Best Websites for Teaching and Learning: Media Sharing

Masher
Are you a little hesitant to create videos? Masher makes it’s easy. You can “mix, mash, and share” video clips, audio files, and photos into polished movies. Students own content as well as media from the BBC Motion Gallery and Rip Curl free for the mashing, and can then be shared on social media sites or via email.

How does an HTML form work?

A web form has two parts: the HTML ‘front end’ and a back end form processor. The HTML front end part handles the presentation while the back end handles the form submissions (like saving the form submissions, sending emails etc).
The back end form processor script is usually written in languages like PHP, ASP or Perl.

The image below illustrates the concept:

1. A visitor visits a web page that contains a form.
2. The web browser displays the HTML form.
3. The visitor fills in the form and submits
4. The browser sends the submitted form data to the web server
5. A form processor script running on the web server processes the form data
6. A response page is sent back to the browser.

The HTML form tag

All the input elements should be enclosed within the opening and closing <form> tags like this:

<form>

The input elements go here….

</form>

The following are the attributes of the form tag:

action=”Link to the form processor script”
The action attribute points to the server side script (the ‘back end’) that handles the form submission. Usually, this will be a script (PHP,ASP, Perl) or a CGI program.

From: http://www.javascript-coder.com

Web Design: What Color to use in my site?

If you are new to design, it can be a tough decision to select colors for your web site. Here are some sites that can help you with the process:

• Color Scheme Designer not only provides color options but shows example pages with the color scheme you have chosen.
• ColorJack offers color schemes, a color sphere generator, and a wealth of other resources including articles, software, a blog, etc.
• The Color Wizard offers a variety of ways to choose and compare a variety of color schemes related to a chosen starting color.
• Eric Meyer’s Color Blender is very useful when you want to create site with a monochromatic color scheme.
• Sometimes designers choose colors based on a photograph. Visit colr.org to select a image from the Web and choose colors from from the image for use in your site.
• WellStyled.com offers a handy color scheme generator that will create a variety of color schemes including monochromatic, contrasting, triad, tetrad, and analogic.
• Hypergurl.com offers a color scheme generator that shows a quick preview of text and background colors.
• The color selector at Colors4WebMasters offers point and click color choosing options, immediately shows you the results, and generates CSS to configure the colors.
• Use the RGB sliders to choose a color and Lee Street Management’s QuickColor Flash animation will display a selection of coordinating colors.
• Color Wheel Pro – a program that allows you to see color theory in action: you can create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples.
• Adobe’s Kuler offers an easy way to browse color schemes or search for a color scheme based on a keyword or theme, such as desert.
• Bruce Clay offers an overview of using color in web design focusing on the the hidden meanings of color, branding, and the power of color.
• Colorcombos.com offers a collection of color combinations for your choice and even provides a method to quickly grab the color palette of a web site.
• COLOURlovers is a self-proclaimed “resource that monitors and influences color trends” — it’s a good place to visit to generate ideas.