DaBrook Blog
Careers in the Field of Web Design
Friday December 9, 2011 | Category: Events, In the Classroom
My slides from a recent talk I gave to some high school web design students to help get them excited about working in the field.
Roadmap for Free Interact Courses
Tuesday November 15, 2011 | Category: Freebies, In the Classroom
Announcing the roadmap for integrating official web standards curriculum with courses on DaBrook.
Announcing the Free Online ExpressionEngine Video Course
Friday October 28, 2011 | Category: Freebies, In the Classroom, Tutorials, Videos
I am excited to open up my first online video course to everyone for free.
Student Poll on How to Make Blackboard More Social
Tuesday September 20, 2011 | Category: Reviews
As a UX designer at Blackboard I’m looking to better understand how we can best build out social tools and social site integrations.
College JavaScript Curriculum: Levels 1 and 2
Friday September 2, 2011 | Category: Freebies, In the Classroom
This is a two semester curriculum I put together for schools looking to teach JavaScript
Going to Work for Blackboard
Sunday June 26, 2011 | Category: In the Classroom
I’m a little sad and super excited to announce my move from Springbrook to Blackboard
Product Image Switcher Tutorial with jQuery and CSS3
Thursday June 2, 2011 | Category: Tutorials
In this tutorial I go over how to make a basic image switcher for use on an e-commerce site.
Announcing the Free ExpressionEngine Workshop
Wednesday May 18, 2011 | Category: Events
A special workshop geared to web students and professionals wanting to expand their CMS knowledge
Stickers Coming for Required Listening
Tuesday March 22, 2011 | Category: Freebies
Excited to finally have some stickers to spread the word for the show!
Plan for Online and Video ExpressionEngine Course
Friday March 11, 2011 | Category: Events
This summer DaBrook will offer it’s first online and video based course in a series on developing for CMS. The first series will focus ExpressionEngine
How to teach HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, HTTP, FTP, and PHP in One Week
Friday March 4, 2011 | Category: In the Classroom, Tutorials, Videos
In this article I give an overview of how I went about trying to teach web design to high school freshman in one week.
An Open Letter in Support of Dan Philibin
Thursday January 27, 2011 | Category: Reviews
In this letter I explain why I give the young Mr. Philibin my full support and admiration
Springbrook Web Program on TV with Channel 9 News Cool Schools
Friday January 21, 2011 | Category:
Our first appearance on local TV for the web conference at Springbrook
Free Graffiti Desktop Wallpaper
Monday January 17, 2011 | Category:
Download this awesome graffiti background for your site or computer
What I Learned Running the 2011 Student Web Conference
Tuesday January 11, 2011 | Category:
We learned a lot of lessons in tripling in size this year!
Klassic Sound bring live sound and recording to the classroom
Tuesday November 23, 2010 | Category:
Thanks to local sound professionals, Klassic Sound, for coming and hooking up our classroom for live sound and recording.
13 Amazing iPhone Midterm Projects from Web Students
Wednesday November 10, 2010 | Category:
For a midterm project, students in Montgomery College’s Advanced Web Class had to design sites for the desktop, mobile, iPhone specifically, and print.
Freelance Friday Projects from High School Web Students
Wednesday October 13, 2010 | Category: In the Classroom
This post outlines some cool work web design and development students are working on with their freelance time.
Results from the Robot Fashion Show
Monday October 11, 2010 | Category: In the Classroom
Check out the winners from my new robotics class fashion show.
Review of An Event Apart DC
Thursday September 16, 2010 | Category: Reviews
A great two days with two students and a thousand web designers at the region’s leading web conference.
2010-2011 Design Has Launched
Wednesday September 15, 2010 | Category:
With this 2010 fall semester redesign I’m proud to offer a complete overhaul of the site. Read more about what this entails.
Tutorial for the 960 Grid System CSS Framework
Wednesday September 1, 2010 | Category: Tutorials
Learn how to take the 960 demo file and transform it into a basic design for a production site.
jQuery Automatic Update Order Form
Monday August 23, 2010 | Category: Tutorials
This tutorial shows how to create a dynamic order form with jQuery
Use the 960 Grid System to Begin Building Your Own Semantic CSS Framework
Monday August 23, 2010 | Category: Tutorials
This tutorial teaches you how to pull out just the parts of the 960.gs framework that you need and incorporate them into your own more semantic framework.
Getting Ready To Launch
Sunday August 22, 2010 | Category:
So much left to do before we’re ready to launch
Videos from the 2010 Student Web Conference
Monday May 3, 2010 | Category: Reviews, Videos
Huge thanks to the Springbrook video team and Kyle for recording and prepping the videos.
Student Web Conference now FREE
Tuesday March 23, 2010 | Category:
We are now offering free entry to all web students.
Download the DaBrook.org Theme for Free!
Friday December 4, 2009 | Category: Freebies
Get the popular hand drawn, paper ruled, 2009-2010 theme for your teaching web site
The Mini-Series, “A Word From The Pros” Episode 2: Go Blog!
Tuesday December 1, 2009 | Category:
In this interview we talk with the awesome Dan Cederholm about his recommendation for new web designers to start blogging
The Mini-Series, “A Word From The Pros” Episode 1: Breaking The Mold
Friday November 20, 2009 | Category: Reviews, Videos
In this interview Kyle talks with Elliot Jay Stocks and Mike Kus about design
What the graffiti means at the bottom of DaBrook
Tuesday November 3, 2009 | Category:
Breakdown of the awesome graffiti at the bottom of the 2009-2010 theme.
Two Ways to Include jQuery in Your Document
Wednesday April 8, 2009 | Category: Tutorials
This tutorial shows how to include jQuery on your server or link to it on Google’s hosted service
Selecting and Styling External Links, PDFs, PPTs, and other links by file extension using jQuery
Thursday January 29, 2009 | Category:
Learn how to add icons to your links depending on the type of file or site you are linking to
Input Field Hints Plugin For JQuery
Tuesday January 6, 2009 | Category: Freebies, Tutorials
This plugin displays a message inside of input fields that disappears on focus when you click into the field.
