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

Mark mark at vceit.com
Wed Jun 17 21:04:22 AEST 2015 

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> wrote:

>  Hi all,
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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> Nagla
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> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 June 2015 8:41 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Jeb - bad president or bad font?
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> But sir, he made fun of my typeface.  Sob...
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> On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rgesthuizen at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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> Here here, settle down everybody. Close that frame and put down that font
> before somebody gets seriously hurt.
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> 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
> .. :-(
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> Here are some real clients from hell .. good share with your students:
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> http://www.buzzfeed.com/jobarrow/sorry-did-you-actually-want-comic-sans
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> *Roland GESTHUIZEN *http://about.me/rgesthuizen
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>  On 17 Jun 2015, at 3:23 pm, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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>       Laurie Savage
> home | mr savage
> <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> wrote:
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> 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
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> I suggest you give it to your web design students as a salutary example.
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> Mark
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> On 17 June 2015 at 14:29, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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> On 17 June 2015 at 14:09, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
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> While we're talking about bad fonts ... you're not considering running for
> president are you? ^____^
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> I could do. I have a cognitive disability when it comes to design, as
> anyone who has been to vceit.com can attest.
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> Some people are tone deaf. I'm design deaf.
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> Anyway - what's wrong with the Angry Birds font??
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> Will you be telling me next that you don't like using delightfully
> whimsical Comic Sans for body text on webpages and in emails?
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> Philistine!
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>       Laurie Savage
> home | mr savage
> <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> wrote:
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> I should have explained that the post was relevant to ITA because of
> design principles.  :-)
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> On 17 June 2015 at 08:49, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
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> Sometimes fellow-tech people make me squirm in discomfort.
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> 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/
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