I finally took Daniel’s advice and layed this baby out in a graphics program. I’m pretty happy with how it’s coming together. Not too flashy, but not to boring.
What do ya’ll think?
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I started playing around with Google’s Adsense on CircaStudy yesterday.
It’s moderately confusing, I tried to have the ads generated dynamically according to the content of the page but that just gave me Hurricane Katrina ads. Maybe it takes awhile to learn the site, but for now I was able to limit the ads to Arts and Humanities which seem pretty relevant.
The image ads definitely seem out of place on the page and are pretty annoying, but the text ones are ok. I’m gunna think about adjusting so that they’re only text.
I checked today and I’ve already made $0.38. Which seems like nothing, but it’s actually quite exciting to get paid for something you’re not working on. I like how that feels.
We’ve only got 10 days left. What have you got to show? Can I get a status check from you big D?
Daniel asked me if I had put the layout in photoshop before I started coding it. I had not. I had only sketched it.
Now I’m wondering if he was trying to imply that it looks thoughtless. I’ve sort of chosen not to focus on the styling and layout of the pages as I’m just trying to get the thing as functional as possible. Which has been nice and I’ve kinda fallen in love with the serif/black&white look. But I doubt it’ll last.
I did discover that putting the thumbnails for a test at the top of the page rather than the bottom just works a lot better. Before the thumbnails were getting pushed down to different heights depending on the height of the enlargement.
I also like that you can see all your test slides right at the top when the page loads. I think the purpose of this studying page becomes less ambiguous when you see them displayed like that.
You’ve got to love the spin on this one.
An interesting example of information design. A visual explanation of where your income taxes go.
For some people homelessness is where all the injustice, misfortune, and mistakes of their life drain to. It’s the final resting place for these problems. It’s the result of these problems, and homelessness couldn’t exist apart from these ingredients.
- Mental Illness
- Substance Abuse
- No Affordable Housing
- Lack of Education
- Abuse and Violence
- Personal Tragedy
- Natural Disaster
- Living Outside Social and Cultural Standards
- Economic Depression
- Lack of Safety Net (Family, Friends, Neighbors, Community)
- Government Regulation
- Prejudice and Discrimination
I use to think of homelessness as it’s own separate social problem, but I’m beginning to realize that it’s really the organic clumping of various issues. Each dependent on the other.
