Attention Advertising Students:
The AIP Advertising department will be hosting a town hall meeting in Room 440 at Noon on Thursday, December 18th.
Pizza and drinks will be provided. Come and learn more about the revised ADV curriculum rollout for 2009!
Hey gang, for those of you who could use an extra grand or two for your education, EDMC has announced its 2009 scholarship program. Read the EDMC Foundation Announcement [PDF] and then fill out the
2009 Scholarship Application. Good luck!
As we get into the final couple of weeks of our Introduction to Programming course, we will look beyond this course at some tools that will help you extend the functionality of your web sites.
This week, we will be looking at the MooTools framework and learning the ropes of how to work this into your web sites.
To truly get rolling with MooTools, you can start with the MooTutorial to get some of the basics under your belt. Obviously, your budding knowledge of the Javascript language will be of great benefit as you add to your skill set.
Introduction to MooTools for non-programmers should help you to get started with this framework.
For the record, MooTools is not the only popular JavaScript framework available through the open source community. You can select from frameworks such as JQuery, YUI, Prototype JS, or the many others that seem to spring up overnight. This list from Six Revisions has a lot of newer resources listed. Stay current!
I also recommend looking through Smashing Magazine to keep up on current web design trends and tutorials. You could spend hours there, but I did find a link to some free Javascript tutorials and scripts through a link from SM.
In fact, the combination of MooTools and this Form Validation library might be very helpful as you build your virtual ATM.
Hi there…
My name is William, and you may have reached this site in search of information about the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, or in search of a Super Happy Time (coming soon…), or in search of the Most Greatest (also coming soon!) … and even though you got lost along the way, thanks for stopping by! I’ve been doing a lot of housekeeping on the sites lately, and I’m hoping that this new configuration will suit the needs of students, fellow educators, random visitors, and perhaps a family member or two.
I am an instructor of Web Design and Interactive Media at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and I teach a number of courses related to information and interactive media design, screen design, graphics design, Photoshop and digital imaging, and other related design courses. Additionally, I teach a media communications course, a handful of online/Internet marketing courses, and an occasional computer literacy course.
Being a “jack of all trades, master of none” has paid off well for me, but I sometimes feel that I should narrow the scope of my perspective. (That, however, is very unlikely!)
You can read all about me in the About section of the site. I also own and operate a very modest consulting company called williamjmedia LLC and I will be rolling out more information about the company within the next month or so.
I have a handful of registered domains and I intend to use each of these for a particular purpose. Right now, I’m cleaning up the main site, so if you have come here seeking knowledge or a particular resource, leave me a note/comment to let me know what it is you are seeking.
In the coming weeks, you will find some of the posts that I liked from the old blogs, some resources and links that I’ve found to be useful throughout the years, links to my del.icio.us feed, my Twitter feed, my Facebook profile, my LinkedIn profile, my entire digital fingerprint … all here for your browsing (and hopefully not stalking) purposes!
And if you would be so kind, please subscribe to the RSS feed for the site. If you have no idea what RSS means, get on the bandwagon! Sign up.
Peace.
-wjm