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Nice simple outline example of a formal report. Summary of Points made in the Body of Report"

This is a very simple outline of how a formal report should be formatted. For a quick reference this is a great site to look at!

This is a good site with lots of good tips and tricks and resources provided in these videos.

I like this website because it gives some really great tips, and some examples of what not to do in your videos. The resumes they gave as examples were awful, but it was good to see what not to do.

This is a great website with 5 tips to create a video resume.

The ten steps required to produce a good video resume include quality, appearance, language, substance, creativity, background, character, editing, references, and length. Video and paper resumes requirements are not that different. But a video resume can help you exploit your creativity and character.

this site offers a great overview of what makes up a good resume.

Remediation Article Helper This site digs deeper into the creation of new media, arguing that it may not be as effective as old traditional forms of media. The article suggests that these new types of media have "morphed" into what they are because of the foundations of old media.

"Lev Manovich sites the five principles of New Media as Numerical Presentation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. It is the second category, modularity, with which I seem to take issue" Blog entry, in which the other takes issue with Manovich's "modularity" category.

Watching this video, which was linked within the introduction to rhetoric on the Purdue OWL site, helped me become cognizant of the origins of rhetoric and the historical background of the skill. It's a very good primer before diving into the readings.

In Chapter one of the text, the topic of raster versus vector images is touched upon. I chose this website because it dives a little further into the topic of which type of image you should use. This site is helpful because it is very clear that you should use vector images for logos and illustrations and raster images should be used for digital graphics and digital photography. Knowing when to use each type of imaging is critical when beginning a project.

This site gives an overview of what Cloud computing actually means to the user. This was helpful to me because nowadays everyone uses cloud computing and it also helped go in a little more detail than chapter 4 of The Computer: A Very Short Introduction

Another great site used to explain what shape is and how it is used in Web Design

A great site that follows the reading of our book and gives descriptions of what shape is with regards to an element of design

We read "The Influencing Machine" this week by the author, Brooke Gladstone. I found this book to be an interesting take on things and wanted to know more about the author. I bookmarked this site because it gives details as well as links to Gladstone's work.

I thought this site was interesting because it deals with oscillation and new media technologies.

An site that discusses all of the importance of color when using it in design. I found this to be quite helpful because it goes more in depth about the symbolism and the science of how color has been used.

This is a cool little article that talks about texture in design and how it is used. I thought it was helpful to continue to build knowledge on how to use texture since too much is not a good thing.

I liked this site because it went into some detail about texture and gave some realistic familiar examples like Apple icons.

This website does a fantastic job describing how rhythm can be created and utilized in a web design. Rhythm can be very effective in moving a user's eye across the website while also providing an aesthetically appealing appearance. Rhythm is an element that can tie an entire site together when used properly.

This website provides some inspiring examples of typography being used effectively in web design. These examples are incredibly useful for anyone interested in designing a website because they show you how to properly utilize typography. Each of these examples chose the perfect type to build there website around and the typography really adds to the overall site.

I wanted to find another site with a more in depth explanation and found one with totally new elements that can be used to improve layout and design. Most of these examples I have never heard of besides focal point and grid design, but you can never know too many new ways in order to improve your delivery, right?

Another great site for balance in design. This page gives visualizations, though, and can really help to learn the subject matter.

BoD Chapter 4: I really like this site because it provides visual examples for all styles of balance.

This site tells you how to have individual page templates,how to use a static front page,and how to have multiple headers and footers and sidebars