Artroute.com is my bookmarklets hub

Boston University .. great flashy navigation strips on top of home page banner
Boston University – inside page …right navigation, lisgh gray background and black font with red headers

Assumption College ..intresting idea of two neatly styled ‘Information for’ and ‘Quicklinks ‘ boxes with drop-down menus
http://www.methodistcollege.edu/ – example of listed books but horizontal

University of Denver idea of faded photos (for a gallery?) that become bright onMouseOver

Viginia Tech … an idea for a footer or ContentLine

Bates College

Barclay College

Baptist Bible College

Capella University

UCLA education

Oregon University

Stanford

MIT

Athabascau

American InterContinental University

Open Universities Australia – looks like our ACM’s layout

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If you really want to dig into higher-ed web design, http://www.edustyle.net is the place to start.

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West Virginia University social network presentation page – WVU on twitter – http://twitter.wvu.edu — design by WVU Web Services.

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great red design – http://www.studyadelaide.com/

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wrong signal – I do not want to learn in an animal barn or farm — http://www.kutztown.edu/acad/commdes/

http://www.rdi.co.uk/

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http://www.csu.edu.au – red upper part and grayish content on home page

http://www.irisk-university.ru/ – good design, layout and right navigation

http://www.e-lms.ru/

http://www.naropa.edu/ – example of a banner with listed books (this idea is used too much already)

http://nlu.nl.edu/gateway/ – they have ‘get connected’ (bad buttons) on their HomePage, good social networking sites)

http://www.stonybrook.edu/ – good design + great picture as a button to College’s social webpage with buttond to facebook, yourtube, etc

http://www.facebook.com/brockuniversity – the best facebook page I’ve ever seen, hope will see more such good pages — more their facebook websites – http://apps.facebook.com/bothsidesofthebrain/ – about contest, great layout

http://www.washjeff.edu/ – great red FOLLOW US button — more sites with SocialNet links – http://wayne.edu/ + http://wayne.edu/connect/

http://www.wsu.edu/ – example of styled quick links

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Canada’s top 50 websites – 2 universities listed

http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/

http://www.ocad.ca/

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http://www.murdoch.edu.au/

http://www.bu.edu/

http://www.irisk-university.ru/ – beautiful web

http://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/ – what Mr. Ross likessite

http://www.stonybrook.edu/

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http://www.vcu.edu/ – great shades and inside background for home page (the one where media boxes are)

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http://www.mslaw.edu/ — Massachusetts School of Law

E-mails. News. Facebook. Wikipedia. Do you feel ever feel that there’s just too much information? Do you struggle to keep up with important issues, subject and ideas? Are you drowning in data?

In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. It’s called information visualisation.

The approach is simple: apply the rules of visual design to information – make information into images, rather than text.

from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8381597.stm
recommended by richard

The Google Translate Tool is available from http://translate.google.com/translate_tools. To use it:

1. Choose your website language.
2. Choose to translate to all supported languages or a specific selection.
3. Copy the code provided into your web page.

Like most translation tools, a drop-down list of supported languages is provided on your page in the location where the code was pasted.

However, if your browser is set to a default language other than the one you’re viewing, a translation bar automatically appears at the top of the page. The bar is provided in the visitor’s language and offers a one-click translation process.

The Google translation tool supports over 50 languages. Even Welsh.

Example page is here http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/translate/index.html

more about Google translate tool – http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

#1. en.wikipedia.org (1)
#2. youtube.com (3)
#3. flickr.com (2)
#4. twitter.com (9)
#5. google.com (4)
#6. myspace.com (6)
#7. facebook.com (-)
#8. imdb.com (5)
#9. nytimes.com (7)
#10. apple.com (8)

There is one new entrant, Facebook at #7. washingtonpost.com moved out of the top 10, dropping from #10 last year to #12 this year.

Twitter is the biggest mover, up 5 places to #4.

Wikipedia is still the most cited website on the Web, for social media users and bloggers. YouTube and Flickr, two oft-used media sharing services, occupy the next two spots.

Last year we noted that there were 10 independent blogs in the top 100, including ReadWriteWeb. There are the same number this year, with a couple of new entrants. Here is the blog list circa November ‘09, again with last year’s rank bracketed:

#23 techcrunch.com (#25)
#26 huffingtonpost.com (#32)
#33 engadget.com (#28)
#37 boingboing.net (#29)
#39 gizmodo (-)
#41 mashable.com (#91)
#53 arstechnica.com (#50)
#60 lifehacker.com (#63)
#78 readwriteweb.com (#97)
#93 smashing magazine (-)

Read more http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_most_influential_websites_in_the_world.php#comment-170572

http://www.readwriteweb.com/

ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis, covering web apps, web technology trends, etc.

One of the world’s top 20 blogs, ReadWriteWeb speaks to an intelligent audience of web enthusiasts, early adopters and innovators.

ReadWriteWeb was founded on April 20, 2003 by Richard MacManus and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It is written by a team of Web enthusiasts. To contact ReadWriteWeb about new Web technologies, apps or services

http://ping.fm

Ping.fm is a simple and FREE service that makes updating your social networks a snap!

Twitter Novels are one use of Twitter that many of us would never consider – but there’s a growing number of Twitter Novelists exploring the medium. Today Brandon J. Mendelson, author of The Falcon Can Hear The Falconer (a Twitter Novel) gives some tips for writing Twitter Novels.

A word of caution: As far as English language Twitter novels go, this is new territory. Based on early results, as compiled by ReadWriteWeb, there have not been any success stories. RWW never spelled out what would be defined as a success, but I took their comments to assume no Twitter novelists have crossed into the mainstream or made money. It may be only a matter of time before this changes.

What I’m presenting here are suggestions on how to write and operate your new Twitter novel based on my experience writing “The Falcon Can Hear The Falconer”. I hope what I’m proposing will provide a blueprint for interested writers to create successful Twitter novels.

from http://www.twitip.com/how-to-start-a-twitter-novel/

Instead of sentence by sentence, I’m now twittering just the topic sentences for each paragraph. The reason: To get people engaged, the sentence has to state a position and ask for information. A sentence that simply documents a point doesn’t lead to anything. So people are providing the answers for each paragraph themselves.

I’ve done four sentences. Will try to digest it all by tomorrow morning, write the top of the draft, post it, and resume the Twitter exercis
from http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2008/05/twitter_story_o.html