"Alignment is another way of creating associations between visual elements, which help users quickly understand the relationships of objects on a page."
Repeated elements in a consistent manner help to promote the organization of the website and reinforce continuity. << This source explains the importance of design and how it creates continuity.
Formal Report
This website provides tables and graphics along with detailed text about the proper way to format a written report for technical writing purposes. The most important message that can be taken away from this site is that in order to have a successful report, each component must be proper placed and present.
This is a great website about formal reports, how they should look and what they should contain. I know this webpage is pretty long but it contains alot of good information about comprising formal reports.
Remediation: This article provides an extended definition of remediation in relation to new media. It also explains the double logic of remediation, which consists of American culture's desire to multiply media while erasing all traces of mediation through immediacy.
Thank GOD for wikia and their simple breakdown of remediation / new media. I read this and finally understand what that article was really about! It is very to the point.
This site shows you how to take a screenshot using windows, mac, iphone, and ipad... I thought that this was a very helpful tutorial. Typically I use screenshots when I'm trying to show something to our IT department so that I can show them what I see.
This website has a short and sweet explanation for all of the elements and principles of design, which I feel like will come in handy later on when/if I need to quickly review some basic differences between the few of them. This page specifically focuses on the importance of value.
This site gives a great timeline of the history of media. In our readings we read Brooke Gladstone's "The Influencing Machine" where she also gave an interesting account of the history of media.
Every week it never fails, any site with more visual examples of the design element is the easiest and sometimes quickest way for to fully grasp the concept of it.
After the reading this week, I book marked this site because it describes effective repetition design principles for web designers. I thought not only was this related to our reading but also to the new media concept in the class
This website explains how effective use of repetition can aid a website design. If used properly, repetition can add an element that helps tie the entire design together. Repetition is very useful principle of design that can add a lot to websites.
I decided to push this website on WordPress improvments to the group because unlike the first website I pushed, this site gives actual tutorials on the how tos. This website also list some other plug ins and features that were not listed on the other website.