Selpa Designs is a blog maintained by graphic designer and technological enthusiast, Nicholas Selpa. This web site will document the trials and tribulations of an intermediate user sorting out all the semantic pitfalls one may encounter and point to references which should help with the their development in their workflow.
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Where Is The Usability?
Posted on May 3, 2007
The Internet has gone through a lot of growing pains, especially the use of mark-up for information representation. HTML, when it was originally created, was designed to output simple items, such as paragraphs, lists, and tables, for information exchange. With the Internet’s ARPANet roots, that totally makes sense since ARPANet wasn’t conceived with the notion that roughly thirty years later, this would be used for private and commercial usage with rich multimedia .
Over that time of growth, web design went through a lot of visual growing pains. People kept pushing the envelope while others created some very eye-catching designs that fail the usability test, even if it DOES validate.
Past Articles From The Selpa Designs Blog:
WordPress Quirks - Unnecessary <p> Tags | Posted on May 1, 2007
Tutorial: Writing Your First Website - Part 3 | Posted on April 19, 2007
Tutorial: Writing Your First Website - Part 2 | Posted on April 12, 2007
Welcome to Selpa Designs | Posted on April 5, 2007
Tutorial: Writing Your First Website - Part 1 | Posted on April 4, 2007
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John Robert Powers - Reno
John Robert Powers is a modeling school for both children and adults who are looking for a formal introduction into the modeling industry. Through their classes and their industry contacts, JRP helps develop successful individuals on the road toward the entertainment industry.
I was approached by one of the instructors at JRP to retouch some photographs for an upcoming IMTA event for the children which were under her direction. Using photo retouching software to help achieve the look she was looking for in her students, I was able to add life and vibrance back to photos which seemed flat and dull from their raw exposures.
In addition to general edits, I was also asked to remove distracting elements, such as the seam between concrete slabs in Rachel’s photo, to help provide more focus on the subject of the image. Completed for December 2006.
