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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Zack Hill

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Digital Rhetoric/Remediation and Remix - Wikibooks, open books for an open world - 0 views

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    REMEDIATION. This is a fun wikibook that breaks down the complex idea of Digital Remediation It gives a brief history of it and its impact on the web and justifies the significance of recognizing its influence.
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Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music - 0 views

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    REMEDIATION. Pandora is one of the most primary examples of how remediation is alive and well in today's digital society. It's a site that has taken the radio and placed it essentially in the listeners' hands with the ability to skip songs they don't like and build stations around songs/artists that they tend to favor.
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Resume Tube | Video Resume | Resume Videos | Video Job Resume - 0 views

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    VIDEO RESUME. Resumetube is a website that allows businessmen and women to upload their visual resumes. This is a good place to start to see sample video resumes. 
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How To Write A Formal Report - 0 views

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    FORMAL REPORTS. This website gives good advice as to how to construct a proper formal report. That might be redundant. 
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Email Etiquette: 101 Email Etiquette Tips - 0 views

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    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. 
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http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-34-turkle.pdf - 0 views

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    MANOVICH. This essay makes a case, as it were, for video games as a viable new media and defends them against stereotyped ideas that consider video games to be pointless and a waste of time. 
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Peachpit: Optimizing Flow in Web Design > On Flow and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - 0 views

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    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. 
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ELI7023.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    CREATIVE COMMONS. This PDF tells, for those who are better absorbing information by reading it rather than seeing a cute video, more about what the creative commons is, who it's being done by, and how it can be applied to our lives.
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NHS Designs - Design Principles - Repetition - 0 views

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    REPETITION. This website gives a lot of great pointers about repetition and how it makes various media look better when properly employed. 
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How To Create Your Own Wordpress Theme With No Coding Skills Whatsoever - 0 views

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    WORDPRESS. This website shows you how to make your own wordpress theme using an application called Lubith. This seems like it's a really cool and useful tool in conjunction with wordpress.
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10 WordPress 'HOW-TO' - 0 views

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    WORDPRESS. This site gives 10 useful and unique tips/tricks to update the wordpress blog. Most of it is coding but the site seems to be able to hold your hand while it instructs you how to make your blog your own.
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The Brads - Alignment in Design - 0 views

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    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. 
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Balance in Design » General, Layout » Design Festival - 0 views

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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.
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Design View / Andy Rutledge - Contrast and Meaning - 0 views

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    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. 
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http://www.myinkblog.com/2009/03/21/4-principles-of-good-design-for-websites/ - 0 views

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    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. 
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Students' Strategies for Writing Instructions - 0 views

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    This is a rather lengthy article, but it provides good insight into why we write instructions and how to effectively do so. I think this article will help me with the project because I like thinking about the cognitive processes behind reading what is writtena nd I hope to incorporate some of the article's information into the project.
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Understanding Visual Hierarchy in Web Design - 0 views

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    This site also breaks down visual hierarchy and illustrates its points with easy to follow graphics and designs.
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dafont.com - 0 views

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    Website with various fonts that you could use to emphasize a video, slideshow, flyer, etc, with. User-friendly and free!
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Visual Hierarchy: How Well Does Your Design Communicate? | Van SEO Design - 0 views

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    This website deals primarily with the concept of the visual hierarchy and goes into great detail how it is used to emphasize various aspects of a website or layout.
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"Flow" in a Website | Web Design, Web Strategies and Internet Marketing - 0 views

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    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.
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