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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.

This is a really really good website that talks about the design element of balance. It not only gives good definitions about the different types of balance, it also provides very good pictures that clearly demonstrate what balance is and how it is used in art as well as graphic design.

This page gives a good definition of the principle of balance and gives good examples.

This site gave some great additional insights into how balance can be used in design. It was nice to get another perspective in addition to the book. It explained it effectively and in simpler terms. Definitely worth the read!

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Good and bad aspects of repetition on web pages

This website is really good on explaining what not to do in a video resume. I thought that this webpage was humorous and provided some really good tips.

This website lists repetition as being one of the 4 principles of good designs for websites. This shows how useful repetition can be when used in the creation of a website. It is a fundamental tool that should be used by designers when appropriate.

This website has a slide show about design as a whole in general and the defintions and concepts of emphasis are also pretty good. This slide show is really good.

CONTRAST. This website not only gives a short explanation of the concepts of design but it also gives examples from actual websites which portray the elements in use. Extremely helpful for visual learners. 

This is a blog site that discusses the four principles of good design including alignment. Each principle is discussed in depth and images are used to support the discussion.

Once you learn exactly why good design is CRAP, then you, too, will see vast improvements in your designs as well.

For anyone who has not used newbie if you can not figure out something digital check here first there are tons of user generate tutorials to help you out.

For beginning website design newbie is a great tool for any form of digital mediums.

Good visual flow exists when the viewer of your page takes a tour through all of its elements, understanding what's important, taking in the key pieces and avoiding snags or dead-ends.

"Good visual flow exists when the viewer of your page takes a tour through all of its elements, understanding what's important, taking in the key pieces and avoiding snags or dead-ends"

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.

This site goes into more detail about elements such as texture and the emotion seen in lines. This is a good tool for better being able to figure out emotions conveyed in lines that might not be as easy to see.

This site goes into more detail about elements such as texture and the emotion seen in lines. This is a good tool for better being able to figure out emotions conveyed in lines that might not be as easy to see.

This website gives some tips on what designer needs to know about typography and how to correctly use it in a design. It tells you to read your design first to make sure that you understand it. If you are having trouble, then of course someone else will as well. It also tells you to keep titles big that way people can identify what the title is. This website gives some very good information that is very useful.

This website gives some tips on what designer needs to know about typography and how to correctly use it in a design. It tells you to read your design first to make sure that you understand it. If you are having trouble, then of course someone else will as well. It also tells you to keep titles big that way people can identify what the title is. This website gives some very good information that is very useful.

CONTRAST- one way to see if you have effectively used contrast is to create the design in a grey scale and see if the design still looks easy to read.

I really like this source because it shows examples of bad contrast beside examples of good contrast, with explanations. It is short and to the point.

Helps you understand good contrast in designs and mistake that are made in the attempt to contrasting

This is a really good page that gives good breakdowns and good examples of flow.

The ultimate goal is for your visual designs to be so good that the visual design itself doesn't really call out at all.

Repetition is action, on websites, social media, advertisments, etc

analyssis of repetiton in several webpages. Gives good examples of repetition

The video below gives a good introduction of the Image Import feature and what it enables

This is a good and simple example of what serif is.

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