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Goes in depth about balance and gives great examples

I really liked this page, like the last one I posted for contrast this website goes into detail about each kind of balance and gives a picture example of each. It makes it really easy to understand seeing a web page picture or ad, which is what we mostly work with so it makes it easier to understand by showing pictures we relate to.

Here is another article about balance in web design! This article is more focused on designing for your audience. It defines the types of balance as: horizontal, vertical, radial, symmetrical and asymmetrical. Each type of balance has examples from the web accompanied by a short description of how balance is achieved in each unique way. The article goes into the properties of balance as well, and has examples from the web to help define them.

Here is an article about alignment in web design. It goes into detail about the meaning of alignment and even some history about it. This article contains a lot of helpful advice if your looking for ways to improve your alignment while designing for the web.

D6 HW1- Don't be fooled by the Rhythm instead of repetition, this website does talk about using repeating items or patterns to bring unity and motion to the design. This website takes more realistic visual aides as examples. Helping to apply the pronciples of repetition to a busier, and more typical, design.

This website gives us 25 cool ways to put emphasis in our blogs. It also leads you to a link where Patrick (author) wrote an article on developing emphasis in web design.

Here is an article on emphasis used in webdesign. It has 25 different examples of emphasis used in various webpages and it explains how it is used in each example as well. If you are into web design its a pretty interesting article.

A page on teaching what design flow is and how it works. Teaches you how to keep the reader's eye and make them follow the 'flow'.

This is a good website to help you understand what flow is and the different types of flow. It talks about verbal flow and visual flow. It also goes on to explain how to improve your verbal flow and your visual flow.

This webpage incorporates more details about many key aspects of flow that were also mentioned in chapter seven. There are tips to improving visual and verbal flow within a page and also how to add flow across an entire site involving many pages.

This website displays very clear contrast in font types between the "We Love The Web" and the other fonts for the clickable objects. Size and color contrast are also used being that the whole site is the same color except for the important links that the designer wants you to focus on.

This is a useful site which tells me about the security of this site. This is the reason why I use fake name for many of these programs and release very little personal information. Several of the other sites talk about upgrades of this program with plugins. This site advises against it and how to set up stronger passwords and not to link personal MySQL server to connect remotely if working on a project with another computer. So updated security is essential and avoiding 3rd party plugins can be important.

One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is because of its flexibility. Designers, developers, and bloggers have plenty of options. In this post we'll look at a combination of tutorials for improving a WordPress-based site, and plugins that can provide added functionality that will bring new possibilities. Tutorials: Build a Featured Posts Section for WordPress Magazine themes are becoming increasingly popular. There are plenty of quality premium themes available, and also some decent free magazine themes, but you may want to build or customize your own. This tutorial covers the process of coding the index.php file to set up a magazine-style front page with a featured post section. - if you're willing to download all the plugins that are available from this site, you can really have the wordpress site look awesome and provide a lot more options.

This page has it all! Aside from just telling an explaining what we can do it provides screenshots so we get an idea of the "trick" to see is we might want it. This offers help anywhere from blog rolls to navigation to addding sideshows and tabs to your page. VERY resourceful.

This article is good because it provides tutorials on how to improve your blog.  For example, there are descent free magazines themes or you can build your own.  Also it gives techniques for seo and plug ins.  

This website is full of information on every kind of media out there. It has photography, social media, advertising, and even an article on the basics of visual design. It talks about the importance of shapes and colors and what the different ones mean.

An awesome website which goes into great depth about the importance of having a concept and how to create your concept based on your audience.

Should be visually appealing and set up a mood. The design should make you smile or craving the new item on Starbucks' menu.