Ever need to find out what colours and fonts are used in a website? I often have to design courses to different corporate brands whether that’s in Rise, Learnworlds, Canvas, Moodle or some other learning platform. Sometimes clients have extensive brand guidelines available, sometimes not. Stylifyme.com allows you to examine URLs and reads out what… Continue reading #636 Stylify Me: An Online Style Guide Generator
Milanote is an easy to use tool for organizing projects and ideas visually. You can write notes, upload files and images, tag websites, make to-do lists. If you have the phone app you can add notes and photos from your phone. You can also share and edit with collaborators in real time. Photo by Glenn… Continue reading #534 Organise Visually with Milanote
If like me you need a bit of help in making your presentations look pretty, Office 365 has a great tool that you can use in PowerPoint Online – Design Ideas (you can find this in the Design tab on the Ribbon). This can transform a slide from a caterpillar into a butterfly. Watch this… Continue reading #512 PowerPoint Online: Design Ideas
Do you need to create colours and patterns for use in documents or designs. Sometimes you need to create colours that match with imagery and make patterns that can repeat. Adobe capture allows you to do this quickly using the feed from your smartphone camera or any pre-existing photo. With a few presses in the… Continue reading #463 Patterns and Colours with Adobe Capture
Not a power user with Photoshop? No idea what dimension a Facebook banner needs? No worries you can use Adobe Spark. It’s free and has loads of templates you can use or adapt without a huge learning curve. Just create an account, log in, make some quick choices…then you can adapt colours and content to… Continue reading #408 Quick graphics using Adobe Spark
In this second and final video we take you through the simple steps of editing your Kaltura CaptureSpace recording. We’ll also show you how to add titles and credits. If you missed the first video about how to capture content click here Featured image “Gideon_Ucko_Producing_Educational_Films.jpg” by Fritz Cohen (Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA… Continue reading #327 Kaltura CaptureSpace [2/2]: Editing
In this final instalment of Jotform, a free* web 2 tool for designing forms we take you through how to view and download responses. The first in the series provides an overview of Jotform and can be found here The second in this series takes you through how to create a form and can be… Continue reading #295 Jotform [3/3]: Reviewing and downloading responses
Jotform is an easy to use Web 2 tool that allows you to create a multitude of forms, surveys, polls and more for a wide variety of purposes. In this second instalment we’ll take you through the easy process of creating a new form and adding some tools. I’ve assumed you’ve created a free account… Continue reading #291 Jotform [2/3]: Creating a new form
If you’ve not yet set up a WordPress account, take a look at the first video in this series (#202 Getting started with WordPress blogs [1/5]: Setting up an account). You can control the look and feel of your blog by selecting a theme that best shows off your content. WordPress has loads of great… Continue reading #206 Getting started with WordPress blogs [2/6]: Changing your blog theme
Adobe Comp is a great free iPad and iPhone app that allows you to create some design ideas quickly and professionally. Although it’s part of the Adobe suite workflow it works brilliantly as a stand alone app. Take a look and discover this amazing free app for yourself. Featured image “notebook-pencil-notes-sketch-8763” by Pexels is licenced… Continue reading #167 Design and create with Adobe Comp
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