This page will help me with Project #1 because it informs me on how to write instructions specifically on the web. It contains a lot of great information, including why knowing your audience is important, how to remain brief but be exact, how to select appropriate wording, and how to perfect the visual appeal of the instructions.
This site gives step by step directions on how to draw the golden spiral, which I found to be the most changeling concept discussed this week. This site is really helpful if you wanted to use the Golden Spiral rule to give balance to an image.
This site gives step by step directions on how to draw the golden spiral, which I found to be the most changeling concept discussed this week. This site is really helpful if you wanted to use the Golden Spiral rule to give balance to an image.
BoD Chapter 7: This site defines flow and provides techniques on how to control flow and achieve harmony in flow. It also contains some great visual examples with explanations.
Chapter 7, Flow: A very in depth analysis of flow in design, with specific tips and examples to help improve the flow of your website design. While it contains most of the same information given in other websites, it manages to go even deeper, relating to more than simply spacial relations and the like.f
This site is very thorough and detailed and offers information on visual and verbal flow, how to used white space, and using flow to create harmony and unity in the design. The site also show effective use of flow in web design
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.
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.
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.
This is an educational short video by Creative Commons explaining what the CC license is about. It explains the basics of copyright and how others can use copyrighted of pieces. It explains how to make your own artwork into creative commons pieces.
This is an educational short video by Creative Commons explaining what the CC license is about. It explains the basics of copyright and how others can use copyrighted of pieces. It explains how to make your own artwork into creative commons pieces.
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.
While old, I like this resource for two reasons. It gives a snapshot of a problem that we are able to use and relate to today. We are able to see the sort of things they were thinking and how we have evolved or regressed. I also like how it is not just talking about the digital divide, but actually going in to "Where We Are" (or were in 2002). (12/10 Week 14)
I really liked this website because it explains what different types of new media there are. You can click on each one and it will explain and give definitions. Then it gives ideas of how you can use the new media to spread the message of AIDS. This can work to spread any type of message across.
I really liked this website because it explains what different types of new media there are. You can click on each one and it will explain and give definitions. Then it gives ideas of how you can use the new media to spread the message of AIDS. This can work to spread any type of message across.
Homework, WordPress: A more organizational approach to improving your WordPress, including a focus on the calendar feature, pre-publishing, custom statuses, editing and notifications. All of the changes directly relate to making the WordPress more easily accessible and easier to navigate. The focus is more-so on the functionality of the aesthetic than just the aesthetic itself, which makes the WordPress both easy to follow the flow of and interesting to look at.
The reason I chose to bookmark this website is because it was written by another student who obviously went through the process of writing instructions. Ms. Wetherinton give states the do's and dont's of writing instructions and she puts in a way that other students can understand. I think that this will help me with project one because this page lays out very important and valid concepts that must be present in order to write effective instructions.
I like this web page because it describes how to write directions from a student stand point. It is obvious she has written directions before. Also, this page is more down to earth and easier to read than some pages. push #2
CC: Stands for Carbon Copy (Visible to everyone sending email)
BC: Blind Carbon Copy (Not Viable to everyone in the email.)
Keep email short, focused and conversational. Limit sentences to 15 and 20 words.
This website provides several examples of how emphasis can be used in web design. It shows how proportion, contrast and physical relationship can be added to create this sense of emphasis. The easiest method of creating emphasis seems to be contrast. It is very easy to create contrast by simply using different, contrasting colors.
People are physically, psychologically, and socially influenced by color. Color has been found to have connections to health and it can help set the mood through which your designs are seen. << how color and contrast are beneficial to design.