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This website has been a great help to me. I am pretty learned in what the internet is all about and how to use it, but it is always very interesting to form knowledge of how exactly it was developed and put to use.

This article gives a description of how space can be used in web design. It then goes on to give some great examples of how it is used in popular websites.

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

This website explains more about value and contrast. It gives several examples of value and the differences between color. I really like the portion where it gives an image of the gradual change of colors when using values. It helped me better engage my learning by looking at different examples.

This website explains more about value and contrast. It gives several examples of value and the differences between color. I really like the portion where it gives an image of the gradual change of colors when using values. It helped me better engage my learning by looking at different examples.

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 article was very interesting to read because it talked about sensory association and how it can be used to heal people like in hospitals. Although this article is mostly geared towards interior designers, I feel like designers in new media can also use this concept to make something that help heal someone.

This website introduced me to several different tools that can help a web designer choose the proper typography for their website. I found these tools to be very interesting, innovative and useful. I would encourage anyone interested in web design to take a look at these tools as they could provide very interesting insights in the future.

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.

These are some cool examples of geometric shapes being used in web design. My favorite is the Yuna website. I don't know why, but I have a thing for really simple designs that use basic geometric shapes. I think there's beauty in simplicity.

I wanted to know more about the use of grids and how often they are used in design so I found this website that helps designers with possible grid layouts. There is so much here to see and process that the website itself is set on a grid like design.

This website gives a list of great uses of texture in web design. My favorite is the website for Andreas Fretz. This website is for a landscaping company and uses the texture of plants to help the viewer feel like they are in the right place.

Since I used this example in the RoD assignment this week I thought I would use it here too.

REPETITION is the use of similar or connected pictorial elements. For example, similar shapes, colors or lines that are used more than once"

Principle of design using balance in art, shows example of balance used as a means to control gravity (balance) in art work.

This is a really good site that provides lots of plug-ins that will help you not only to improve your WordPress blog but to make it more accessible to others. It gives yout alot of plug-ins that you can use to link the blog to Facebook or Twitter and also provides a couple of plugines that will let provide a link to social bookmarking sites (Diigo) to the blog. It also provides plug-ins to put picture and videos on your blog. Overall, if you want to use your wordpress blog beyond this class, this website gives your idea to make it more personal and one of a kind.

WORDPRESS. This website shows you how to make your own wordpress theme using an application called Lubith. This seems like it's a really cool and useful tool in conjunction with wordpress.

Ways and methods to create a focal point

There are few Ways to Create a Focal Point: by Contrast, Isolation , Placement. this article gives example of each

"method used to attract attention in the design of a page or work of art is the use of a focal point"

this site has lots of info; defines copyright and fair use, gives examples, and breaks them down.

I really like this website because it's the official Creative Commons website. This particular page was interesting because it is informative to actually see who uses CC and why it is helpful.