We visited the Newsgator site in class today, and I didn’t notice that on Tuesday of this week, they announced that they were now offering all of their individual desktop applications free! Apparently too much competition has made them choose this route. I highly recommend that each of you try out desktop content aggregator’s on your home systems. The excellent NetNewsWire for Mac (a product I have been using for several years), and FeedDemon for Windows are now FREE products for you to download at http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/Default.aspx

Enjoy!

I mentioned that WordPress folk have created forum software called “bbpress”. If you are interested in using it you will have to download it and serve it on your own server as there is not a multiuser version at this point. I think there are examples on the bbpress site (http://bbpress.org).

If anyone in the class would like to try it out, you are welcome to use the one I have on my server, which I really haven’t used yet. It it located at: http://www.elearningdesign.us/forum

If you do use it, please email me and let me know because I am not actively checking it unless I know someone is using it.

Intermediate Scripting is about deepening our skills in CSS or the presentation aspects of web design. We will work with a core content that focuses on developing skills in understanding layout design with CSS, integrating imagry with type, as well as separating structure from presentation. The introduction of microformats as well as RSS scripting for your web project will also be included in the course.