• Top Ten Tips for Incredibly Successful Public Speaking — David Meerman Scott
  • an excellent and brief run-down of some of the most essential tips for preparing and delivering a presentation
• 10 Key Presentation Techniques — Alex Hunter
  • a good quick reminder of key presentation tips
• Make Yourself Presentable — Jason Santa Maria
  • Helpful reflections on slide development and speech preparation, from a recognized designer and conference presenter.

More In-Depth Online Articles

• Training the Butterflies: Interview with Scott Berkun — A List Apart

Video

• Scott Berkun, "Why and How to Give an Ignite Talk" (6min 25sec)
• Collis Ta-eed, Ignite Talk: "Fast and Furious Startups" (5min 13sec)
  • Observe the simple, beautiful slides in this talk by Collis Ta-eed, web entrepreneur
• Scott Berkun at Google Headquarters — with YouTube Video (48min)

Book Recommendations

• Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker (2009)

YouTube Promo for Berkun’s Book

• I like to eat cheese pizza while watching television
• Malcolm looks very angry in this photograph
• Sometimes when you are a man you wear stretchy pants in your room
• What kind of a last name is X?
• Last line of test text

Martin Luther King Jr.

• First line of test text
• Second line of test text
• Fourth line of test text
• That was actually the third line of test text
• Final line of test text

Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor

• First line of test text
• Second line of test text
• Third line of test text
• Fourth line of test text
• Fifth line of test text

h3 Web Design & Development

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Utilizing the resources linked on our Career Page:

1. Using a job search tool, find 3-5 job advertisements that interest you.
2. Using the Occupational Outlook Handbook, identify at least two job categories (possible career paths) that interest you.

Come prepared to report and discuss these verbally in class.

In two-three sentences (average), answer:

1. When would a flexible rounded-corner be useful? What additional image slices does this require?
2. How do mountaintop corners work?
3. How does the Easy CSS Drop Shadows method work?
4. Why is image replacement a useful method — for designers? for users?
5. Why is the Giler/Levin image replacement method superior to the Fahrner and Phark methods?
6. What is Inman Flash Replacement? What is the downside of flash replacement?

Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch

1. Load files into “@ Photos 0809” folder, inside an appropriate sub-folder, suitably named to enable others to identify what it contains.
2. Rename photos using the yearbook naming scheme.

Highlight the Best, Delete the Worst

1. Highlight the best photos in Green, and second best in Blue.
2. Any photos that are unusable, delete them.
3. Leave the others unmarked.

Copy Desired Images to your Spread Folder

1. Before building your spread, you want to copy your desired images to an images folder inside your spread folder. This will ensure that we keep the spread and its images together as a unit.
2. Create a folder for your spread, appropriately named according to Holly’s instructions.
3. Place your InDesign template file directly inside your spread folder.
4. Create an images folder inside your spread folder.
5. Using Finder, Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste your desired images into the images folder.

Edit the Images AS A PHOTOSHOP FILE

1. Ensure that your images are large files, usually at least 500 KB or larger.
2. Open in Photoshop.
3. Immediately SAVE AS a photoshop file.
4. If the image has a color cast, correct it using Image / Adjustments / Variations.
5. Adjust contrast and brightness using Image / Adjustments / Levels.
6. Crop the image using the crop tool.
7. Correct red-eye, using the color replacement tool.
8. Do any necessary or desired healing, touch-up.
9. OPTIONAL: Adjust color and tone in specific areas of image to bring out highlights, midtones, shadows, and desaturated colors.
10. Sharpen the image, using Filter / Sharpen / Unsharp mask.
    • Adjust the three sliders so that it looks best—clear and sharp on the page.
    • Amount: usually between 150 to 250%
    • Radius: usually between 1.2 to 2
    • Threshold: usually between 5 to 10
    • NOTE: You’ll get the best sense for a printed version if you have the zoom set to approximately 25%.
    • NOTE: Best zoom settings for preview are: 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%. DO NOT zoom to 33%, 67%, 133%, etc. —these do not allow you to preview how it will actually look.
11. After you have edited, using Finder, set the file color to ORANGE.

From your reading of Simon Collison, Beginning CSS Web Development.

Bring your HANDWRITTEN answers to the following questions. Your answers should typically be 1-3 sentences in length. The document should be handwritten, single-spaced, with the following at the top of the first page:

Your Name
Reading Notes: Intro & Ch 1
IntroWeb
Sept. 2, 2008

Questions from the Introduction

NOTE: You do not need to write the questions. Instead, write your answers as full sentences so that you may review these notes later in preparation for the quizzes. (In other words, include the basic information from the question in the sentence of your answer, such as: “The World Wide Web Consortium was formed for the purpose of …”)

1. Why was the World Wide Web Consortium formed? What is its URL?
2. What did Jeffrey Zeldman’s book do? What year was it published?
3. What are five benefits that web standards bring?
4. What does it mean to “separate content from presentation”?
5. What does (X)HTML refer to?

Questions from Chapter 1

1. Write an example of a tag with inline style code. What is a strength of this approach? A major weakness?
2. Where do you place embedded style code? What is a strength of this approach? A major weakness?
3. Where do you place external style code? What are three strengths of this approach?
4. What is an imported stylesheet? What is one advantage it offers?
5. What is: a print stylesheet? And a handheld stylesheet?
6. What method does Collison recommend for keeping your stylesheets organized?
7. What is the point of creating a stylesheet for various modules of your website? What is an example of a “module”?
8. Write an example of a css rule with proper syntax, including: a selector with at least TWO declarations (each with a property and a value), all with appropriate brackets and punctuation.
9. Write an example of a css comment.
10. Write out an example of a good way to flag a specific set of rules.
11. What is a good way to add visual clarity to your CSS code?