Albert Willis

Compiled here is another top 10 countdown. This time we count down the top 10 PSD to HTML conversion tutorials. These top tutorials teach you how to take many different designs in Photoshop, and code them out into HTML and CSS. The list is in descending order leaving the best tutorial until last. Remember that this is WebDesignDev’s opinion about the order that the tutorials are in. What tutorial is your favorite? And does number one deserve to be number one? If you have any suggestions on tutorials you think should have made the top 10, then please drop by a comment. Anyway, enjoy the list. - Albert Willis

For Excel 2010 we’ve implemented sparklines, “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, as their inventor Edward Tufte describes them in his book Beautiful Evidence. Sparklines help bring meaning and context to numbers being reported and, unlike a chart, are meant to be embedded into what they are describing: - Albert Willis

Playdar is a music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more. - Albert Willis

Playdar — currently available as a functional software program, which we’ve tested, and can verify that it works, although it’s not quite ready for the average user — is a new, more potent spin on the shareable playlist concept. At it’s core, Playdar is an open-source software platform that knows the location of all the music on your computer and home network. This doesn’t sound impressive on its own, but Playdar grows in power when combined with services and plug-ins through its open architecture, enabling music services to save money and increase their revenue, among other things. - Albert Willis

The mere promise of Google Wave inspired a rainbow of potential use cases, but Wave's best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here's how to manage a group project in Wave. - Albert Willis

What you will learn from this book Get started with your Social networking site Customize your site's appearance to give it a unique style Invite friends, create groups, and start blogs Automate your user registration Host photos, videos, and MP3s—enable users to comment and discuss them Use Elgg as a group podcasting platform Create, improve, and maintain a community Protect your network from spam Approach This book has a very easy-to-follow approach that will teach you how to do things with examples and lots of screenshots. As an example the book builds a community site for Linux administrators. Who this book is written for This book is aimed at people interested in social networking and e-learning teachers. - Albert Willis

An electronic portfolio, also known as an e-portfolio or digital portfolio, is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web. Such electronic evidence may include inputted text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and hyperlinks. - Albert Willis

Mahara is an open source ePortfolio and social networking web application. It provides users with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning, and social networking features to allow users to interact with each other. Mahara provides users with blogs, a resume builder, a file manager and a view creator - a tool to help users create arrangements of their content in a particular way for others to see. - Albert Willis

LEAP 2.0 is the name given to a set of exploratory concepts, aiming to provide a sound basis for practical interoperability between e-portfolio and e-PDP tools, and other tools dealing with the same kinds of information. The information covered may include, for example, digital artefacts created by the portfolio holder; structured information about those artefacts; about relevant activities, achievements, goals, people, abilities, interests, resources, plans, etc.; links to other resources, or definitions e.g. of skills or competences; unstructured or structured reflections and assertions about any of the above; relationships between all of the above. In the belief that information related to a person should be in all cases easily accessible to that person, and wherever appropriate under the control of that person, LEAP 2.0 provides the basis specifically for representing the kinds of information that can be owned or controlled by the individual concerned. - Albert Willis

LEAP 2.0 is the name given to a set of exploratory concepts, aiming to provide a sound basis for practical interoperability between e-portfolio and e-PDP tools, and other tools dealing with the same kinds of information. The information covered may include, for example, digital artefacts created by the portfolio holder; structured information about those artefacts; about relevant... more... - Albert Willis

This specification is intended to cover the representation of several kinds of information, centred around individuals, who collect, create and use their own information. Much of this information is typically of the kind that can be used for individuals' learning, but rather than being learning materials authored by an educator, the information covered by this specification is authored by the individuals themselves, about themselves. The individual, whether pupil, student, apprentice, employee or none of these, may be thought of as a learner for our purposes. If a learner reflects, on the information collected, or on other things, the expression of that reflection will be one kind of information that will take a natural place among the other kinds of information dealt with here. - Albert Willis

Dropout Risk Factors and Exemplary Programs a Technical Report C. Hammond, J. Smink, & S. Drew: National Dropout Prevention Center. D. Linton: Communities In Schools, Inc. May 2007. This study, conducted by NDPC/N, and sponsored by Communities In Schools Inc., finds that there are multiple risk factors which increase the likelihood that students will drop out. The evidence clearly shows that dropout is always the result of a long process of disengagement that sometimes begins before the child enrolls in kindergarten. The report also provides information on 50 programs that were found to be effective in addressing these risk factors. - Albert Willis

A dropout early warning system (DEWS) with research-based solutions and a system for value-added assessment. - Albert Willis

For any organization that has a message or a mission, a press release is one of its most effective and vital means of communication. A nonprofit organization cannot afford to operate without good publicity. No matter how great your cause or worthy your need, if you don't have someone good writing your press releases, you will only achieve nominal success. In our modern world of multimedia, a newspaper still provides one of the best ways of sending a message out to the general public. You can get your communications published regularly if you write interesting, newsworthy press rele - Albert Willis

We always see roundups and collections of top free wordpress themes but, where do all these themes actually come from. I have taken the liberty to write you a post that roundups up most of the sites where you can find premium like free wordpress themes. When you are in need of high quality wordpress [...] - Albert Willis

Clean, well-commented code and rich with microformats Beautifully designed on a comprehensive layout grid One click color-scheme control Fully formatted widgets, with three custom widgets Distinctive category and tag displays on every page, and a kick-ass custom archive page - Albert Willis

Starting out as a freelancer? Having a reference manual on your bookshelf will make the process much easier. There are great resources — both books and ebooks — that will provide you with all the information you need to start freelancing in one place. From what you need to get started through how you can continue to grow your business, these books will provide any freelancer with a wealth of information. - Albert Willis

Congratulations — you’ve decided to embrace mobile, one of the fastest growing segments on the Web. The first thing you’ll notice is how diverse the mobile ecosystem is. Browsers, screen sizes, connection speeds — everything is different. The Web community enjoyed a brief period of iPhone domination, when addressing one browser/screen resolution seemed sufficient. But now that Android devices (which come with a variety of screen sizes) are quickly gaining popularity, it’s important to once again think of the bigger picture. - Albert Willis

For bloggers, blogging platforms typically provide in-built search tools that allow searching across published blog posts, or across tags and categories. With Custom Search, you can go one step further: you can define a search experience that evolves over time, and includes not just your blog posts, but links extracted from those posts, as well as links from your blog's link lists and blog lists - in short, all items of interest related to your blog. If you author a blog on Blogger, we've built a search gadget for you that does this - the AJAX Custom Search gadget creates a Linked Custom Search engine that automatically updates to allow your readers to search your blog's entire neighbo(u)rhood. It is a uniquely flavo(u)red search experience that gets richer over time. Search results appear inline, so your users don't have to leave your blog. The results inherit the look and feel of the blog, as shown in the screenshot below. - Albert Willis