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BALANCE. This website expands more on how one can achieve balance in a layout, specifically with symmetrical and asymmetrical balancing. It also provides examples of each balancing act to highlight the methods described in the website.

ALIGNMENT. This is a really fun, quirky little comic that gives pointers about alignment on pages and documents. It's rather interesting in the way it presents its information. 

This website gives great examples and dialog on the principles of alignment in graphic design. It shows examples on right, left, and center alignment.

Shows photo examples of alignment.

This blog post talks about what this particular person believes achieves "flow" in a website and the benefits of having a website that flows very nicely. He even provides an example of a website that he did in the blog.

this website talks about the many emphasis techniques especially for online text

CONTRAST. This website also deals a lot with what contrast is but it mostly highlights why it's necessary for a format to have contrast in it. I like this website a lot and think that it's very straight to the point and concise with its purpose. 

This is a good website that is ran by the government that talks all about copyright and the rules and regulations and the process for how to get a copyright. This is very good resource.

Government's copyright office.

FLOW. This page talks specifically about the concept of flow and how designers can optimize it in their websites. I like this site because of the fact that it cites actual research done and how it clearly breaks down what designers need to do in order to achieve flow. 

NETIQUETTE. The title of the website says it all. 101 Email Etiquette tips for various parts/types of emails, including format, attachments, forwarding, cc'ing and bcc'ing, etc. Very useful. 

New Media: This is Wikipedia's definition of new media, in which accessibility and interactive abilities are prominent factors. This page provides a history and definition of the term and includes the various uses and effects of new media.

Defines new media and has links to further define key words in definition. Links you to our scholars write about new media, even Manovich.

"New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century which refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content." This is a quick and easy resource to reference new media.