Category Archives: Site News

Generally small bulletin posts with information about updates, features, future plans, and progress reports.

DesigningTheNews.com + CSS Galleries = Traffic!

Ooooh well. Over the past couple of days there’s been a rather large surge of visitors to the site, thanks to the readers of some of the internets’ best web design and css galleries! Seen as though this site is part of a university project, and I’m hoping to get a good mark at the […]

Post Details Posted February 29, 2008 at 11:59 pm By Dave | Also posted in Design | Tagged as , , , , , | 3 Comments

Refocused project aims and outcomes

After a presentation I gave last month as part of a first term review, I have decided to refocus the main project aims and outcomes. When I decided to take on this project my aims were to create and develop a broad range of experiments which encourage viewing the news in different, more visual ways. […]

Post Details Posted January 3, 2008 at 5:52 pm By Dave | Tagged as , , , , | 0 Comments

DTN site design and review

Well the new site design is now up, and I’m getting well into the swing of things. I have my research all filed on my computer ready to post, and I’ve started sketching out some ideas in detail for what I want to do. Now the site is up and designed, all I have to […]

Post Details Posted December 5, 2007 at 5:05 pm By Dave | Also posted in Design | Tagged as , , , , | 0 Comments

Site Plan

I’ve been working alot on the image of the site and how it should navigate. I’ve knocked up a quick site plan so far which I think I’m going to sketch to.

Page List

About, information on the project
Discuss, forum for discussing the news and current work
Labs, the base for all the experiments I will be producing
Netcasts, collection of weekly news videos
Search […]

Post Details Posted November 7, 2007 at 3:03 am By Dave | Also posted in Design | Tagged as , , | 0 Comments

Hello world!

Welcome to DesigningTheNews.com, part of a final year university study into multimedia design and technologies, a site which will document my research and development of representing and interacting with news and information data.
What does this mean?
As I explore how news is viewed, collected, read, stored, and updated, all of my research will be posted incrementally on here. […]

Post Details Posted October 23, 2007 at 9:32 pm By Dave | Tagged as , , , , , | 0 Comments