7 Responsive Design Tips to Revamp Your Workflow | Mashable
Tips discussed include:
There is a bonus highlighting 20 Stunning Responsive WordPress Themes.
23 Mobile Things: Join the Australian / New Zealand Course « Tame The Web
Excerpt below from Tame the Web | http://tametheweb.com/2013/05/01/23-mobile-things-join-the-australian-new-zealand-course/
What are the 23 Mobile Things?
You can view the 23 Mobile Things on the official blog here –http://23mobilethings.net/wpress/the-things/
What is this NZ/Australian cohort all about?
simple; it is just establishing a group of librarians in NZ and Australia who are keen to do the 23 Mobile Things at the same time. This cohort will give us mutual support and contact with each other so that we can learn together and keep each other motivated. Hopefully it will help you grow your own personal learning network (PLN) and have fun and great collaborations throughout the course!
One of the best ways to gauge your website’s effectiveness, performance, and customer satisfaction can be found right inside the measurements that analytics reveal:
via Know your users: Web analytics tools | TechRepublic. The article reviews Google Analytics and Crazy Egg.
Also recommended is Andrew Maier’s Complete Beginner’s Guide to Analytics. It is a few years old though.
Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launching within “the coming months” and is meant to “empower creative professionals to create cutting-edge advertising as well as engaging web content like sites and applications – for free.”
Google’s only service for creating websites right now is Google Sites, which allows you to easily create basic sites and wikis from pre-built templates. That product has lingered without any meaningful updates for a while now, so maybe Web Designer will be a more sophisticated replacement for Sites’ editor.
Whether or not your child grows up to be the next Zuckerberg, programming is a highly useful skill for him or her to learn. It teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus, it can be downright fun for you both. Here are some of the best tried-and-true apps for teaching kids of all ages how to code.
via How and Why to Teach Your Kids to Code | LifeHacker
Apps discussed cover from the very young to older learners and include:
You may also like:
Collection of Links: Resources for Learning to Code | The Modern MLIS
Build a Digital Family Tree With These 5 Tools | Mashable
The article reviews:
There is also a tool called Family Echo, which is free but very basic and another one called MyHeritage, also free but with more features including sharing and a collaborative tool called Geni.
Top 5 Sites for Online Learning | Information Space
The 5 sites discussed are:
Online Personal Libraries and Book Social Media Sites | Dear Author
Reviews:
The Internet Archive is a massive, ambitious effort to digitize the full spectrum of human knowledge. A documentary from Deepspeed Media goes inside the archive to reveal what that looks like in practice. See the full article here: Inside the Internet Archive’s Real-World Home | Mashable.
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