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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home <https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home>
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> On 17 June 2015 at 15:08, Mark <mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:
> I learned everything I know about web design from Warner Brothers.
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> It's got frames and everything!
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> http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm <http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm>
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> I suggest you give it to your web design students as a salutary example.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 17 June 2015 at 14:29, Mark <mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:
> On 17 June 2015 at 14:09, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au <mailto: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
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home <https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home>
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> On 17 June 2015 at 08:51, Mark <mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:
> I should have explained that the post was relevant to ITA because of design principles.  :-)
> 
> On 17 June 2015 at 08:49, Mark <mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>> 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.
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> http://www.wired.com/2015/06/jeb-bush-logo-jeb/ <http://www.wired.com/2015/06/jeb-bush-logo-jeb/>
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> What's so wrong with the <BLINK> tag? Bring it back in HTML6.
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