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In chapter one they include features and benefit lists to help realize what you are offering and how it will help your target audience. This website adds to this tip by explaining how important it is to know what the main benefits of your page are. It is geared more toward marketing and sales but I think it is still relevant to what we are learning.

Web site contains basic understanding of balance and all principle elements of design.

This website gives you the idea of composition and design principles that helps you understand the effect repetition in a design. There are several ways to use repetition in a design. Repetition gives motion so it can be used in all designs that have visual element.

This website was very informative and gave many examples demonstrating how to incorporate visual elements within page design. It also defines and describes design principles, many of which match up with the principles listed in Chapter 1 of our book on pages 12 and 13.

This website talks about the most important navigation options to have on your blog, which I am currently lacking.

This section addresses the fundamental themes of page layout and design:

I like this article because it gives you examples on how to use repetition in graphic design. The examples are listed using bullet points which makes it easy to read. 

This website offers some suggestions of the types of elements that can be repeated. Heading and subheading styles, for example, can be varied bu using different colors, stronger fonts, or larger font sizes. A consistent overall color scheme can also help unify a page; this site suggests selecting a few key colors and then applying that throughout the project. Quote I liked: "Repetitive elements create a sense of organization. The effect is the same as using a consistent unit of measurement - it helps interpret the meaning of the object under consideration, and it helps to identify all elements as part of the same site." (Or page/project).

a few good tips about repetition, plus lots of tutorials on other related topics.

This page explains contrast and its importance when creating visual interest. It discusses examples of contrast in web page design and how contrast in color, size, and alignment can be achieved.

Here is another article about contrast in web design from WDL. This article is much like the first I shared as it uses various webpages as examples to illustrate the various types of contrast.

This is a great website that highlights the different aspects of contrast, including alignment, color, and size. It also gives examples of how each of these are used.

This article is one of my favorites because it does more than just tell you how to use contrast but it explains why it is important. It discusses the benefits of using contrast in relevance to web and ad design.  This article is easy to read by its use of number lists and bolded headings. 

I liked this website a lot as well. Instead of showing ways in which how to use contrast, it explains three ways that contrast is important. One is that contrast is attractive to the eye, the other is that contrast aids in organization of info, and finally contrast creates focus. A key point that was made that I think is good to emphasize is that "contrast elements should be COMPLETELY different, not just a little bit"

This website gives very nice examples and pictures that help explain the contrast principle. I love how attractive to the eye all the images are.

I think this is an interesting page because it actually tells us what people hate to see on video resumes. This is important to know what to avoid when creating the video resume.

This page gives a list of things that people hate about video resumes.

10 Things We Hate About Video Resumes | interviewstudioblog.com

A truly useful document that will be beneficial in the process of writing my Formal report. It is a packet created by Western Ontario University. It breaks down the different sections that comprise a formal report. It also describes how to approach the formal report and what it is. I found it to be extremely useful. 

This very descriptive document gives students all of the details necessary succeed in writing a formal document that meets the needs of the audience and purpose of the writer.

6 page PDF file A report is a fact-based piece of writing which sets out a problem and the possible solutions to that problem, in a highly organized way. Some reports are short and informal and cover topics like accidents, incidents that happened in a plant, an inspection visit or a small project that has been completed.

This site is my favorite of all three that I found because it is a helpful checklist to use after you have written a formal report.