Advanced Web - 15 - Carroll's website doesn't work for web.

Oh man that is the tiniest navigation that I've ever seen. I'm surprised that a school that promotes mobile tools like alerts for campus closing and stuff doesn't have a website that works well with the web. It just barely works in landscape mode too. Hopefully this is something that they think of in the site revamp.

Advanced Web - 14 - Tumblr Mobile

Here's the mobiel Tumblr page for a fan blog that I run. The content fits nicely to the width of the of the screen and it's easily readable from here. It's interesting that the mobile version of the page works better than the Tumblr app which I still have to rant about because it's the worst app that I've ever had on my phone. It is a bit annoying to have to scroll to the bottom o the page to log out. I'd like to see the menus like on the app where you can swipe sideways and get a menu to come up instead of having to scroll, and scroll, and scroll, and then miss the button when the next page of content loads.

Advanced Web -13 - Mobile Yahoo

I usually think that Yahoo's stie looks like complete garbage but the mobile version looks pretty good. It does look like one of the older versions of Yahoo which is kind of common I notice that unlike our project which doesn't even think about scrolling down the page most mobile pages take advantage of that and it's sometimes necessary when your site is very content heavy.

Advanced Web - 12 - Apple for Mobile

It turns out that Apple doesn't really have a mobile version of their website but instead the website uses fluid first or something to resize to they dimension of the phone screen. It's a bit difficult to click the navigation buttons but everything still looks clean and transfers over to the phone well. It especially hi lights the center area where the product is changed.

Advanced Web - 11 - What the actual fuck Google?

I guess google's main site is simplistic enough that you can visit it from a phone and not have a problem but when I go to m.google.com this is what coems up. Not a mobile version of a website but a website promoting the google apps for iOS and Android that actually looks better than the actual Google website. I have no idea if they're just so proud of their roots that they're afraid to go this direction for the main site but I like this a lot better, although the simplicity is what Google is liked for. It's where you choose what kind of search you want to do and then type in a word and get those results. You're not being barraged by information like "news" "weather" or stuff you'll never use *cough*Yahoo*cough*. This is just some little weird page on the internet that I was surprised to come across.

Digital Video - 21 - How many countries are there?

I've already commentated on CGP Grey's videos but this is one of the most well animated ones with a lot of content that stress how ambiguous the answer to the hypothetical question that is stated at the beginning of the video is.

There are even really good cut aways like his stick figure self rubbing his eyes in frustration to one of the topics that he has to cover to make the video more complete.

Advanced Web - 10 - Mobile Twitter

It's becoming really apparent that the mobiel versions of the website always draw from the style that the website had when it was first created. I don't see as much of these ugly yellows mixed with the bright cyan as much in the current design. Every time I see a mobile version of a website I end up thinking "wow this looks like it came from 2009"

Something I'll have to think about when creating my mobile site is to keep it looking streamline and modern instead of pushing the oldest form of the site into a mobile resolution.

Advanced Web - 9 - Mobile Facebook

We're going to start woking on mobile sites so I decided to access the mobile version of facebook from safari on the imac. On a totally unrelated note seeing a website designed to be like 300x400 at a resolution of 2500x1400 is just ridiculous.

Mobile sites do stay true to their originals while still simplifying. It's importnat to see the branding elements like the facebook blue and the fonts. There are also little elements taken from the original log in screen on the site.

Digital Video - 20 -Khan Academy

I had to use Khan Academy in my transitional algebra course for learning some sort of algebra and his videos are pretty interesting and do a good job of explaining concepts.
The typical video a marker like look being written on a solid black document page obviously done with a tablet pen. This is another example of education set videos and they're actually really useful for expanding the knowledge of our people because now people can look to free projects like this one that try to teach just for the sake of bettering and helping everyone. 
Now it seems that most of these are done in a single take so obviously he takes a lot of time to plan out the lessons ahead of time and with the only visual being on the writing area itself he can actually have notes and stuff off to the side to remind him of what he wants to talk about. 

Digital Video - 19 - Wrong software for the job

I want to take a moment to talk about different type of video editing software because while going through my subscriptions on Youtube I came across one of the LPers that i used to follow every update but have slowly backed away as their content no longer matched my interests.

Something I do remember about his though i that all of his LPs so far were edited in Windows Movie Maker which I didn't even know was possible because it lacks common tools like a razor tool or multiple tracks to get in depth with. Somehow he managed to end the clips at the times he needed to and make the cuts to a different shot.

I think we kind of take for granted what we can do with the tools were given but we also need to learn to use the tools very effectively because if not then we might as well be using Windows Movie Maker or iMovie