Airtight Interactive - Jason Melcher

Earlier in class I mentioned a website that provides a variety of flash-based image galleries. As much fun at is to build them from scratch, it's not very efficient when you have multiple galleries on your website. I've been using Airtight's Simpleviewer and Autoviewer with a certain degree of success over the course of the semester. Once you download the script, you can build the galleries automatically in photoshop and customize as you see fit. They also just released Simpleviewer 2.0 and it looks very clean and professional--best of all, it is free.

http://www.airtightinteractive.com/
http://www.simpleviewer.net/news/?p=66

Upload higher quality video with Youtube alternatives - Ryan Gagnon

Post higher quality video with alternative video uploading websites:

As a film student here at Temple, it is frustrating to use popular websites like Youtube to store video because of the terrible compression rate of the video. If you want your media to look clear and professional on your website, try using alternative sites to upload that video that don't compress so much. Here are two great alternatives with which you can host video. Check out the sample video to see how clear it is.

http://www.blip.tv

http://www.vimeo.com

BIRDY NAM NAM - THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo.

Google Reader // RSS - Zander Taketomo

Blogs seem to be getting more and more personal by the day, and it's at the point where the number of them is a bit much to follow. This will mainly benefit gmail users (as they visit google more often,) but really anybody who would like to skip the step of separately visiting each blog, and seeing just updated posts all from one place.

Google Reader tracks updates and puts them all before you in one place.

LINK

Viral Video - Zander Taketomo

I was linked to this video the other day, and realized how well it could have worked for a viral video. The subject matter is extremely interchangeable and definitely has opportunity for expansion.

Looks better in"24p."

Successful 'blogger' blog - Zander Taketomo

I've been visiting this blog for a while just to see clean/casual fashion photography. It's a good example for how professional consistency can look even if one is working from a template. Also, how frequent updates = frequent visitors.

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/

Helpful videos - Jeff McReynolds

I know it sounds a little cliche but google/youtube have been once of the most helpful things for this class. One the first day of class I was really worried because it seemed like almost everyone had some experience with the programs we were going to be using and I hadn't even heard of Dreamweaver. Whenever I would run into problems I would type in "how to___(whatever i was looking to do)____in dreamweaver" and almost every time there was something helpful. I'd say the most helpful ones had to deal with shadowbox. (http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Use-Shadow-Boxes---Dreamweaver-165849462) This one ended up saving me so much time.

Photoshop tutorials- Jeff McReynolds

http://www.designshard.com/video-tutorials/11-great-photoshop-photo-effects-tutorials/

I "stumbled upon" this right when we started to get into css and I thought it was really cool but I didn't have the time to try and make something like it. It turns out I still don't have the time but it still looks really cool. I can't promise that will be helpful but they seem to go through all of the steps of how to go about taking advantage of photoshop's tools

www.wix.com - Jordan Schindler

wix is a free website host that doesn't run on css, and is far less complicated then using dreamweaver. for those of you who are looking to make a fun website in half the time, wix is definitely a great place. you sign up, and you pretty much get launched into a website editor. the entire website is flash, they allow you to upload things like video, music, and pictures. you can set up buttons to get from page to page, link pages together, give them special behaviors. it comes stocked with a music player gallery and even light box gallery. it is actually a lot of fun, and kind of addictive. check out my work in progress site for rock way.

www.wix.com/jordanross/rock-way

The Graphic Designer's Guide to Twitter - Jordan Schindler

http://www.examiner.com/x-5730-SF-Graphic-Design-and-Branding-Examiner~y2009m4d6-Graphic-designers-guide-to-Twitter-Hwwow-to-get-Twitter-followers-increase-traffic--get-clients

I found this interview really interesting. It pretty much sits down with a bunch of different graphic designers and they give tips on how to attract more followers to your a social networking site such as Twitter. They give advice in regards to design of your Twitter and what you put up there. Hope you guys found it as interesting as I did.

Lady GaGa hits the viral world - Jordan Schindler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tZG5j1nGsA

I just thought this was a really hilarious example of remix and mashup, and it is a big viral video

that is floating around the Internet right now, that combines, Lady GaGa's Poker Face, and

different renditions by Cartman from South Park and Christopher Walken. Check it out, it's

pretty funny.