Web Designer’s Toolbox
I gave this presentation at the Sacramento Web Standards group in July of 2011. I can’t say it is the best presentation I have ever given, but it is kind of fun to look at different tools that web...
View ArticlePortfolio 1
In this course students at Art Institute begin developing their personal portfolio sites. The focus is on developing the branding and related materials such as business cards, resumes and the site...
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Portfolio 2 is the capstone course for students graduating from the Bachelors Degree program at Art Institute. This is where everything comes together and culminates with a show for professionals in...
View ArticleSenior Project Development
This is a course where students develop and deploy a project for a real client. The training wheels come off and they get to put into practice all the bits and pieces that have been accumulating over...
View ArticleIntermediate Web Design
Another one of my favorite courses to teach. This is where students delve into some of the deeper topics of web design and techniques used all across the web today. We get into CSS3, progressive...
View ArticleWeb Professionals Speaker Series
Summer 2011 has brought some exciting speakers to Art Institute in Sacramento. Each week, for four weeks, I have scheduled great speakers to come in and talk about topics of interest to anyone who is...
View ArticleArt Institute Portfolio Show
Art Institute of California in Sacramento will be celebrating it’s graduates at the upcoming portfolio show on September 22nd, 2011. I am really excited about this particular group of graduates. Some...
View ArticleForm Validation Part 1
Ok, there is nothing more boring than forms. But it is really important for us as web designers and developers to know how to capture information put into forms, validate it on both the server side for...
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Part 2 of our series on form validation brings us into jQuery. The starter files basically include a very slightly modified version of the form that was created in part 1. This version is interesting...
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Part 3 of our form validation series gets into using AJAX to submit form data without having to refresh the web page. This is really nice for web applications where you want to have more control over...
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Designing for Students
This fall, I decided it was high time to redesign lessons for my Intermediate Web Design class at Art Institute. Some of these same designs can be used with my classes at UC Davis as well. Although I...
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WordCamp Sacramento 2016
It has been almost two weeks since we wrapped up our second WordCamp Sacramento conference, and I am still thinking about it and basking in warmth of an awesome WordPress community here in Sacramento....
View ArticleGuide To Large Background Images
This is a lesson I have been meaning to put together for a while, and when I completed it last weekend, I was really pleased with it and excited about trying it with students last week. It is clear in...
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Under Construction at Axis Gallery
For the month of March, 2017, I am participating in a group show at Axis Gallery. I joined this collective with two other artists, Nick Shepard and Ben Hunt at the beginning of this year. The three of...
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Student Work – Gym Website
This project, created by my student, Marco Vasquez, is from a few years ago, but it remains in my list of favorites. In the Intermediate Web Design class at Art Institute, students dig further into...
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Student Work – Restaurant Website
One of the projects I have done in the Design for Mobile course I teach is to have students design and build responsive restaurant websites. Responsive design has been around since 2010, and really...
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Student Work – Music Streaming Website
This is another great example from one of my Intermediate Web Design sections by Juan Sarmiento. I have been teaching this course for a long time and it has evolved a lot over the years. In the early...
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Student Work – Microinteractions
In the summer of 2016 I taught a course on interaction design with an exceptional group of students who were really hungry to dig deeper into JavaScript and the kinds of interactions that can be...
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Student Work – Mobile App Prototype
Prototyping tools have really hit their stride in the past few years. InvisionApp along with Sketch have been favorites for designers for a while now, but there is a lot of development in this area...
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Sacramento Addys 2018
On Friday, March 9th 2018 the Sacramento Advertising Club hosted a Galla event to celebrate and award local winning entries to the national American Advertising Federation’s annual Addys competition....
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