Web Design and Publishing

Chase & Jeff’s Final Project

mrcrogers — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:38:33 +0000

For our final project, we will explore the San Marcos Greenbelt. We plan highlight some of the best spots to escape in the outdoors of our very own backyard that students may not be aware of. With the use of video and other adobe applications, we will create an interactive website rich with our own content as well as content to be continually added by visitors to the site. The inspiration from our site comes from thisisyourland.nationalparks.org, a website created by the National Parks Foundation to raise awareness of our national parks.

Backstage: A Dancer’s Life

calebhudgens — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:25:44 +0000

Jill and I plan to capture the moments you don’t see in a dancer’s life. We want to see it from several different angles: from beginning dancers to those that have danced for decades. We think know there’s a story here. A dancer’s life is a struggle for beauty and perfection–we aim to show that.

Pages will either be categorized by the dance group, by the genre or by the parts of a dancer: Personal Life, Practice Life, Stage Life. The story will dictate the separation.

We are using lots of video mos def. Photos will be there too, probably in Flash. Also, I’m sure a map will appear somewhere. Suggestions?

Final Project – The Culture of Sewell Park: Where it’s Been and Where it’s Going

kinseyjunek — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:45:46 +0000

Jeremy and I will be exploring and documenting the culture of Sewell Park as well as it’s history and any plans Texas State has for its future.

We plan to look at the activities that go on at Sewell, including frisbee, laying out, floating the river, sand volleyball, The Outdoor Activity Center, and RiverFest which will take place on April 22, 2010.

We will include an interactive map of Sewell Park, pictures of the activities and video of RiverFest.

We will interview a member of SACA, an employee of the outdoor center and hopefully a band member performing at RiverFest.

The Quad

kennyfarah — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:05:40 +0000

Kenny Farah & Valerie Soja

We will be doing our project about the history and significance of the quad here at Texas State. Our site will include a home page, a video page with interviews, a history page with pictures and information, a contact page, a page about upcoming activities, a quiz or game made with flash.

Final project progress: Coffee Shop profile

ygnaciopat — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:39:43 +0000

Final Project- Patrick Ygnacio, Kinzey Patton

We are developing a profile Web site of locally owned coffee shops. Our site will include pages that will educate visitors on local coffee shops and what unique qualities they have to offer their customers.

Our home page will consist of a description of the site’s purpose and will likely include a slide show previewing the media that we will include throughout the site.

A “Signature Style” page will consist of a description of several coffee shops. Accompanying these descriptions will be a variety of Flash media: rollover media describing a large beer selection, slide shows of music performance.

We will also have a video page that will include testimonials and comments from either owners of the each coffee shops or customers that frequent them. We will ask questions about what distinguishes each shop from others in San Marcos.

A “Barista Faves” page will include Flash rollover photos that will profile staff members and their favorite drinks.

Finally, we will provide a map and links page that will have an embedded map of different coffee shops in San Marcos. Links to those shops not profiled throughout the site will be provided. This page will also include our contact information.

We aim to provide an informational yet fun site that will give visitors a good impression of the local coffee shop community and the type atmosphere that is found at each establishment.

Marijuana Law Reform

ramsayknox — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:27:07 +0000

Ramsay Knox and Anne Marie Herring

We plan on doing an informational site on marijuana and the laws associated with it. Our index page will have 4 links: a marijuana laws page, history of usage page, health and statistics page, and an interviews page.

On the index page, four images will serve as links for the different pages of the site. Beneath the images will be a twitter widget that will show tweets regarding marijuana laws along with some information on our site.

The laws page will provide the different marijuana laws for different areas of the country as well as recent changes in laws. We will try to incorporate charts in some way.

The history of usage page will go over the history of marijuana on a global scale and increase in laws over the years.

The health and statistics page will have facts about marijuana’s effect on the human body as well as statistics regarding its usage.

The interview page will have text and video of interviews with people associated with the marijuana laws in some way. (police, offenders, etc.)

Tisha and Sarah’s final Project: Deaf in San Marcos

lt1174 — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:15:51 +0000

1. index page: about deafness

2. deaf culture: interactive quiz

3. Day in the Life: Video

4. Community page: Slideshow

5. Resources page: links and information

Fred & Laura’s Final Project Ideas

lauracarhart — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:35:43 +0000

Fred and I are going to do our final project on the unusual and infamous characters of San Marcos.

Our index page will consist of a picture of some sort and brief introduction to our Web site.

The next page will consist of the biographies of the different people we plan on interviewing. So far, we have decided on 5 or 6 different people to interview. We really like the interviews that were done on the Being Web site and plan on modeling ours after theirs.We will also include a short bio on each.

Our third page will be all about catching our unusual characters in action – in their most true and natural form. We will include all applicable pictures and videos.

The fourth page will consist of a map of San Marcos with way points locating where you are most likely to find our unusual friends. We are thinking about making this part interactive and allowing people to add their own way points whenever they see an unusual sighting in San Marcos.

The contact page will be our fifth and last page. We will include our contact info as well as the Facebook and Twitter links to anyone featured (with permission, of course).

Online Business Revolution

jb1770 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:07:12 +0000

After reading Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, Free and watching Download: The True Story of the Internet I learned about the beginnings of revolutionary e-commerce now taking over many aspects of the economy. From the creation and user interface of Amazon to the never-before-seen takeover by Google, infinite storage space and recommendation based product awareness have completely transformed the standard economic model to almost mandate a free product to become profitable. A prime example of free content creating nearly overnight nationwide popularity, is the almost immediate burst of recommendation-based, Internet radio program Pandora. It started off as solely an Internet radio now it has applications for virtually every smartphone in existence helping it grow exponentially. The function of user-generated content, such as that on YouTube has changed everything completely to where the price of profitability is zero, as users completely drive the program with usage. I think the toughest issue online businesses will face in the future will be the clutter of very similar sites all vying for users, with the same content and services offered. However, the possibility for anyone to create a startup leaves endless possibilities for online business. It will be interesting to watch online business continue to grow and evolve.

The Future of the Web: Free!

kennyfarah — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:23:09 +0000

The main thing that I learned from Download: The True Story of the Internet is that the most successful companies on the web are the ones that understand the importance of focusing on the people who visit the site as opposed to the actual products being sold. This business model creates more traffic, and it is the reason why social networking, blogging, auction sites, and Youtube are so successful. These sites will continue to thrive simply because people want to be heard, or because they want to represent themselves directly to buyers and sellers.

Chris Anderson’s articles The Long Tail and Free both support the idea that the future of the internet will be based on ease of use, user-friendliness, accessibility, and low cost. The Long Tail explains the relationship of broadcasters and the taste of internet users. Free is about the revolution occurring in online business by companies offering things for free, not increasing their traffic and the users’ happiness, but getting customers to return to their site and purchase items in the future.