[Year 12 IT Apps] Jeb - bad president or bad font? help

Mon Aug 17 11:57:49 AEST 2015

Control keys? Luxury!

On my Commodore 64 word processor (Paperclip), we had to type the equivalent of tags to set bold, italics, underline, then print it off on an Oki printer – the type with the wax tapes. Many a teacher hated that printer I’m sure…

No such niceties as print preview, at least until Geos came out and I used that instead.

Michael Walker,
Doncaster Secondary College.

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Monday, 17 August 2015 10:25 AM
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Back off .. control K Z beats your function keys and constant sneak peek at print preview. lol

Seriously though, many years ago I had some fun with text files with a group of students, explaining to them that the control Z was how the computer system closed a file. I forgot how but we made some test files and examined them with an editor. We learned that this was how the computer knew precisely where the file had ended and the dragons fare in the lands beyond (and password fragments as all good hackers know). OK, now I am well off topic. Sorry everybody.

Regards Roland

On 17 Aug 2015, at 10:09 am, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au<mailto:08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:

I'm afraid Wordstar was just before my time. WordPerfect 5.1 roolz!

Laurie

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 17 August 2015 at 09:44, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> wrote:
I still somewhere my membership certificate for the Wordstar Appreciation Society of Western Australia. Who needs fonts ;-)

On 17 Aug 2015, at 8:41 am, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au<mailto:08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:

Ah, the wonders of Lynx, Mutt, Fetchmail and configuring Sendmail. Oh frabjous day, calloo, callay he chortled in his joy.

To be honest, I don't miss any of them ... except Mutt, arcane, fast and brilliant.

Laurie

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 15 August 2015 at 13:50, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com<mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> wrote:
Did somebody say IE 6 emulator? http://netrenderer.com/, this German error screen brings back memories. What could be more retro than looking at the future with IE6 glasses.

How about Lynx, an original that I used in the early 1990’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

Regards Roland

On 17 Jun 2015, at 9:04 pm, Mark > wrote:

Use Comic Sans for body text.
Use frames.
Animated GIFs rule.
CSS is a passing fad. Ignore it.
Stick with HTML 1.0 for compatibility with Internet Explorer 6.

That's all they need to know. All the rest is practice.
Hope that helps, Nagla.

Mark

On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Mekail, Nagla N <mekail.nagla.n at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:mekail.nagla.n at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Hi all,

I am really need help, I have a “webpage authoring” Y9 class as first time teaching it and I have no idea what I should teach them, anything will help.

Thanks,
Nagla

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2015 8:41 PM
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But sir, he made fun of my typeface.  Sob...

On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
Here here, settle down everybody. Close that frame and put down that font before somebody gets seriously hurt.

I had too much fun with the “Websites that Suck” website .. design hell to teach good design skills. The author slipped into retirement and obscurity .. :-(

Here are some real clients from hell .. good share with your students:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jobarrow/sorry-did-you-actually-want-comic-sans

—
Roland GESTHUIZEN
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

On 17 Jun 2015, at 3:23 pm, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

I promise not to show this to my year 9 Systems class, They'd love it too much. I still have a teacher who insists on building sites with frames and Flash.

Laurie Savage
home | mr savage<https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home>

On 17 June 2015 at 15:08, Mark wrote:
I learned everything I know about web design from Warner Brothers.

It's got frames and everything!

http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

I suggest you give it to your web design students as a salutary example.

Mark

On 17 June 2015 at 14:29, Mark wrote:
On 17 June 2015 at 14:09, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
While we're talking about bad fonts ... you're not considering running for president are you? ^____^

I could do. I have a cognitive disability when it comes to design, as anyone who has been to vceit.com<http://vceit.com/> can attest.
Some people are tone deaf. I'm design deaf.

Anyway - what's wrong with the Angry Birds font??
Will you be telling me next that you don't like using delightfully whimsical Comic Sans for body text on webpages and in emails?

Philistine!

Laurie Savage
home | mr savage<https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home>

On 17 June 2015 at 08:51, Mark wrote:
I should have explained that the post was relevant to ITA because of design principles. :-)

On 17 June 2015 at 08:49, Mark wrote:
Sometimes fellow-tech people make me squirm in discomfort.

The U.S. is facing another possible silly season with another Bush in charge, and the tech writers are angry about the typography on his logo.  It's good to see they know where their priorities lie.

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/jeb-bush-logo-jeb/

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