ENGL307: Digital Writing

CHAPTER 5:ALIGNMENT I liked this website because it shows how alignment is used in web page layouts which i think would be very helpful in this class and in this digital age

WORDPRESS This youtube video shows how to create and edit pages. I found this interesting because I have never utlized the pages option before only the posts

WORDPRESS This website gives the top 5 wordpress video tutorials. I found it very informative and the videos ranged from getting started to password-protecting a post to adding a blogroll.

This site gives you 13 different plug ins to improve your wordpress blog.

Balance is one of the important points the success of a design. Everyone loves the convenience to what they see. Balance in graphic design can be achieved by adjusting the visual weight of each element, both in terms of scale, color, contrast, etc.

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.

CHAPTER 4- I liked this website the best because it displayed all the ways you can create balance in a work. You can do it by value, color, shape, texture, etc. I also liked that it explained the horizontal axis.

JayDax website is developed by a husband wife team, (John and Shelia Chapman) http://www.jaydax.co.uk/lastsupper/lastsupper.htm Rhetorical Analysis: This is a painting of the Last Supper painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. The purpose of this painting is to depicting the scripture in the Gospel of John 13:21,, in the Holy Bible. The targeted audiences are people who are Christians, artist, bible and historian scholars. Understanding the individuals in the painting are biblical, namely Jesus Christ in center of painting establishes a portion of the targeted audience, and the fact that it is a well known painting of Da Vinci establishes the art and historian scholar audience. Design Analysis: The painting is very good example of visual weight. Both symmetrical and asymmetrical balanced are use. Jesus is centered as well as the arch in the center of the table and the apostles are depicted on both sides of Jesus using symmetrical balance. When examining the table setting of the food symmetrical balance is used. Other examples of symmetrical balance are the rear windows, the gridded ceiling. All of these examples convey the definition of symmetrical as history, dignity, and formality. Asymmetrical balance in seen in the arches, one side is colored in and on side white space is used providing contrast and visual weight. Although the panels on the wall are symmetrical the contrast used on the left side provides an unequal, asymmetrical, balance.

BoD Chapter 4: I really like this site because it provides visual examples for all styles of balance.

Ch 5-BOD Alignment This page illustrates what alignment is and provides a hands-on approach to understanding this method of design in documentation.

"How-to" WordPress Blog This site provides several video tutorials about WordPress that covers many questions that an initial user may have about the blog site. Some of the videos include themes, getting started, installation and so much more!

"How-to" WordPress Blog This site gives a series of videos on how to operate WordPress Blog, specifically the administrative features of the blog site.

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This is a neat office website help guide to using and setting grids in MW 2007. I found it pretty useful.

I found this video helpful because I didn't realize there were different websites you could go to to get page layouts. It is a nice tutorial and very simple to follow.

Goes a little into the design principle of alignment. Then Gives three different samples of these things.

Shows you how to use HTML when it comes to image alignment. 

This is a GREAT thing for our blogs. It shows your different plug-ins for our blogs. Plug-in's are always very difficult to install but this makes it very easy to understand different plug-ins.

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. 

Videos to do almost anything you want in wordpress

gives you lots of different "how-to's" the dashboard, admin bar, posting, images...

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