Designing for Web 2.0

DMS 516 - Summer 2009
"J" Session - May 18 - June 26
M, W 6:00-9:40 pm
Registration number: 168783
Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Al Larsen (alarsen [at] buffalo.edu)

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WIKIPEDIA

• An Artist's Guide for Editing Wikipedia
  • discusses avoiding conflicts of interest, establishing notability, etc.

SOFTWARE TOOLS

• Smultron
  • text editor/coding window for Mac OSX
• Fugu
  • file-transfer client for Mac OS X. Supports SFTP
• MAMP
  • for creating a local server test environment on Mac
  • MAMP download at Sourceforge.net

SOFTWARE PLATFORMS

• Wordpress
  • open source blog publishing platform
  • Wordpress page on managing plugins
  • Wordpress page on using themes
  • tutorial on installing Wordpress using MAMP
  • another tutorial on installing Wordpress using MAMP


• MediaWiki
  • popular wiki software
  • customizing
  • mediaWiki - changing logo path in local settings file


• Joomla!
  • content management system
  • examples of sites using Joomla!
  • Learning Joomla! using Sample Data
  • inroduction to Joomla templates


• Drupal
  • content management system
  • tutorial on installing Drupal w/ MAMP

WEB DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES

• HTML Validator
• CSS Validator
• CSS Zen Garden
• HTML Dog - tutorials
• W3 Schools - HTML And CSS tutorials
• how to register a domain using godaddy (video)

MASHUPS

Programmable Web - Mashups

Eclipse by EcoArtTech
Eclipse is a user driven, networked-art application that alters and corrupts United States national and state park images from Flickr.com based on the real-time Air Quality Index (particle pollution data) provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) at the site www.airnow.gov.

PRIVACY AND DATA-MINING