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= Natalie Colón = Website: http://students.philau.edu/colon9030 Email: colon611@gmail.com; colonnat@email.chop.edu

= ABOUT ME  = I've worked in the realm of research governmental grants and contracts for about 8 years doing business management and finance work. I recently accepted a position as an Analyst/Programmer in a Research IS department as a result of my latest IT interests. I've worked mainly at for profit and non profit healthcare companies and I'm part of the M.S. in IDT track at Phila U focusing on Systems Integration.

**//Goals For This Course://**
I'd like to be able to recognize what code is doing and spot problems areas in "bad" code. Develop a healthy repertoire of knowledge and resources to pull from and have fun with it.

**//Design Statement://**
Good design should always consider the user by being compliant, reasonable, functional, balanced, and simple. It should strike a balance and never compromise usability or functionality for extremes in color, graphics, text, content, and/or bells and whistles. Great design is all encompassing. It should have a life cycle that represents not only the result that it produces but what methodology was chosen to get there and why. Although instances of design can be similar, they are not necessarily the same. Therefore each design instance should have the capacity to be completely unique.

= ASSIGNMENTS =

My final web design project is an online portfolio website: http://students.philau.edu/colon9030/

Here are the website resources: [|www.helraldy-clipart.com] I got the coat of arms image from doing a google image search for "coat of arms". The original image was a greyscale GIF named shield47

http://www.web-site-tools.com/colors.htm A great HTML color helper

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/category/photoshop-tutorial/ I was able to do my monogram through a Photoshop tutorial

http://www.cssbloom.net/categories/portfolio/ For ideas and inspiration I checked out

Assignment 3: Video Tutorials
Adobe Dreamweaver: Building Layouts http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1592v1757

Adobe Photoshop: Using layers & masking http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1584v1012

Adobe Photoshop: Advanced Masking (if you have the attention span) http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f1511v1727

Assignment 1: Website Design
Website Designs I Like (just for "Look & Feel"): Design Note: The Yang to Google's Yin. || Design Note: I like the slight use of color & Flash pane on homepage || Design Note: I like the spacious feel and whitespace || Design Note: I like the simple setup and ease of use || Design Note: A good way to organize a large amount of content - consistently || Design Note: I like the color pallette (or lack thereof) || Design Note: I like that the whole screen stays in place - no scrolling needed || Design Note: You can find what you are looking for easily based on blocking layout || Design Note: I like the color pallette (or lack thereof) || Design Note: Nice and simple ||
 * http://www.cuil.com/
 * http://www.xerox.com/
 * http://www.apple.com/
 * http://www.alistapart.com/
 * http://www.w3schools.com/
 * http://www.serato.com/
 * http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/index.html (just this one section of the site)
 * http://www.windowsmedia.com/Mediaguide/Radio**
 * http://www.geminidj.com/
 * http://www.calendardate.com/