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The page is about how to create a proper web design using emphasis.

This website shows how a web designer can effectively develop emphasis in a web page. This web page can be used as an instruction guide for a web designer create emphasis in their web pages.

help for building websites for Firefox users.  Pretty cool site

"The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions."

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.

Describes how building relationships is vital in forming professional identity

In depth description of what professional identity is

a front page for microsoft's view on developing fonts

This webpage explains what emphasis is and the different methods to develop it.

Another great website explaining balance including radial balance, vertical balance, and horizontal balance.

Breaks down other forms of balance: radial, vertical. and horizontal balance with example of each

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 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.

JayDax website is developed by a husband wife team, (John and Shelia Chapman) http://www.jaydax.co.uk/lastsupper/lastsupper.htm Rhetorical Analysis: This is a painting of the Last Supper painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. The purpose of this painting is to depicting the scripture in the Gospel of John 13:21,, in the Holy Bible. The targeted audiences are people who are Christians, artist, bible and historian scholars. Understanding the individuals in the painting are biblical, namely Jesus Christ in center of painting establishes a portion of the targeted audience, and the fact that it is a well known painting of Da Vinci establishes the art and historian scholar audience. Design Analysis: The painting is very good example of visual weight. Both symmetrical and asymmetrical balanced are use. Jesus is centered as well as the arch in the center of the table and the apostles are depicted on both sides of Jesus using symmetrical balance. When examining the table setting of the food symmetrical balance is used. Other examples of symmetrical balance are the rear windows, the gridded ceiling. All of these examples convey the definition of symmetrical as history, dignity, and formality. Asymmetrical balance in seen in the arches, one side is colored in and on side white space is used providing contrast and visual weight. Although the panels on the wall are symmetrical the contrast used on the left side provides an unequal, asymmetrical, balance.

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

This page gives 20 tips for proper netiquette that will remain useful for personal and business settings. Some of these include the common sense aspects such as starting an email with 'hello' and limiting or eliminating the use of all caps because that is viewed as yelling in internet terms.

Hello everyone, many website owners make schoolboy errors, that makes their website, well, crap. These errors can cause an annoyance to a large percentage of visitors, and can actually drive traffic away. If you avoid all the reasons I have listed below, you are sure to have an outstanding annoying free website! << This source gives 20 tips on making your website CRAP!

Good and bad aspects of repetition on web pages

History of alignment, why should you care?

Defines an information society

Discusses how the presentation of a message can actually affect the effectiveness on young children

This you tube video describes the history of the internet. This video shows the interesting development of the internet over the years.

A little documentary that explains some of the things we read about in other articles but includes animations and expounds upon the history of the internet. I enjoyed the visuals with the information.