5by5 - The Web Ahead #33: Back to Basics with Jen Robbins
The web at it’s basics is HTML and CSS. If you want to learn these fundamentals, where do you start? Jen Robbins joins Jen Simmons to lay out a road map.
Jennifer Robbins has been a Web designer since 1993. She designed the web’s first commercial site, O’Reilly’s Global Network Navigator (GNN).
5by5 - The Web Ahead #38: Game Console Browsers with Anna Debenham
People are accessing the web from all kinds of devices these days, and will be from many more in the future. Anna Debenham joins Jen Simmons to talk about game consoles, both portable games and consoles that go with a television set, and the browsers they run. How might you want to adjust your website to work on these devices?
Anna Debenham is a freelance front-end developer living in Brighton in the UK. She specializes in sites and web apps used in the education sector.
Resources: Testing Websites in Game Console Browsers (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/testing-websites-in-game-console-browsers/)
The Web Behind: Episode Three with Dave Shea
Dave Shea joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons for the third episode of in The Web Behind series. They talk about the CSS Zen Garden, a website Dave created in 2003 which showed the world how radically-different designs could be with just CSS. Dave also reflects on the origins and lasting effects of the CSS Sprites technique he introduced to the world, and reminisces about the web design community of a decade ago.
Dave Shea is a Canadian[1] web designer and co-author of The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web. He is known for his work in web-standard development—from his design community project CSS Zen Garden to his active contributions at the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Shea is also a writer “for a large global audience of web designers and developers on his popular weblog, "Mezzoblue" and is the founder and creative director of Bright Creative in Vancouver, BC.
The Web Behind: Episode Two with Steven Champeon
In this second episode of The Web Behind series with Eric Meyer, guest Steven Champeon talks about predecessors to HTML, the webdesign-L online community, the birth of the web standards project, how he coined the term "progressive enhancement" and much more.
Steven Champeon pioneered the markup best practice of Progressive Enhancement that has been embraced by the web industry and adopted by organizations such as Microsoft, Yahoo!, and America Online. Steve is also the founder of the webdesign-L online community, founded in 1997 and 2300+ members strong. Champeon’s widely respected status as a "web guru" is evidenced by his impressive list of publications and speaking engagements. Champeon is a contributor to Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition, Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content From Presentation, now in its second edition, as well as the author of the groundbreaking Building Dynamic HTML GUIs.
The Web Behind: Episode One with John Allsopp
John Allsopp joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons for this first episode in our “web behind” series — a look back at where the web came from and the people who created it. They talk about early web design tools, community groups that shaped the web, thinkers from the mid-20th century who shaped ideas about hypertext, and much more.
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, John Allsopp by himself has seen and done more on the web than most web teams put together. First encountering the web in the early 1990s, he built one of the very first CSS tools, Style Master, and a number of other web development tools; published a wealth of information like support charts and free courses; wrote the deeply insightful and far-seeing article “A Dao of Web Design”; influenced the course of the Web Standards Project; and founded a successful international conference series that continues to this day.
5by5 - The Web Ahead #4: Pat Aufderheide on Fair Use & Copyright • October 7, 2011 at 5:00pm
Pat Audferheide joins Jen Simmons to explain fair use and when you can use other people’s copyrighted material in your work.
Special guest Patricia Aufderheide. (http://5by5.tv/person/patricia-aufderheide)
Episode Links:
Patricia Aufderheide’s bio at American University (http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/paufder.cfm)
Center for Social Media (http://centerforsocialmedia.org/)
Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi (https://www.facebook.com/ReclaimingFairUse)
Fair use – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated – Home (http://www.chaincamera.com/thisfilmisnotyetrated/)
Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck (http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2010/right-wing-radio-duck-donald-discovers-glenn-beck)
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video | Center for Social Media (http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-online-video)
Uncensored – The Wedding Banners – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 05/03/11 – Video Clip | Comedy Central (http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-3-2011/exclusive---the-wedding-banners-uncensored)
RIP: A Remix Manifesto (http://ripremix.com/)