LearnHub

I use StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/) for some nice random inspiration.

They have a plugin for firefox and IE which lets you randomly stumble upon a web address in their database, or flag/review sites you like and add to them to the database.

The interface doesn’t have quite the same finesse that Photoshop has which causes you to revert back. If you don’t have access to Photoshop it’s a great alternative.

For those wanting to get into graphic design as a career choice, employers will still require you are comfortable with Photoshop so I wouldn’t put GIMP on your resume, I doubt many would accept it as equivalent (or know what it was).

(laughs) yes you were the master of scanlines :P

I remember the days of infant HTML and it wasn’t pretty. all the < blink > tags.. yikes! Luckily web design has matured for the most part.

My name is Christopher Jones. I’m a friend of Lechuck, “your friendly neighbourhood spider-admin”.

Anyhow enough joking around. I’m a PHP/Mysql Database Developer (nothing quite as nice as working with Ruby on Rails, from what I’ve seen, but I’m getting there.)

I love technology and find any excuse to be creative with it. I'll do my best to help LearnHub get through it's infancy. Look like a good project and should be quite successful.

My other interests are graphic design, music, and langugages.

The course cost is off by a few decimal places. Entering $9200 = $92

Is there going to be some integration with other social communities? Facebook, for example.

Notifications of new messages/tests/courses cross-linked into your profile would be helpful for those who have a social community integrated into their life in one way or another.

This would also be useful for advertising to other users about learnhub and attract interest from those who otherwise wouldn’t know about it. It would also provide mobile support for notifications for those who use the mobile service to access their facebook profile on their cell/blackberry/mobile pc.

I know there are cons to this as well. Just thought I’d put this out there and see if there was interest in it.

Ambient Findability – Great book from O’reilly Media http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ambient/

Ohhh Nooo not Frontpage… lol

Textmate is a great program for the mac. I’ve never really used UltraEdit but looks pretty feature rich for $50, I’ll have to look into that. Adobe doesn’t seem to like developers. :(

CSS Zen Garden by Dave Shea (Author), Molly E. Holzschlag (Author) website: http://www.csszengarden.com/

As the original hand coder that inspired the mighty lechuck.

I still love using notepad because it shows that you still have all the knowledge of the tags, functions, and syntax of what your building. Knowing the syntax inside and out comes in handy when trying to debug problems.

Dreamweaver does add some benefits when working professionally with web design, and has come far from the messy gui web editor of it’s youth. It allows for real-time previews of most pages, I usually work in split mode so I can work in text then check it in the design view. Code Completion and Syntax Highlighting also helps out a great deal.

Dreamweaver is good for getting stuff done quickly in a production environment.

However for those who hate all that GUI, after a while I grew out of notepad’s functionality and found that Textpad (http://www.textpad.com/) has alot of added value like syntax highlighting for many languages and tabbed files(so you can work on a few files at once).

Notepad still is the best test of your abilities and anyone learning the basics should use this, not Dreamweaver. That’s cheating.

I only disagree with the ‘best’ title.

Either platform is proficient at the task it is given, I use both platforms on a daily basis. There are the obvious differences when it comes to underlying platform and design.

OSX is very different if your not used to its user interface. The consistent top menu bar is confusing to any strictly windows user, as it just changes as you move between programs. Windows of course has its menus built into the application window.

Windows has been fairly consistant with a lot of its user interface from 3.1 to XP, no overly jarring changes.

They have more in the way of 3rd party software developers for the Windows platform, but when you look at the fact that Adobe and Autodesk have software that sit on both sides of the fence there isn’t much difference to what major applications you can run.

OSX hasn’t done much to disturb the status quo. They need more software support from other developers however.

Vista has pushed the OS away from the normal user interaction it’s always had, as you have to worry about security every second. In general I feel they have overly bloated the OS with more “fancy doodads” that it doesn’t need to be effective as an operating system.

When you need a fast car, a Ferrari or Corvette both can win a race, it’s all just personal preference in the end.