Flametoad

8:15 session What  XML allows us to separate content from design even much more than HTML and CSS. XML is extensible for all types of data. Unlinke HTML, XML’s purpose is to organize data. XML is… containment – all data is contained within a tag structure an organization of data – uses tags to organize [...]

By now I’ve been to four or five other sessions today, so my note-taking is going to start becoming more brief. Furthermore, I have handouts of the presentation so I don’t need to copy as much from the screen. We in higher ed only about halfway through the millennial generation.  Due to demographics, in the [...]

Card sort is used to find trends in how website visitors expect navigation to work. At its most basic, your research group takes a stack of index cards and sorts the terms on the cards into piles based on navigation structure. Quantitative analysis “I have a stack of cards. These cards represents terms of links [...]

Facebook Came to this session a bit late since I was posting my last set of notes. This is a packed room. People are standing around the door. I just lucked out and was able to grab a chair from someone who left.  Universities are starting to use the Facebook API to add their own [...]

Here’s a little bit of insight into my professional life–that is, the other, non-publishing professional life. For the next few days I’m at a conference for Higher Education web developers and I’ll be blogging my session notes for my colleagues back home.   Travel/pre-conference Looong day of travel. The alarm reeled me out of bed [...]