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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>This is the group tumblog of COMM 535 - Building Interactive Web Sites, a course taught by David Johnson (@darthcheeta) at American University’s School of Communication. 

The class is an advanced practicum in building platforms and projects using many open source technologies, including drupal and django, as well as closed development platforms like flash and actionscript. 

Nicknamed the “Startup Semester,” each student is responsible for building and launching their own site as their individual major project. This aspect of the course teaches core IT, design and development skills as well as content and community management and entrepreneurial skills needed to start new projects and products.

The class also operates as a design and development studio producing major group projects. Students learn to deal with clients and work together in a setting similar to a real world consulting agency. The first of these projects is building and launching a new conversation and community platform site for The American Forum series held multiple times each year by SOC and broadcast over NPR and C-SPAN. 

Each student and the professor maintain individual tumblr microblogs and post to this group blog to share experiences and information with each other and the the public. We invite you to follow us and share your comments.</description><title>Building Interactive Websites</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @interactiveweb)</generator><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Andrea's Website </title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.worldphotoexchange.com"&gt;www.worldphotoexchange.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/572183125</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/572183125</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 21:06:21 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Claritza's website</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.semesterabroadinsider.com/"&gt;My website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/563382273</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/563382273</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 10:56:58 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>My Website</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.dcfallen.net"&gt;My Website&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562367056</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562367056</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:51:08 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>and Overheard in the District is up</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.overheardinthedistrict.com/"&gt;http://www.overheardinthedistrict.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562304742</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562304742</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:19:51 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>my site</title><description>&lt;p&gt;you probably don&amp;#8217;t need to check &lt;a href="http://www.interntracks.com"&gt;my site&lt;/a&gt; out unless you want to feel really good about yours&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562136787</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562136787</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:56:32 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>My site</title><description>&lt;p&gt;onlyaday.net&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I fantastic site full of fantastic fantasy&amp;#8230;..maybe not so much&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562111593</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/562111593</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:42:59 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>My website: TinyTax.info</title><description>&lt;p&gt;My website:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="The Tiny Tax" href="http://www.tinytax.info"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tinytax.info"&gt;http://www.tinytax.info&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-David&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/561959372</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/561959372</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:18:56 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Final Project  :) </title><description>&lt;a href="http://manuelstuart.com/SourceSalon/"&gt;Final Project  :) &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/561676354</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/561676354</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:33:48 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>My Web Final!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://alyssageisler.com"&gt;My Web Final!&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/561351391</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/561351391</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:15:33 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting closer every day.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;FAQ is now (started) screenshots explain common functions like editing pages and adding images.  In hindsight I should have darkened the irrelevant parts of the screen so the important parts stood out more, but it took me like 5 hours to select, capture, crop, modify and upload the shots that are on their now, so I&amp;#8217;m not really up for re-doing it.  Uploading images is going to be a pain no matter how well I explain it, and users will either figure it out or they won&amp;#8217;t.  This will definitely be something that I will take into consideration next time I build a wiki-style project.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the less frustrating side, I also added and tested a &amp;#8220;watch&amp;#8221; feature so users can make sure people don&amp;#8217;t fuck with their loved ones bios.  This would also help with community building because stakeholders get to see the positive changes that are made i.e. memories and tributes that others leave.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/554876251</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/554876251</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:42:24 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Wordpress to Drupal</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t remember if anyone else is switching their site from wordpress to drupal, but here&amp;#8217;s the handy directions in case you&amp;#8217;re like me and freaking out about where to even start:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://drupal.org/node/43178"&gt;http://drupal.org/node/43178&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/546053494</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/546053494</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:29:38 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web Development - Smashing Magazine</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/04/23/educating-your-client-on-web-development-successfully/"&gt;How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web Development - Smashing Magazine&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/543187327</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/543187327</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:17:03 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Network News: Facebook integrates with washingtonpost.com</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;The Post&amp;#8217;s &lt;strong&gt;Raju Narisetti&lt;/strong&gt; and Facebook&amp;#8217;s &lt;strong&gt;Bret Taylor&lt;/strong&gt; will be online &lt;strong&gt;Friday, April 23 at 1 p.m. ET&lt;/strong&gt;to discuss the integration of Facebook&amp;#8217;s social network with Post content, concerns about user privacy and more.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/04/22/DI2010042205706.html?hpid=topnews"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/04/22/DI2010042205706.html?hpid=topnews"&gt;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/04/22/DI2010042205706.html?hpid=topnews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/543143817</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/543143817</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:51:14 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Website Browser Test</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Test how your site will appear in various browsers: https://browserlab.adobe.com&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are a few other services that do this that may be better, but Adobe&amp;#8217;s is worth checking out.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/541142498</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/541142498</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:46:30 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Facebook makes everyone angry, again.</title><description>&lt;h1 class="storyheadline"&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;h1 class="storyheadline"&gt;Facebook unveils big changes&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &amp;#8212; Facebook unveiled a host of changes at its f8 developers conference that are already ruffling some users&amp;#8217; feathers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many of the changes take advantage of big revisions that Facebook made to its privacy settings in late March. Those changes opened the door to allow select third-party Web sites the ability to access and store some users&amp;#8217; personal information. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Those sites can use that information to show what a user&amp;#8217;s Facebook friends have been doing on their sites. CNN, IMDB.com and ESPN.com are among the first sites signing up to use the technology. So if you&amp;#8217;re a Facebook user reading CNN.com, you&amp;#8217;ll be able to see what all your Facebook friends are looking at, view recommended stories and see which friends liked which stories.&lt;/p&gt;
&amp;#8212;&amp;#8212;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/21/technology/facebook_conference_f8/"&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/21/technology/facebook_conference_f8/"&gt;http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/21/technology/facebook_conference_f8/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/541129661</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/541129661</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:38:36 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>XAuth: The Open Web Fires a Shot Against Facebook Connect</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;&lt;span&gt;A consortium of companies including Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Meebo and more announced tonight that it will launch a new system on Monday that will let website owners discover which social networks a site visitor uses and prompt them automatically to log-in and share with friends on those network. The system is called &lt;a href="http://xauth.org"&gt;XAuth&lt;/a&gt; and serves to facilitate cross-site authentication (logging in) for sharing and potentially many other uses. Facebook and Twitter, the dominant ways people share links with friends outside of email, are not participating.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/xauth_is_this_everyone_else_against_facebook_conne.php"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/xauth_is_this_everyone_else_against_facebook_conne.php"&gt;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/xauth_is_this_everyone_else_against_facebook_conne.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/535719698</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/535719698</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:08:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>I pushed the soc logo more to the right because it just seemed funny hanging out where it was.  I...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I pushed the soc logo more to the right because it just seemed funny hanging out where it was.  I changed the font size cause everything was just too small.  I tried to figure out how to change the color of the menu bar, but I couldn&amp;#8217;t figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/532304085</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/532304085</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:33:16 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>contributors </title><description>&lt;p&gt;modified the contributors section to use the connections plug-in&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/532231288</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/532231288</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:00:45 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>additions</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve moved around some of the things in the  header to tighten the white space and align the logos.  I also changed  the font to Garamond and greytoned the footer div. Feel free to modify  some more if you think anything could be better!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/530874360</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/530874360</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:55:15 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Add This</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Opted for add this instead of sharethis.  Registered punditwire on addthis.com for some hot sexy analytics action.  Weekly reports will now be jamming up the punditwire inbox.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/527118506</link><guid>http://interactiveweb.tumblr.com/post/527118506</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:32:47 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
