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this website talks about the many emphasis techniques especially for online text

I was a little confused about copywriting from the text but this website helped me understand some of the formulas and what to focus on: headlines Push Chapter 1

6 principles of design

all about emphasis & its importance

this had clear bolded instructions, making it clear

BoD Chapter 2: This page contains an outline of emphasis techniques to create visual hierarchy. It also includes links to more information on web design and links to templates for web publishing.

This page first lets you know what contrast is and how you use it and then goes on to give examples of contrast and how it can be used. This page and the examples are very helpful for beginners.

This site reinforces the principle of contrast. I like the definition that it provides. "Contrast makes a page more interesting so the reader is more apt to pay attention to what is on the page."

CONTRAST-is not exclusive to color but extends to change in fonts, having headlines, links and images on the page.

gives good examples of contrast & links to more info

Ch 4-BOD Balance This article talks about the concept of visual weight in a design, paying particular attention to the principle of color.

Article discussing the pitfalls to avoid when writing emails.

This site has MANY examples of repetition.

This is a good website that is ran by the government that talks all about copyright and the rules and regulations and the process for how to get a copyright. This is very good resource.

Government's copyright office.

NETIQUETTE This was a very informative site that talked about netiquette for many different online situations including emails:personal and professional

Covers all types of soical media, net education, cybersafety, ecommerce, email, digital video, and gaming. Each area has a list of rules and there are subsets to some areas such as cybersaftey. Easy to read which is good because there is a lot of information

Talks more about visual flow and verbal flow.

Explain what flow is and some basic principles to follow. Discusses the difference in visual and verbal flow and how to improve both

This is a copy of pages from a presentation that talks about the repitition element and other design elements that we have discussed in class. These pages are very informative and provides some good examples.

Goes into Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity when it comes to design.

CREATIVE COMMONS. This PDF tells, for those who are better absorbing information by reading it rather than seeing a cute video, more about what the creative commons is, who it's being done by, and how it can be applied to our lives.

middle ground of "some rights reserved" that respects intellectual property while expanding the acceptable uses of protected material.

New Media: This is Wikipedia's definition of new media, in which accessibility and interactive abilities are prominent factors. This page provides a history and definition of the term and includes the various uses and effects of new media.

Defines new media and has links to further define key words in definition. Links you to our scholars write about new media, even Manovich.

"New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century which refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content." This is a quick and easy resource to reference new media.

NEW MEDIA This site gives a definition of what new media is and examples of technolgies that are considered new media.

This is a webpage about flow from a digital scrapbook creator. This is some good information because she provides a simplistic definition of flow and states some good ways of how to accomplish flow.

I like this page because although it describes flow in scrap booking, I think we can apply this to web layout or our blogs. She explains visual flow very nicely and even explains how to create flow.

This is a really good video about what new media is and what it means to us in general terms.

This man really displayed the importance of new media. He accurately defined the material and was extremely persuasive with his view on the critical nature of it.

This man really displayed the importance of new media. He accurately defined the material and was extremely persuasive with his view on the critical nature of it.