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This site gives great insight to the elements of design in regards to contrast and gives excellent visual examples. Even though the website is for a painter the same principles in designing paintings can and do apply to other forms of design.

This John Lovett site gives you an overview on all elements and principles of design, including contrast. The website is interactive because there are lessons on everything from how to use watercolors to improving tonal contrast.

CHAPTER 6-REPETITION I liked this site because it showed examples of repetition using websites and I thought it was very fitting to look at for project 2

This site is awesome! It's dedicated to galvanizing design elements, trends, and problems in web design.  However, it not only makes the audience aware of the problems, it offers solutions on how to effectively fix design/elemental misuse issues.

"Graphic design contains underlying principles that govern the most important aspects of great design. These principles create the acronym C.R.A.P. which stands for contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity." This link provides both good written examples and picture examples.

help for building websites for Firefox users.  Pretty cool site

A lengthy discussion of new media, how it's defined, and its implications.

Chapter 1 of Design Fundamentals is all about trying to define new media. This site's main function is to help people have a better understanding concerning communications throughout the internet. New media is constantly being redefined because technology and forms of communication through technology are constantly evolving and developing. This site helped me not only understand better what is considered to be new media today, but can help me in the future as new media evolves and the definition changes.

additional web design ideas

"refers to the arrangement of opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs. small shapes, etc.) in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement and drama."

History of alignment, why should you care?

Dives into the matters of fair use and social media. Up to date on current issues and an organization, not commercial web site!

Balance explained using show cased examples, symmetrical balance, and asymmetrical balance.

This site gave a fantastic explanation of balance in web design. I actually think I got more from reading this than I did reading the text book. I loved the visual examples that this gave. Definitely a good read.

Website devoted to exposing web pages with designs that suck. This site has many examples and some even explain why they suck if it isn't already obvious

May actually distract from the main idea when used excessively << Here's a wiki! Similar to the one we created! On the advantages, disadvantages, how to use and examples of repetition.

Summary of remediation

definition and example of key terms

This site gave great definitions of all three of these terms.

"New media technology is any type of application meant to transfer information via digital techniques, computerized systems or data networks." This site describes new media technology.

McLuhans Official Web Site

REMEDIATION. Pandora is one of the most primary examples of how remediation is alive and well in today's digital society. It's a site that has taken the radio and placed it essentially in the listeners' hands with the ability to skip songs they don't like and build stations around songs/artists that they tend to favor.

This site is great! It's almost a webinar in email etiquette.  There's and email etiquette expert, email etiquette 101, and more.

This site has a really good diagram of the difference between immediacy and hypermediacy. One difference is that immediacy is like a virtual reality while hypermediacy is like tv news reports

this is a great site for kids. it starts them out early learning the basics of copyright

Help you understand copyright

Formal Reports: This site provides quick and easy guidelines on how to write a formal report for professional purposes.