This is a research-based course, that takes place in Periods 1 and 2. The research is important and will have real consequences. Arcada currently uses version 8 of Blackboard as its learning management system. This is coming to the end of its life. This course will play a major part in determining what happens next…

Someone somewhere has created a button generator, to make png files that you can use as buttons. It contains nothing that you could not do yourself in Photoshop in ten minutes, but since it consists entirely of sliders and fields then (in some circumstances) it might prove easier.

A link to two sites that allow you to specify a base colour, and then suggest a range of colours to use with it.

I found an article online that detailed how Kevin Potts invented, designed, tested and marketed a new product in less than twenty four hours, for an outlay of $150. I found it on his site Make Money Online. The product is called the Magic Article Creator, and you can follow all the steps he took in the article.

There are a number of different sites offering music and sounds that are made available under a Creative Commons licence. Here is a list of useful links.

All this site is is a page of text about the benefits of properly applied css, with a set of different stylesheets that you can apply yourself. But it is wonderful (and wonderfully useful).

Today I rediscovered the CSSplay site by Stu Nicholls, a man who seems to have spent every waking hour for most of the last decade solving the most arcane cross-browser problems imaginable in css menus. A look at the front page of his site, though, reveals that this is only the tip of a very interesting iceberg.

If you want to have a fixed width web space that always sits in the center of the screen no mater how wide the window is then this is the simplest way of doing it.

Custom scroll bars work in IE but not Firefox. However, it is possible to use javascript to overrule Firefox and force scrollbar changes.

There are many different css-based menu systems available. Here are some I have found useful.

Cascading style sheets come in version 1 and version 2. All modern browsers should work with CSS 1.0, but there is still not widespread support for CSS 2.0.

It is almost impossible to design web pages properly without an understanding of the basis of CSS. Here are a collection of useful links, including a link to the box model; a link to a list of al the css keywords; and a list of 53 key techniques with examples and explanations.

I have had a problem with my menus suddenly disappearing behind a new div that I created. It took longer than it should to fix the problem which is to do with a bug in the way that IE6/IE7 deal with the cumulative effects of declaring a z-pos for elements.