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This site gives great insight to the elements of design in regards to contrast and gives excellent visual examples. Even though the website is for a painter the same principles in designing paintings can and do apply to other forms of design.

This John Lovett site gives you an overview on all elements and principles of design, including contrast. The website is interactive because there are lessons on everything from how to use watercolors to improving tonal contrast.

The page is about how to create a proper web design using emphasis.

This website shows how a web designer can effectively develop emphasis in a web page. This web page can be used as an instruction guide for a web designer create emphasis in their web pages.

This page is about 25 different examples of emphasis

25 Examples of Emphasis Applied in Web Design

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.

Crucial elements in using emphasis to design

Alignment as an effective web design principle allows us to make conscious decisions about how and where elements are placed on the page.

really effective definition as well as a bunch of great images illustrating the different types of alignment.

You may or may not be aware but alignment is such an integral part of most website design that you probably do not even realize it is there; it sits in the background, hidden as an initial design element. << Reinforces that alignment is more important than it seems.

pretty decent introduction to contrast.  Has many different examples and goes through size, shape, color, and position.

A website that can be seen as the home depot for web design as it has everything web design related.

Breaks down contrast types size, color, etc

"Proper alignment of elements and text on your website greatly impact the overall design."

A different kind of video resume.  This website allows companies to email potential employees questions and then asks them to answer them using a webcam and submit the responses.  The employer can then watch the 'interview' whenever they have time.

This website discusses the types of font that most often work well in web design

Website that can be used for people who just can't decide which font works best.  It compares three fonts side-by-side to allow the user to see which font they like the best.

This website shows great examples of Sulhouette photos.

"Repetition works with pattern to make the artwork seem active. " This website offers a brief explanation of every element of design

This website explains you how to crop images and the common mistakes that people make.

The entire website is about emphasis on design with minimum words and lots of pictures!

this website goes over all the elements of design.  Probably the coolest part to me is the amount of repetition they use in each description.

Why people are being charged for Wi-Fi. I thought this was an interested website.

Creative Commons website

Remediation is used in music to refashion live versions of media. The live version is recreated and multiplied, creating a studio and synthesized final version of the product.

This website provided a great run down on the book Remediation and the theory behind it. It was a great supplement to the reading and really helped me further my understanding of it. Remediation is something that is constantly going on around us, and is very important to understand. It is the driving force for the progress of our media.

This source details immediacy, hypermediacy and remediation.

Blog that breaks down the important terms of this week's reading by Bolter and Grusin

This website helped me to better understand the definitions of immediacy, hypermedia, and remediation. It sort of broke down the terms a little bit better than in the reading for me.

Repeating in writing is not a good nor effective idea. Repetition in designs always the best way to design.

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