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D#1, HW#13 I really enjoyed this website for a couple different reasons. First of all, the design process is similar to that in the book, but yet it has a different approach because it is for an architectural piece, instead of a web site or banner for example. I also enjoyed it because it is not only a list of the concepts for the designer process, but it is also the steps that this particular architectural design teams uses and wants to share with their customers. This shows those customers that they have a structured plan and as a customer you can know where you are in the time line of your design and build process. Although the design process is not exactly the same as the book, it uses the same concepts from beginning with a blank page and sketching out ideas, to ending with details helping to make the project personal to the audience.

One designer's commentary on design and explanation of his design processes. I like this site because it gives explanations of the design process with good visual examples as well as offers pointers on things to avoid when designing. This particular article has a good explanation of the process of copywriting. It's cool to see the designer's process - from brainstorm, to thumbnails, to final published product - alongside his explanation of it.

This site specifically relates to graphic design, but still demonstrates design basics. It looks at such things as target audiences and knowing the message you want to send.

This site demonstrates the process of design basics. It specifically refers to graphic design, and shows the importance of knowing your target audience and the message you want to send.

This web page discusses the graphic design process, a concept discussed on pages 14 and 15 of Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

This article relates to Chapter 1 of "Basic of Design". It reinforces the 6 steps for a design and gives an in depth example for every step. It helps you analyze and create a purpose; provides you with brainstorming rules to successfully jot down your ideas without judgement; it helps you go through a selection process which relates to thumbnail sketches and comp, etc. 

This article is about the Design Process. There are steps you should follow in order to achieve the best results. This article outlines those steps and explains them. The steps are: Gather Information, Create and Outline, Harness your creativity, Sketch and Wireframe, Design multiple versions and revise.

This website was interesting because it breaks down the process of designing a flyer into simple steps. Flyers were used as models for graphic design on pages 16 and 17 of Lisa Graham's Basics of Design Layout & Typography for Beginners: Second Edition.

D#1 HW# 13 This website shows tons of different ways to consider the design process. If you can't find one you like and understand, it is probably time to create your own!

This website goes into detail about the process of laying out projects, such as in this case brochures for your business or hotel maybe. The website goes into detail about what you can do to keep the readers attention in the page and what you have to say by appearance and how things are laid out and grouped together. In any design process this is the most important part because you must figure out how to capture the readers attention as well as maintain their attention. This website does a wonderful job at taking you through that process step by step.

This site just gives us a deeper description of what a comprehensive is. Comps are the last part of the design process. This part of the process is what takes the most creativity and brings life to the project. Comps are very important in designs.

This was the most helpful site.

The design process put to work when creating a logo.

I really like this article because it explains the design process in an easy way that anyone can understand. I like how the article breaks the process into steps and how it uses bullets and lists to make reading and understanding the content of the article easier. 

This website begins with a description of the steps in the design process. It covers all of the ones that were also in our textbook such as analyzing audience, determining purpose of message, choosing the right format and layout. There were only four principles covered in this website which were those of balance, emphasis, rhythm which we can consider as flow, and unity which we can consider to be alignment. -What i liked about this website is that it offered explanations about the elements of design such as lines, shapes, and colors. I liked that it gave us the table on the "Psychology of color". It will be very useful especially when we think about the objective and audience of the message.

This website provided useful tips about the elements of design such as color, lines, and shapes that will be helpful when beginning to design. It will also help when considering who your target audience is and what the objective is!

 Although visually pretty dry, has a pretty comprehensive treatment of design basics.

The main concept in CH1 identifies the importance of the design process through various steps. This site specifies web site building application and how to make it simple for the average viewer.

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.  

Interactive Design This website gives you a cool step by step process on creating interactive websites. It gives you information all the way from defining a website to navigating through one. I will definitely come back to this site to make my work a little but more interesting.