Last Blog Entry

Just wanted to say that I had a great time getting to know the inner workings of web design with all of you. It was an interesting semester that really made me want to get involved with building websites. I'll keep my fingers crossed for all you who are nervous about grades. Please do the same for me lol Have a great winter break web 201, see ya next year.

Jonathan Silva

It's Over! Whew!

Wow, I can't believe another semester has passed! I want to congratulate everyone on a semester well done and on all of the creative and cool e-books that we all worked very hard on. AND A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SENIORS! Thanks for all that you have taught us Professor Ruth and I also appreciate your patience because I know I'm slow to catch on. :) Happy Holidays and enjoy your break everyone!!!

- Shari W.

That Stupid Blue Box

oh Hey I just Remembered... you know that blue box that appears around an image when you make the image a link? Well I figured out how to get rid of it finally..
[img src="Images/yim2.jpg alt="IM" width="224" height="236" border="0px" >]

in the above code the part that makes the box go away is the [border="0px"] but as far as I can tell you actually have to type that in as part of your code

-Matthew Blancher

Christmas Break

I'm Glad I took this class. All the Good times, Great ideas, and Creative projects. It's been a crazy 16 weeks and I'm glad everything I've learned from this class is going to come in handy. So My plan is to hack the crap out of this thing called "Windows Home Server" developed by Microsoft. Basically it's a full on data base server but it's a mini version for home use rather than large applications. it has a web page that allows you to access your data and Archives on the server, but it doesn't allow you to modify that page at all or add other pages... so of course I want to hack it. I don't do very well with limitations... something about them is just begging to get proven Wrong

- Matthew "Red Comet" Blancher

Sand Castle Art (Sahand Reiisieh)

Hello everyone, below are some images of perhaps some of the most beautiful and difficult works of arts you will ever see. These massive detailed structures are all made from sand. But not like just any sand castle you'd make going to the beach, but structures which display the most detailed figures and structures you'll ever see. each one of these masterpieces take hours upon hours to complete, only to come victim to the elements and only be remembered and seen by the many videos and pictures taken.

http://www.travelburner.com/2008/01/22/10-of-the-most-amazing-sand-sculptures-from-around-the-world/

ENJOY

Sahand Reiisieh

Coca Cola Art (Sahand Reiisieh)

Hello everyone, as we all know the holidays are fast approaching and when we think of holidays we think of the famous coca cola commercials! below is a link to view a history of all the beautiful coca cola ads from throughout the years showing all the changes and alterations they have been through. Many don't know but the image of santa clause was actually first presented in the earliest coca cola ads! so you can thank coca cola for giving us the idea of santa clause's jolly red suit and beard.

Enjoy

Sahand Reiisieh

http://coca-cola-art.com/

AMAZING speed art (sahand reiisieh)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2s1aBH-pbw

Hello Class,
Above is a link to an amazing video showing a talented painting in a matter of minutes called speed art! using only his hands and paint, in a matte of minutes this artist is able to create a beautiful image that will completely blow your mind! at first it will be very abstract and hard to tell what the final product will be. However, at the end result a beautiful masterpiece is created that will blow your mind! can you guess what it is???

Enjoy!
Sahand Reiisieh

FINALS!!!!(sahand reiisieh)

http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/ohe/library/mental/finals.htm

Hello class,
As we all know with finals approaching the stress levels and anxiety of everyone is going up. fortunately i found this great website that gives tips on good finals prep tips in order to get the best grade possible! hopefully you are all doing great in your classes and are prepared to rock all of your finals!!!!


Sahand Reiisieh

Thank you Ruthann!

As for my final post I just want to say thanks to Ruthann for a wonderful class and all that you've taught us. I've learned a lot more than I came in knowing. Have a great winter break!


Michelle Hy

ICONIC Images (Sahand Reiisieh)

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Iconic-images-2010/ss/events/wl/121310apyearend#photoViewer=/101213/480/urn_publicid_ap_org_e4bd0caa113f4e8e82a380d6ce818125

above is an awesome link by yahoo displaying the top 200 images of 2010. as we near closer to the start of the new year this was a great way to take a look back at all the great and iconic events through these two hundred plus still images. the imagery of these works are spectacular as we witness all the ups and downs of 2010. The triumphs and tragedies can all be seen in these great works of art! hopefully all of you enjoy =)

I'M FREEEEE!!!!

This is my last class & final. WOOOOO HOOOO! Winter break here I come!



Michelle Hy

class websites

excited to see everyone's e-book! :)

-joaan

done with finals!

yaaaaaaaaay!
goodbye fall semesterr :)
have a great winter break everyone!
-joan

Websites

I can't wait to look at everyone's page in class today as I already took a glance and it looks amazing. Very creative websites and even some stories were funny and entertaining. Congrats to Jasmine again for winning the class proposal, great sketches and you've really done a wonderful job on it.



Michelle Hy

Useful links for typography

Just thought I post some useful links for you all if you ever need some advice or ideas about typography.

http://typedia.com/
http://welovetypography.com/
http://designingwithtype.com/5/home.php



Michelle Hy

Communication Arts Magazine

If you have never looked at Communication Arts Magazine you should pick one up because it has some pretty cool stuff on design and to every aspect of design from photogrphy, advertising, illustration, etc.

http://www.commarts.com/



Michelle Hy

All Nighters

Here I am again, pumped up on coffee and rockstars at 4:00am trying to get some last minute studying done. No matter how much I study ahead of time, I always feel like im way behind. Last final on Wednesday and then its off to Mammoth to celebrate in the snow! See you all in a few hours...

Jonathan Silva

Library

Its 10:45pm at night on Monday and the library is still packed. I would swear the library was handing out A's to all the people that are here. This is so different from my community college that I went to. I mean the library was packed but everyone was in the computer lab area checking e-mails or playing online games. Not that many people were doing work. At CSUN though everybody is studying or finishing up there last papers it looks like. Library is also open until 2am just a reminder.

- Josh Reinus

Websites

Just wanted to say that I looked at the websites and thought everybody did a great job. We all learned alot this semester in the class.

- Josh Reinus

Congrats to everyone

We did it! The semester is practically over..to anyone who still has finals, you can do it! Just push through and it feels amazing once you finish.

This has been a great semester for me and I learned a lot of in each of my classes. It was my last semester at CSUN, my hardest semester and the semester that I learned the most.

Great way to end my time here!

Best of luck to everyone, and congratulations on finishing your projects for this class - every one that I've seen looks great!

--Kaytlen Weller

Explore, create, and share color themes.

If your ever having trouble picking out colors for future websites or projects, go to Kuler and the site offers a variety of colors you can get ideas from. You can even submit your own favorite color palettes to help others! Enjoy!

www.kuler.adobe.com




Michelle Hy

AIGA

Learn about AIGA and get inspired!

AIGA, the professional association for design, stimulates thinking about design, demonstrates the value of design and empowers the success of designers at each stage of their careers. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. Founded in 1914, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design, and is a nonprofit, educational institution.

WWW.AIGA.ORG



Michelle Hy

IMPROMPTU 6!

SAGA’s last even of the semester is ending with Impromptu 6 on December 17th, friday at the Art Department starting from 7:30PM

Based off the national Cut&Paste event, CSUN art students are given “Concepts” in which they have to execute in 20 minute head to head elimination rounds. The designers’ work will be projected live as they create it for all to see and for our judges to dissect. Food and a soundtrack will be provided. FREE!

We will also be holding an auction for skateboard decks designed by faculty and students.
Friends, family students, faculty, staff, and alum are all invited to enjoy and see the creativity in progress!




Michelle Hy

join SAGA!

SAGA (The Student Advertising Graphics Association) is the student chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) at CSU Northridge and is a group for graphic designers and other CSUN students who are interested in areas of visual communication. Saga's goals are to inspire, encourage and elevate student graphic designers toward excellence and innovation through group functions and seminars.

Join SAGA next spring semester 2011 for $20. You'll get information on how to build your portfolio, how to freelance, with guest speakers who have been out in the industry already, and all resourceful benefits to help you in becoming a good graphic designer.

For more information on SAGA or how to join contact:
sagamembers@yahoo.com
www.csunsaga.org



Michelle Hy

YAY DONE WITH FINALS!

im so glad finals are doneeee and over wittttth
goodluck to everyone who still have a few left! =]
-joan

Last Stressful weekend

This is it everybody the weekend has almost come to an end after we all have been studying all weekend for our last few finals. We are almost done with the semester I can see light at the end of the tunnel and winter break is right around the corner.

- Josh Reinus

Class Website

I was lookin over the class website and I really liked it. Some of you created awesome sites that really caught my attention. Im glad the semester is almost over but not happy to see finals season yet again. Good luck everyone.

Jonathan Silva

Everyone

The class page looks awsomee =)....I cant believe we are almost done with the semester. I have enjoyed being in this class and learning a lot about different ways to make a page and animations. Good luck to everyone in your finals.
Jacqueline Corey

index in the first folder

I had to fix my project because I ended up putting my index page on the wrong folder. I had to re-link all the pages and pics that I had to move. but atleast it's done now.-Leonardo P.

Almost Done

Man, this last project really worked me. Kept running into dead ends and not knowing how to fix the problems. Yet, 5 rockstars and one all-nighter later, I got her all done. Feels good to almost be done with the semester. Goodluck on finals!

Jonathan Silva

Finally Finished

I went crazy and almost broke it like 6 times but I finished. I'm worried the Story is a little hard to follow but overall I think it's a good project. Wow ! End of the semester already? Can't believe it...oh crap I only have like less than a week to get that map done. you'll see in the story.

- matthew Blancher

Finished (:

class site is up~ you can now see it on your moodle. there should be a link that leads to a pop-up. just click fall 2010 =]
-jasmine awad

The Last Week

Hard to believe it, but we've finally made it to the last week. I hope that everyone is well rested for the finals that are coming up, and for the ones who've already finished some, I hope you're resting well. ^^

-Patricia B.

class site

finished up the final version =] hopefully its the final time i have to work on it~ I hope you all like it (: im glad i took this class, it has helped me a lot haha I knew almost nothing but basic html and now i know more (: i loved being in class with you all haha you're a fun bunch~ good luck on finals!
-jasmine awad

Hope everyone has finished up!

Hey all! I hope that all is going well in your other classes and that you have been able to wrap up your final projects!

--Shari W.

Is someone deleting people's posts and comments?

So, I just checked the blog to check how many posts I have done...and I only have 4. I am confused because I have posted every week! I don't know where my posts have gone, maybe I forgot to put my name and they got deleted?

Has anyone else had their posts disappear?

I hope everyone finishes their projects on time and I am excited to see them next week!

Good luck to everyone on finals, they start in exactly one week :-/

Kaytlen Weller

Running out of Inspiration?

Finding new and creative ways to present your information is challenging. Many web designers often will use other websites as inspiration for their work.

You can find a handful of some of the best work on the internet at http://thebestdesigns.com/

- Cole Turner.

Picture Editing Websites

The website that I used for our e-book projects was lunapic.com It's a website where you can do some editing on images, like photoshop. However there are a couple of downsides that I should warn you about.

First of all the site can be difficult to work with at times. When I tried uploading new pictures after working on 3 or 4, the website did something weird to them and I ended up messing up a few.

Second it's limited in some features, especially photoshop basics. You might be able to find some if you look around enough, but primal features like painting and drawing are pretty primitive. Like Window's 'Paint' program primitive. XP

and Third the images might not work properly on websites, especially gifs. Sometimes pictures turn out drastically different to what you saw on the site, like a gif image that moves ten times slower than on lunapic. This ties in with the first warning in that the site is like working with an old, rundown scanner.

But don't let these daunt you from wanting to use the site. It's still a convenient place to jazz up your pictures, especially if you're like me and don't have iMacs or photoshop. And who knows, maybe you'll get something good out of this place.

--Patricia B.

Oh, another alternative [if some of you don't know] is photobucket.com. They keep changing the site so that you can do some pretty interesting editing to pictures, so I'd give it a whirl too. And if you want to know where I got my pics, I either googled them or got them off deviantart.com. [see one of my last posts on "Deviantart."]

=]

I hope everyone'll like the class site.. I think its coming out good.
I'm still worried about my blogs being counted.. haha i dont know how many ive done so far since my 5th one..
-jasmine awad

Don't Let the "Tough" stuff intimdate you. Challenge them.

Recently I've noticed I've been taking on stuff that would prove challenging in many ways, and have had results that have exceeded my expectations. A lot of times I considered either avoiding them or going about it through the easy way so that I wouldn't have to stress. But looking at it now and seeing the things that I was capable of doing, I'm glad that I took on the challenges in the end. I even found the progress of committing to the task really enjoyable.

It just goes to show you that even though things look "tough", you should face them head on so that you won't regret it.

--Patricia B.

Random Find #2

This semester I've been learning about the inner workings of programs like photoshop, dreamweaver, and flash. However I've always been curious about the internet and how it came to be today. With a quick search I found a pretty interesting link if you're trying to learn about how the world wide web works. Check it out and enjoy.

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/

Jonathan Silva

WAAAAAA

If you don't already know,

there is no final exam in our ART 201 class, besides our final project!

Now you can feel a lot less bummed out :).

I'm going to tell an interesting story with all those fancy Ap Div's that give me a headache.

-Avalon V.

Project 2 text

I have my story done, but I need to do the pictures. I can't do it tomorrow and need to work on my other major projects this week. Work takes most of my time and I have been to worn out to work on it most of the days. Depression's a bitch.

Christopher Brown

Thanks gibbing

Wow that went by really fast. It was supposed to be a weekend of gaming followed by a few days of school work then a long weekend. instead it ended up being a lot of computer work. I spent most of thanksgiving working on the project 2 layouts and some of it with my girlfriend. yeah, she was kinda mad even though she thought building web pages is cool. I don't have to worry to much about it though because we split on Saturday. it's ok we've been arguing most of the time anyways. Friday I was trying to animate an image so it looks like an IM conversation going on in the browser and I'm not sure how to do the typing effect any suggestion

-Matthew Blancher

Project Reminder

Don't forget that the project can only b 5mb in size to be accepted and graded.
-Josh Reinus

CS5

): I dont like it very much. i guess its because im so used to CS4... does anyone know where i can find a tutorial online on how to use cs5? I know its not too different but its different enough to frustrate me a bit (: haha thanks~
-jasmine awad

Thanksgiving Break

Every year thanksgiving rolls around and I promise myself that I'm going to use my vacation wisely and use it to get ahead (or catch up) with homework and studying. Yet, just like last year, once the family started showing up and the tequila began to flow, there was no way I was getting anything done. But at the end of the day I wasn't that disappointed because I got to spend some much needed time with my family. Got to eat a lot, drink a lot, and sleep like a bear too. I guess one way to look at it is that im rejuvenated and ready to take on finals. I am a bit worried about our last project though; the due date came up so fast. The pressure is on so I better get focused. Goodluck with your last few weeks of school everyone.

Keep It Classy,
Jonathan Silva

Interesting...

I saw this a while back but I stumbled upon it again today when I was looking through my friends blog. I think its very interesting that our mind works how it does. Can you read this?

Pretty cool huh?
On another note, how's everyone's project? I can't wait to see them!

-Jonriel Nicart

Hello everyone

Hello fellow classmates,
How was everyones thanksgiving break? I hope u had fun and ate a lot because i did. I can't believe we are done in a couple of weeks it past by so fast. Worse thing is that somehow all my project two was deleted from my laptop nd i never saved it to my usb drive so here i come all nighters. Hope everyones doing good in there project.
-Jacqueline Corey

birthday giving Blog

So hows was everybody's thanksgiving weekend? I spent mine doing webdesign. nah just kidding, it was actually my Birthday so I was doing everything but work. I hope all your projects are going well, I just wanna get the project over as fast as possible so.
here is a joke

Oliver Grau

Project Two is due

Greeting Art 201,

As you already know our project 2 is due December 2nd. The Idea of this project centralizes around an abstract and artistic depiction of a scrap book.

We will be graded for our originality as well as our use of skill in Dream Weaver. But after all of our in class assignments using Dream Weaver, this should be easier than it was before :).

Congratulations class, we've come a very long way.


-Avalon Varada

On Tweens

I have to redo this post because it appears that it did not post last time. When you do tweens in flash animation you should convert it to keyframes. Then add an extra frame on every other frame and then delete the other single frames. You do this because the tweens does not look natural in the motion. If you do this it brings the animation how it suppose to look throughout the animation. Using tweens is fine but without changing the frame works, it looks to mechanical and lifeless.

Chris Brown

Nearing an End

As finals come upon us yet again I find myself realizing how behind I already am. Pretty soon i'll be locking myself in my study dungeon; which is where i'll probably stay until school gets out for winter. I'm going to eat as much as I possible can on Thursday, take a long nap, and then eat some more. Gotta love Thanksgiving! Good luck on your final projects everyone.

Jonathan Silva

Downloadable customized tools

Hi guys, Some of you may already know this, but I found out you can download customized tools for Photoshop. For example, for my project 1 I used a customized texture tool which really helped me a lot; with just one click, instead of experimenting forever, I made my picture look like a masterpiece. Here is a link to customized brushes, patterns, textures, and more. http://www.brusheezy.com/

-Oliver Grau

Its almost coming to an end

I can't believe that the semester is almost done. I been working on my second project and hopefully everyone is doing good in their's second project. I just need a little more work to do so i can finsh it off. I noticed our new class photo and if i do say so myself it looks great. Have an awsome weekend everyone.
-Jacqueline Corey

Final Project

I can't believe this semester is almost over! With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up, we are so close to being done! It's so exciting.

I finally figured out what I'm going to do for my final project, I hope it turns out ok :)

Good luck!

Kaytlen Weller

(: lots of work

But I'm loving it~ I wish i had more ideas for my e-book..
(: I'm glad you guys like my proposal, I'll try drawing the new pic soon so everyone's in it~

-jasmine awad

Excited

I'm excited to see the different class website proposals! Hope everyone's second project is going well! There are so many things happening in the next couple weeks and its going to be hectic but fun. Thanksgiving is next week and I hope everyone has a good one. Our semester is almost over! Hang in there!!

-Jonriel Nicart

P.S. Harry Potter is coming out!!!!! Who's going to watch it?

File nightmare

So Helping a friend with a website this week I realized something...
on a server Organization is everything. We were trying to figure out why certain pages would show up one minute but not the next and many times the wrong pictures would show up in the pages on the site. I can't stress enough to everybody out there
keeping your data organized in folders followed by sub folders will always save your A$$. Also keep the same file structure for your work. that way backing up your info and sorting through it is easy and you don't spend four day sifting through a few terabytes of data...

I was also wondering if anyone would know the repercussions of making a production network of gamers and programmers completely web based. They will mainly be saving their data to the server from their homes to a server located at my home. They will also be using a forum and moodle served from my home internet connection.
-matthew blancher

Flash is faster!

The advantage of Flash is that you can use the same image multiple times, and Flash beyond this use vector graphics, which are graphics created by mathematics rather than traditional "bitmap-graphics". Thus taking Flash only a fraction of the time an image takes to download. For example, in an animation where a ball jumps across the screen, it would with Flash be the same ball jumping across the screen. But when using for example a GIF animation, it would be a whole series of images played in sequence. This means that for each frame a new picture has to be downloaded even if there has been almost no change compared to the previous picture.
-Oliver Grau

It would appear that our entire blog has been wiped out with the addition of Chris's last post. Fortunately I had noted posts as of yesterday but what a drag. All of those helpful and interesting posts!

Well, I'm attaching our class photo. Hopefully, those of you who need or want it, can use it.

I'll also put the photo in our Moodle classroom.

Professor Anderson

Something about Tweens

When you use tweens in a flash animation, you should convert the tweens to frames and then add a frame to every other frame. This makes your animation less mechanical looking. Tweens makes animation to smooth and looks different than your other animation in the file. The smoothness distracts the viewer from your animation, which you don't want.

Chris Brown

Dreamweaver is too hard

After i finished my exercise number 4, i was stunned, dreamweaver is too complicate. Thinking about the project 2, i'm wondering how many hours do i need to spend in order to complete it. However, i just have to keep reading the guideline on the website in order to understand more about Dreamweaver.

Phuong Nguyen

Html & Dreamweaver-Project 1

Yay we made it to dreamweaver guys!I'm excited to see what everyone can come up with in the new fancy program we're going to using. The critiques we're helpful the learning experience of critiques are always worth it to see what everyone is doing and motivates me to do better and try harder .

Jesselyn