Where Art, Design, and Technology Meet, with Brenda Long
Creator/developer of Mabell’s Zoo and Mabell’s Days available on the App Store.
Be sure to stop by LinkedIn and GitHub for most recent activities.
Mabell’s Zoo is a multi-touch experience for children available at the App Store and Google Play.
While experimenting with Adobe Animate CC and creating an HTML5 canvas element, I wanted to use “other” fonts. I found a solution to incorporate Google Fonts. Step One. Create dynamic text fields with a default font. (txtName, txtScore, txtHighScore) Step Two. Search for the font you wish to use from Google’s Fonts. For example: ‘Oswald’ Continue Reading…
An overview of design principles applied to web sites. Unity refers to joining visual elements into a complete image. With web design it is important that a page design and all pages of a site feel unified, consistent, and give a sense of identity. Following are various methods that can be applied to create unity. Continue Reading…
With so many screen sizes available, it is important for text to resize proportionally. The use of relative font sizes will give users a consistent experience regardless of device. Pixel is a static measurement. Percent and EM are relative measurements with the actual size being dependent on the parent; usually the html or body element. Continue Reading…
“The HTML is broken. The CSS put the navigation over there. The images won’t show up.” As an instructor of basic web design, I have heard a lot of these comments. While helping students I have a series of steps to follow to make HTML/CSS exact. Validate and Eliminate Code Errors Validate the HTML. W3 Continue Reading…
Living on a busy street has pros and cons. Need a quick dinner, fresh vegetables, cupcakes, even a paperback book – got it covered. Need a parking spot out front – now that is a bit tricky. We decided to take advantage of the foot traffic and hence the Elephant from Mabell’s Zoo has moved Continue Reading…
Each year my daughter gives a handmade bell ornament to family and friends. It is important that she is actively involved in the process. Basically that means I get to assemble and tie bows while she is creative. Since we just published Mabell’s Zoo with all the illustrations created from coffee filters, I began to wonder Continue Reading…
After counting a group of 10 crayons, my daughter asked, “Who’s’ number six”. I tried to explain that six was just a number in the counting process. I mixed up the crayons (different order for the colors) and we counted again. I found it interesting that she wanted to give each crayon a proper name Continue Reading…
We visited a beautiful Conservation Center this weekend. The outside included a wild flower garden with benches, bird feeders and a garden stream and pond. The inside was full of interactive displays and critters. Being a new facility, everything was modern and employed various technologies. They even had outdoor nature sounds subtly playing in the Continue Reading…
Test your memory.
An experiment with HTML5 and the Canvas element
