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This website has a short and sweet explanation for all of the elements and principles of design, which I feel like will come in handy later on when/if I need to quickly review some basic differences between the few of them. This page specifically focuses on the importance of value.

This site gives a breif, but interesting description of value.

This link is for our 2nd projects. If you are looking for a couple tips on how to proceed, check this page out.

CHAPTER4- BALANCE This website dives into the principle of balance and the different types. It also explains what can influence balance. (size, texture, orientation, etc.)

An article about balance in visual design that has a break down of different elements of balance.

"Balance is the equal distribution of visual weight in a design. "

I really like this website because it explains different type of alignment. I like that you can move your cursor over objects and the invisible alignment shows.

explains the basic types of alignment and continues to explain it in full with very detailed examples.

Alignment is one of those obvious design concepts that hardly seem worth making a big deal about. << Explains the importance of alignment. 

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 site gives complete tutorials on several wordpress functions.

This site gives complete tutorials on several wordpress functions. The site offers 26 different step by step design and layout tutorials. These tutorials teach you how to design unique and fun layouts for your blog and website.

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

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

I was a little confused about copywriting from the text but this website helped me understand some of the formulas and what to focus on: headlines Push Chapter 1

Chapter 3: Tying into contrast with color -- a series of links to check the accessibility of your website and make sure the contrast is appropriate/functional.

This is a really really good website that talks about the design element of balance. It not only gives good definitions about the different types of balance, it also provides very good pictures that clearly demonstrate what balance is and how it is used in art as well as graphic design.

This page gives a good definition of the principle of balance and gives good examples.

This site gave some great additional insights into how balance can be used in design. It was nice to get another perspective in addition to the book. It explained it effectively and in simpler terms. Definitely worth the read!

The OWL at Purdue, Purdue Online Writing Lab How to write email to different recipients, responding, continuing email conversation and more

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.

I like this website because it describes repetition in detail. I like the examples it has as well. Also, I like on the sidebar how you can go to other principles of design.

This has a few quick visual examples of good use of repetition or causing chaos in repetition.

Ch 7-BoD Flow This site illustrates the concept of visual movement of flow in web design. The picture shown on the page provides hands-on examples of visual elements through text blocks which create "flow."

CHAPTER 7:FLOW This site gives tons of examples of great flow in websites and I found it very helpful in brainstorming ideas for project 2.

This site has lots of great examples it critiques after a breif summary of flow.

I think this is interesting coming from people who develop and release email software what they find appropriate and deem 'good' to do in a business related email setting.

This was my favorite website out of all the one that I came across. This list was very well put together and it is presented in a very professional manner.

The best tip given is to not use email to avoid personal contact. Face to face time with a person is valuable and most of the time allows for better communication understanding.

CHAPTER 6-REPETITION I liked this site because it showed examples of repetition using websites and I thought it was very fitting to look at for project 2

This site is awesome! It's dedicated to galvanizing design elements, trends, and problems in web design.  However, it not only makes the audience aware of the problems, it offers solutions on how to effectively fix design/elemental misuse issues.