box)

2) Slideshow- for a revolving poster page

3) Hovermenu- when you hover over a poster, the info pops up next to it

4) Rounded Corners on the main page

Group 103 Ajax Ideas

bob — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:33:35 GMT

1. Calendar: Using the animation ajax tool, we think you could have the calendar appear without having the user load a new page.

2. Announcements: If you are planning on adding more content to your home page, and the announcements were not the focus. We think you could use a collapsiblepanel to minimize the amount of content initially loaded for your homepage.

3. Schedule Page: Use ajax accordion tool to display the instructors schedule by class. Drop down the important information for each class.

Group 109 AJAX Recommendations

aparisia — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:29:39 GMT

(1) One of our group members is familiar with SeedBallz, and knows that products are manufactured by mentally challenged folks, so we thought the slideshow extender would be a good presentation format for these images.

(2) Cascading dropdown for product ordering would be nice, if there are enough variants to necessitate this extender. This extender can help customers figure out what they want.

(3) The rating extender would allow customers to rate products, and if looped back to the database, would allow immediate comparitive statics to company regarding customer satisfaction.

(4) A calendar extender would allow customers to input the dates they want something to bloom, which would return the flowers that could grow given the season and time constraints.

Group 105 AJAX control recommendations

bhartma3 — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:29:11 GMT

1. On the get tickets page, utilize an accordion control to condense the details for each ticket outlet. That way, users don't have to scroll down to see

all of the entries.

2. Use a watermark control in the login box, to suggest "Enter Username"

3. For the "Get Directions" page, use an 'open in a new window ajax control' so users are not directed away from your page.

Suggestions for Group 110

kregan — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:29:05 GMT

As far as ASPX controls on your site, we recommend:

1. Add the watermark search bar control saying "search" or something like that,

2. Depending on how you want to do it, but you could incorporate accordian controls into your picture gallery, separated by event. It would look something like Grant's class page.

3. The same could be done with the video library section.

Thanks,

Group 100

Group 104 from Group 105

eleland — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:28:54 GMT

First Idea: Use the tabbed browsing for looking at the menu, sort it by the type of food so it is quick and easy to find what you are looking for.

Second Idea: Create a Slide Show using Ajax in the photo gallery. This will create a very professional look to the gallery.

Third Idea: Use the Rating control on Ajax to allow people to rate your food items. This would allow others to see what dishes are the favorites.

~Group 105

Map an IP address

bhartma3 — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:34:26 GMT

enter any IP address and see a google map of its location

http://www.seomoz.org/ip2loc

RSS Feeds

isidore — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:00:51 GMT

Hi All,

After the lecture about RSS feeds I noticed that you could also receive them on your Microsoft Outlook or Gmail. It's pretty cool. I have a few set up. Just wanted to pass the info along. To add feeds you have to go to the site that you want...for instance WWD.com and find the link that shows the avilable feeds. On outlook you click tools, account settings and then select the RSS feed tab. You then past the link into the box and you're done. Pretty cool!

Danielle

Access Drop Down Menus

cgray3 — Sun, 18 May 2008 22:05:51 GMT

Hi all -

Just wondering if anyone incorporated a drop down menu in their project and might be able to give me a quick tip or steps on how to do that. I am not sure if this is something I do in the form view or the table view. For example, for part 3, the repository of resources, I was hoping to do a drop down for type of resource (handout, website, workshop, person, etc.).

Thanks!

Cassie

Facebook Disconnects Google: Protecting Users... Or Itself?

gcastner — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:09:44 GMT

By Timothy Lee, Fri, May 16th 2008 12:09pm

Infoworld reports that Facebook has cut off Google's Friend Connect service from accessing Facebook's APIs. Facebook claims that Google Friend Connect "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect." Techcrunch has more details about what Google was doing and what Facebook objected to. Facebook is getting a fair amount of flack for this decision, and it's not hard to see why. Given that Facebook has just rolled out its own competing service for linking third-party websites to Facebook, we can't help but wonder if the privacy issues aren't just a cover to avoid having to interoperate with a major competitor.

Full article: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080515/2115201132.shtml