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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?

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.

""We have entered the knowledge society and everyone must have access to participate. The internet is the most powerful potential source of enlightenment ever created. Governments must regard it as basic infrastructure, just like roads, waste and water." Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union"

Three-minute video on the history of rhetoric. Nice brief-yet-informative video on the basic concepts and other nice tidbits that provides good background knowledge.

I thought this little blog was very useful for understanding rule of thirds as it applies to photography. I was already familiar with the rule from my photography class in high school and I find it is easier to understand in that context as opposed to the digital drawing arena. Basically, because I understand it in the photography context, it allows me to better understand it the way it has been presented in the text.

This video covers the basic concepts that define balance as a principle of design.

Purdue OWL is a great site that has tutorials for many different English classes and styles of writing. This part of the website is dedicated to online writing. This link gives the basic need to knows of email etiquette. It tells you how to compose various types of emails like business, anon, and casual.

Purdue OWL is a great site that has tutorials for many different English classes and styles of writing. This part of the website is dedicated to online writing. This link gives the basic need to knows of email etiquette. It tells you how to compose various types of emails like business, anon, and casual.

The OWL at Purdue, Purdue Online Writing Lab How to write email to different recipients, responding, continuing email conversation and more

Discussion Board Etiquette This page provides several tips for message board posting etiquette from basic elements like providing a relevant title on a post to more serious issues such as staying away from posting about a personal business or product.

Not really useful for understanding the basics of flow, but elegantly descriptive explanation of the concept of flow.

great video on the basics on forum netiquette. One tip this video gives is to to not post when you are tired or have had a bad day.

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 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.

Discusses repetition primarily in document design.

This article is about the different types of contrast in a photo

Quick reference to emphasis in design.

about.com page on emphais

Goes beyond explaining emphasis and provides useful tips and ideas regarding the actual use of emphasis in varying levels of design. (Week 10, 11/30)

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

Help you understand copyright

This site explains the different in the internet and the world wide web. I found this site to be very helpful to me in identifying the difference in the internet and the world wide web.

This is a very basic, step by step tutorial on audacity. It gives a begginer a great introduction to audacity.

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 breif, but interesting description of value.