I’m finding that as the weeks go on, I’m thinking more and more about how I want my final project to look. So this week’s readings on usability were slightly overwhelming, if not perfectly timed. It’s as if every week, with each additional reading, we get one more thing to think about or take into [...]
I Passed
Hooray and thanks to Laura who provided us with a link to WAVE, a very useful website to help us “test” our sites for accessibility. (As I, like most of you, couldn’t get the screen reader simulator to work on my browser.) There were a couple of best practices types comments, which I will heed [...]
Accessibility
This week’s readings on concerns of accessibility, were eye opening. I’ve worked in web companies for 12 years and I can tell you from personal experience that only one of my teams ever discussed issues of accessibility during the course of a brainstorm, build or launch of a major site. And that’s terrible. Now I [...]
Comments This Week, March 29
I commented on Roger’s and Laura’s Accessibility posts. I’m also playing with my new online, scholarly identity, so forgive me if I try on new blog titles and such.
Image Assignment and Comments
My image assignment is up. As I mentioned before, since the images for my final project are not old enough to need restoration and since I will not be working with engravings, I have a bit of a mishmash of family photos for my assignment this week. I do have historic photos of Mrs. Lee [...]
Colored Photographs: Not Just For Photoshop
I dug out an old box of family photos that I figured would hold a treasure of options for this project. I was right! (I have a ton of photos to deal with for my project, but none that need to be restored or colored, and certainly no engravings.. so I’ll have a bit of [...]
Comments: March 2 – 8
I commented on Carrie’s post and gave Sasha my two cents on her final project. Also gave Alex a huzzah for her glimmer of hope.
Confessions of a Photoshop Hack
I admit it. I’m a hack. I know enough about Photoshop to be dangerous, but not really enough to know if what I’m doing is correct. And after reading Katrin Eismann’s Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, I am flat-out breaking some cardinal rules. I never use layers. Gasp. I just move the sliders around until I [...]
Commenting Week of March 1
Turns out Zayna and I are in the same boat with color – red to be precise, which is a fabulous color, but difficult to use correctly. I also commented on Clay’s discussion of color, which in my mind sparked a “what’s better” debate: good content on a non-designed site or gorgeous design and so-so [...]
Data Visualization & The Historian
I was looking forward to revisiting Edward Tufte this week. In 2000, I scammed a free trip to one of Tufte’s day-long seminars in Crystal City. At the time, I was working for Sallie Mae as one of their web content writers and often, my work required drilling down complicated loan details into digestible webby [...]
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Erin is a PhD student at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. She studies 19th century gender, law & culture and is minoring in digital humanities. She blogs about history, writing, photography and being a part-time student.
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