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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.
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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.
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A common mistake is to prioritize style over substance
- 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
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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
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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 on 10 Mar 14
  
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ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14

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
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HTML is the structure
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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
- ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
  
  Resources to start learning HTML/CSS. All free, and all simple for those just starting out with coding.
  
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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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both the creation and the consumption of these images on mobile devices speaks to the relative ease of tapping into that familiarity
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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.
- 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
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Of course the networks matter – because they always have
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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.
  
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They horrify, but they don’t necessarily empower – or encourage action
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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.
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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
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“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.”
- ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14
  
  Powerful because without awareness there will never be action.
  
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ilana enoukov on 10 Mar 14

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.
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Strengthen Your Footer.
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Improve Your Permalinks
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Improve Your Sidebars.
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Make Sure Everything is Current.
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  Currency equals relevance
  
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Check Your Site as a Visitor
- 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!
  
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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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Blogger v Wordpress: Which Is The Best Platform For Your Blog? - Epreneur TV - 0 views

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Blogging is perfect for every entrepreneur. It doesn’t matter if you are a start-up business or running a growing concern, or whether you have a bricks-and-mortar store or operate solely online. The bottom line is that blogging can help drive traffic to your website, build authority and create community.
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Perhaps the biggest advantage of using Blogger.com is that it is free, quick and easy to use.
- Michael Tran on 10 Mar 14
  
  Easy to start up!
  
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I hope I’ve convinced you that every small business owner and entrepreneur needs to blog.
- Michael Tran on 10 Mar 14
  
  Start one now!
  
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Michael Tran on 10 Mar 14

A comparison between the blogging platforms, blogger and wordpress.

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Half The Sky Movement- Facebook - 0 views

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Read about the 121 organizations who made it through our most rigorous application & evaluation process yet.
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Women are often victims of hunger, but they also play a crucial role in defeating it, says the World Food Programme. Share this fact and help spread awareness of the issues facing women and girls worldwide!
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It's Fact Friday!
- Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
  
  They do something called Fact Friday, where they upload a fact every Friday about women in our world.
  
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Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14

A Facebook page that hopes to raise awareness and funds for the empowerment of women and girls across the world. Various facts and statistics are uploaded and there is also a game. By creating an interactive platform, they hope to encourage more people to visit their page.

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Spur - A fun and easy way to critique a webpage. - 0 views

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A site that allows people to critique their website through various tools provided in the app. There are seven tools. For example; One is Grayscale, which makes your webpage black and white to see if the design still works. This helps a person to evaluate their website's design effectiveness.

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A Collection of Page Transitions - 0 views

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A website showcasing various transitions people can use to make their website interesting when transitioning between pages. The animations may be applied to "pages" for creating interesting navigation effects when revealing a new page.

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vlog.it - 0 views

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- Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
  
  People can simply click on any of the rotating images and videos of the author's work will show up. It's an interesting way of allowing people to get to know the artist. It's different than youtube where people just look up videos and watch them
  
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- Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14
  
  A share link allows people to share their favourite videos or the website with others.
  
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Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14

Great example of an interesting and unique website design! It's extremely interactive and eye-catching.

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Designspiration - Design Inspiration - 1 views

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  Below are links of various categories people can find inspiration in on this website
  
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Claudia Yung on 10 Mar 14

A website all about inspiring people through sharing designs of architecture, typography, illustrations, etc. It is a community in which members are encouraged to pin and post their favourite designs and share them with other members. The photos on this website can help inspire ideas for people creating their own websites.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A website all about inspiring people through sharing designs of architecture, typography, illustrations, etc. It is a community in which members are encouraged to pin and post their favourite designs and share them with other members. The photos on this website can help inspire ideas for people creating their own websites. </div>

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