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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.

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.

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.

Not only does this article help us stay informed about the events that are taking place in Syria, but it also demonstrates that the access to the Internet really is more than turning on a computer. A vast network is necessary to keep connected to the area and when this network becomes interrupted it can cause an entire city, even some of the biggest, to lose their connection to the online world.

This website provides an easy to follow guide on whether or not to design your website to be realistic or abstract. It points you in the right direction depending on your goals for the project. This would be very useful for a web designer trying to decide whether or not they want to use an abstract design with their website.

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

A great summary of flow in web design with great real examples of how it works!

This site has a thourough description of flow and a handful of webpage examples.

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 video shows how to embed a video to Wordpress. It will be helpful if I ever want to upload a video to my blog. It is very simple instructions.

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. 

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.

ehow is a great resource for just about anything you might want to learn to do.

ehow is a great resource for just about anything you might want to learn to do.

7 step guide to creating a formal business report.

I know we are only suppose to push one to the class but i also came across this online slide show from slideshare that goes into how to do writing proposals and also formal reports. It was very easy to understand and I thought it would be helpful.

This website goes over ethos, pathos, and logos. It helps me understand the readings better because it gives several examples of each concept. Ethos is ethical appeal that the author uses. Pathos is when the author trying to appeal to the readers emotions. Logos is the logic portion of writing that will begin to make sense to the reader.

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 article was very interesting to read because it talked about sensory association and how it can be used to heal people like in hospitals. Although this article is mostly geared towards interior designers, I feel like designers in new media can also use this concept to make something that help heal someone.

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)

This article describes how to tailor specific phrase in order to persuade others to agree with your arguments.This emphasizes the understanding of pathos or audience as we learned in our readings about rhetoric

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.