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The Keys to Making Fresh, Forwardly Aesthetic Web Designs - noupe - 0 views

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  • Great graphics. Beautiful typography. Clean design. These are all things designers typically think of when creating stunning websites
  • In terms of development and coding there are details as well as tricks that can be used that really take a website from 0 to 60 in seconds
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Negative space, layout, cleanliness, attention to detail
  • he most important thing you must do as a designer is figure out your target audience and figure out what the purpose of the website is (I,e., is it to sell or is it to inform?)
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  • The trick though, is to not get SO outside the box that the website fails to make sense or lose sight of it’s purpose.
  • challenge yourself to be bold and forward thinking when it comes to design.
  • Always be on the lookout for fresh new ideas and see what people are doing
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Everything is a remix of something else. Observing other people's work will improve your own creativity
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What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Bad design can be infuriating, inconvenient or damaging in any field.
  • a well-designed Web site needs to deliver the same things as most other examples of good design by fulfilling its intended function efficiently and engagingly.
  • A common mistake is to prioritize style over substance
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      An example of this is animation ; though it looks great it takes ages to upload, thus making the visitor furious
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  • principal problem with many Web sites is that their designers were neither rigorous nor imaginative enough in planning the way we will navigate them
  • If you find information swiftly and easily on a Web site, its designer has succeeded. But if you need to click on an inordinate number of buttons and links, or dither over what to do next, the designer has failed
  • Amazon’s site scores highly for navigational efficiency, but poorly in terms of the second criterion of good Web design, because it is far from engaging.
    • ilana enoukov
      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Great relevant example of what author is trying to prove. 
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    The good, the bad, and the worse of web design
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Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up - 0 views

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  • Why You Should Get Started with HTML and CSS
  • HTML is the structure
  • CSS is basically giving that structure a style.
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  • 2012 was a great year for the “online education” industry. There were a lot of new startups to really help you learn web design. Some of them are: Codecademy Udacity Mozilla Developer Network Udemy Of course, you always have 1stWebDesigner and some of its really amazing articles, such as: Basic Visual Web Design Mistakes Learn Web Design – Quit College (really good advice there, by the way) Call to Action – Web Design Usability
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Resources to start learning HTML/CSS. All free, and all simple for those just starting out with coding.
  • Consistency is the key when getting started with web design. Are you learning everyday? Are you applying whatever new concepts you learn at least three times a week? Learning a little bit everyday is way better than covering a lot of material in just one day of the week.
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Ukraine And The Stage For Social Protests: When Familiar Visuals Go Viral - 0 views

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  • social familiarity
  • both the creation and the consumption of these images on mobile devices speaks to the relative ease of tapping into that familiarity
  • Thanks to the startups and digital entrepreneurs of this last generation, we are all minor league auteurs or videographers, used to framing the shot, creating more drama, working the lighting.
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      The power of social media. Everyone is a storyteller, and the simplicity and availability of electronics, social media, and the world wide web, makes it possible for anybody to be a relevant news anchor.
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  • long-running debate in some wired intellectual circles about whether social media powers revolutions, whether Twitter or Facebook really assist movements – and on the other side, whether digital technologies now help malign governments in sniffing out and crushing dissent
  • Of course the networks matter – because they always have
  • Twitter isn’t a traditional broadcast company; there’s no editor-in-chief who can be bought or pressured
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Interesting point about Twitter becoming a replacement for traditional news outlets like television and radio. Had similar discussion in class.
  • They horrify, but they don’t necessarily empower – or encourage action
  • we can instinctively understand the smaller scale conflict against a familiar backdrop in the same way we can grasp what happened at the Boston Massacre or even Lexington and Concord versus how Washington conducted the siege at Yorktown. And the visuals – really the currency of social media – have that quality of being instantly understood.
  • What’s different is speed (no wait for the 11 pm news) and the ability of everyone to share those images, along with comments and outrage
  • “Facebook ‘likes’ are often ridiculed as meaningless, but they can make a person realize that their social network feels the same as they do—and that’s a socially and politically powerful thing.”
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Powerful because without awareness there will never be action.
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    When social movement meets social media
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30 WordPress Tips YOU Can Use Today | Blogelina - 0 views

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  • Use a Landing Page.
  • Strengthen Your Footer.
  • Improve Your Permalinks
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  • Improve Your Sidebars.
  • Make Sure Everything is Current.
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Currency equals relevance
  • Check Your Site as a Visitor
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      If the blog doesn't have an effect on you as a visitor, it probably won't have an effect on actual visitors!
  • Encourage Social Sharing.
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      ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
       
      Blogging tips from a blogger (compilation of formatting tips and steps to take to make your blogging experience effective)
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