Great read on higher ed websites as prompted by that XKCD cartoon
But even then, some colleges’ home pages are saturated with features that do not so much reflect guesses at what visitors need, but what various campus interests want. Greenfield said “home page politics” — different departments and personalities jockeying for position — have a strong influence on what an institution’s site ends up looking like. After all, he said, if a president says he wants a letter and a mission statement out front, what Web administrator is going to say no?
No Laughing Matter at Inside Higher Ed
Object-Oriented PHP
So clear and beginner-friendly, it doesn’t need a summary from me: Object-Oriented PHP for Beginners at Tutsplus+
Web reading
Now that my eyes are starting to accept a little more screen time, I’m trying to catch up on some feed reading. Here are some of the more useful web design/development links I’ve come across in the past few days:
- A Myriad of Vintage Grunge Patterns From Across the Web
- 45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials
- The New Ultimate Guide to Migrating from Blogger to WordPress
- 35 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid
- BgPatterns: Tiled backgrounds designer
Snow is good for…
I not-so-secretly love children’s books and series, especially ones that describe how things were done in another time or circumstance (Swiss Family Robinson, Little House on the Prairie). I always thought it was so cool that they did things like make balloons out of pig’s bladders or burned whale blubber in lamps. Anyway, thekitchn comes through with the method for maple syrup taffy, a la Little House in the Big Woods. Think it’s loose-diet friendly?
I’m a space cadet and I only say totes to Vivian
The other half already blogged this, but I’m still giggling about it so here goes.
me: so i was reading some lost recap type things
and i realized that i am so not into this whole lost-ology shit
Vivian: ugh me neither
me: i mean i love lost
but i don’t know what they are talking about sometimes
Vivian: oh haha i don’t
me: it’s a good show
totally sucks you in
alias-style
Vivian: i’m more interested in shows that are heavier on the philosophical allegories
rather than just twisty turny symbolism and suspense
me: ah i guess i had never thought about lost as a religious allegory
which is apparently what people keep talking about
like here this whole time i’ve been calling a character “dude in the black sweater”
but apparently the rest of the lost world has named him esau because his nemesis is jacob
sigh
Vivian: WHATEVS
that was a great book by the way
[about 10 seconds]
me: the bible?
Vivian: HAHAHAHA
omg no
me: HAHA
Vivian: “jacob have i loved”
me: sorry i was totes confused
Vivian: i seriously LOL’d
me: hahahahahaha i did too
Package day, part 2 (books)
Bought the following from Amazon, after a long period of adherence to my “no more books” policy:
