Author Archives: Vernon

About Vernon

An outdoorsy type, I enjoy many things in life, movies, food, music, travel, coffee, a few books, great people and excellent friends.

I want my MP3

A review of the Last.fm service I had already set up an account with Last.fm but haven’t really used it much for some time. My profile at last.fm/user/vfowler seems almost a complete record of my music tastes thanks to using … Continue reading

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Music Media in Young People’s Everyday Lives

How is music interlaced with our everyday lives in general? What has been the impact of the Internet in the way music is used by young people privately and publicly (and the way this intermingles)? 1. Since the 30s, music … Continue reading

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The changing place of media in everyday life

What is the difference between the media environment of the past and now? In the past, people gathered together around a radio or queued up for the cinema to watch and listen to programmes at scheduled times. The media controlled … Continue reading

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Learning HTML5

Group HTML5 development’s best content Inspired by a sneak preview of HTML5 and Jeremy Keith’s new book HTML5 for web designers, one might be keen to dive into HTML5. However, heed caution though as the browsers get ready for both … Continue reading

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new features on freetrappers.org.au

I am pleased to announce that we now have a gallery on the Southern Cross Free Trappers website. It can be accessed directly via http://freetrappers.org.au/gallery/ or visitors can simply click the new 5th menu link, aptly titled ‘Gallery’. In order … Continue reading

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site redesign

Last weekend, after much sweat and beers, we launched the new design for Steve Curtain’s eucalyptproductions.com website. What stemmed from my NED12 assignment was 10 problems and solutions to the original construction – I don’t think we can call the … Continue reading

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CSS Zen Camp

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. I’m excited to introduce my CSS Zen Garden. As well as completing this assignment for my university studies, I also intend to port some elements of the … Continue reading

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Illusion of spatial depth

In general, there are two possibilities when designing on a two-dimensional surface: you can keep it flat, or you can create the illusion of three dimensional space or spatial depth. The illusion of spatial depth can be shallow or deep, … Continue reading

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Positive and negative space

In a successful positive/negative relationship in graphic design, the positive and negative space is interdependent. You are forced to consider the whole space of your design if you consider all space as active forces (Landa 2006). Note how the web … Continue reading

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Visual hierarchy and focal points

Visual Hierarchy the arrangement of elements according to importance and emphasis. The question “What is the message?” needs to be answered before knowing which text and graphics should be emphasised. Things to keep in mind when trying to design a … Continue reading

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