We provide assistance with
- Website design
- Accessible web pages for departments and programs
- Web-One/Drupal CMS
- Social media
- Section 508 compliance
Websites and Online Resources
Website Design and Development
- The Grid System - a design method applied to CSS for building web pages.
- Bootstrap - web design/development framework
- {less} - dynamic CSS
- jQuery - JavaScript library and projects
Browser-based Apps
- Chrome apps and extensions- user needs to have a Google account
- Pixlr - free, full featured, browser-based photo editor similar to Photoshop
- Pixlr Express - free, easy to use browser-based photo editor. Much more straightforward than Photoshop.
- Shift-Edit – browser-based web design/development IDE with SFTP, live view of web pages, code syntax checking for HTML, Javascript, PHP, SQL, Java, Ruby etc. Can open and save files offline.
- Pocket - Save web pages to read later.
- AdBlock for Chrome - Block all advertisements on all web pages, even Facebook, Youtube, and Hulu.
- Google Drive– contains all of your Google docs, spreadsheets, Fusion tables, drawings, etc. with many add-on apps in addition to Google docs including
- Pixl Editor, free photo editor
- Draw iO – create diagrams
- Firefox extensions - accessed from the Firefox start page (click the "home" icon). Many good ones, including
- myCSUNbox– CSUN provided Box account. Save data online and share documents securely. CSUN Faculty and Staff members receive 10 Gb of storage space.
Free/Public Domain Image Resources
- Wikipedia's list of public domain image resources
- 21 Free Public Domain Image Websites
- 15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online
- Library of Congress
- Columbia University – Public Domain Resources
- Getty Center Open Content Program
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Collection
- Oviatt Library
- Artstor
- CSU World Image Kiosk
- ImageCodr
- Wikimedia
- OpenClipArt
Blogs & Social Media
- Wikipedia's long list of social networking sites
- Wordpress.com - hosted blog/website
- Blogger - Google's hosted blog
- Tumblr - a good hosted blog
- Academia.edu - distribute and read academic research