IT150 @ Carlow

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What does biology tell us about how we navigate the Internet jungle? Wild animals foraging for food often follow subtle cues such as scent to identify profitable food patches. Read the rest of this entry »

WEB COMMUNICATIONS & DESIGN INTERN (Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA)

We are currently looking for an intern to assist with web communications and web design. This internship provides a real-world look into how a small, private university communications department operates on a day-to-day basis, while inheriting the skills needed to succeed in today’s business world.

Duties include but are not limited to:
•    Generation of web concepts and elements
•    Administration of Web site, web projects, and other tools
•    Design layout for the web
•    Creating web marketing solutions, including design and implementation

Required Experience:
•    Submission of design portfolio and/or 1-2 web URLs with disclosure of role
•    Macromedia Dreamweaver
•    Adobe Photoshop
•    Macromedia Fireworks
•    Adobe Illustrator

Candidates must have excellent communication skills, with strong backgrounds in web design. Any web application development experience (XSLT, ASP.NET) is a plus.

We will also provide letters of recommendation and resume building skills for outstanding work. Internship work will be performed on location at Carlow University’s Oakland campus. Minimum hours required are dependent on individual school guidelines and project completion requirements. We typically expect between 10-15 hours a week on location. Internship dates are flexible, but generally will run from the beginning of September through beginning of December for the fall internship; January through April for spring; and May through August for summer.

Please explain your reasons for wanting this internship (i.e. school credit, general experience) and state your availability.

If you are interested, please send your cover letter and one-page résumé in a Word doc or Adobe PDF, design samples and/or URL submissions. All resumes and work samples should be emailed to raupka@carlow.edu or faxed to 412-578-2080.

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Architects create blueprints for houses, churches, and skyscrapers. What do information architects (IAs) do? Information architects design blueprints for information flow on a website, or in an information system. Find out if you are born to be an IA:

• When looking at a web site, do menus that hold no meaning to you whatsoever leave you in a bad mood?
• Do you feel that the important stuff in the web site you’re building is somehow between the pages as well as on the pages?
• Are you the one asking your little brother to test your web sites during lunch?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, you may be gifted in information architecture! (Source: Information Architects Association) Read the rest of this entry »