TWC301: Multimedia Writing

A whole site dedicated to using Wordpress! There are so many themes that it's incredibly difficult to choose!  This site suggests going through the various view options, such as the front page view, single page view, and the comments, and them comparing how each appear. Is the sidebar present in all views or just some? Does the header change, etc.? The author of this site suggests going through and investigating every aspect of the new theme. The site also lists the various layout options and also suggests that content match theme. What impression do I wish my audience to have?

This site offers 110 suggestions made by actual bloggers on how to improve a blog! While a number of them cannot be applied to my course blog (I'm not collaborating with anyone else, for example), there was still plenty of relevant advice. Even though I am given the topics to cover, I can still let my own personality come through. This relates to the course outcome of performance; a blog needs to feel like it was written by a human being and not by a robot.  I could also start adding videos that contribute to my audience's understanding. I know that the sample rhetoric on the town assignment included a video of the advertisement the student had analyzed. Another good suggestion is to break up the paragraphs, which I try to do, or use bullet points. Another blogger suggests using subheads.

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.

Repetition is visually exemplified here. A floral design in a abstract scrapbook image shows repeat squares and flower shaped images conservatively spread out.

This was my favorite of the different sites that I found on the topic of repetition. I thought that this site very closely followed what the Basic's of Design taught on the subject. The site gave a background of what repetition is and why it is important. It also gave great examples of different forms of repetition such as; repetition of a image/icon, border, or decoration. It really helped me understand why repetition is such a key component in design!

I like this article because it gives visual examples of repetition used in books, movies, and ads. 

This website has good examples of repetition and they explain it better when having an image. They have good images and good explanation.

short and sweet page, not reallly a definition but it does good job explaining what we use repetition for. It also provides a slideshow of pictures if you click on the images to give examples of differetn kinds of patterns and repetition in design

I am pushin' this one just because of the examples in the slide shows that it gives

I chose to view this website because I have used it in the past for reference. It gives you sweet and simple tips on how to improve your writing skills.

This website is something you would discover in an english class. It lays down the basic rules of using repitition in writing. It also gives you a couple different types of writing to specialize in.

This website is useful for creating websites. I searched multimedia repitition tips. I liked stumbling onto websites like this because it gives me a professionals tips.

I stumbled onto this website after seeing the proper alignment used for business cards in the reading. This website it a cool quick way to create a business card with many different templates.

This website shows you the proper alignment for business templates. It displays the Full block format as well as a modified block format. This website is simple but shows the correct way to set up a professional letter.

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This is a good website of how repetition is used.  Even though it is not clearly in the book, it focuses more on repetition in photography by emphasize and break-it.  Emphasize repetition can give impression of size and large numbers of elements in one picture.  Broken repetition can include contrast object or a focal point between the repetition objects in a picture.  

This website is an explanation balance with illustrations and text. It also incorporates the six principles of designs. This helps me relate past chapters of "Basic of Design" with the concept of balance.    

I like this page on design principals. It hits on a little bit of everything and shares some good insight on alignment. Imagine if everyone ignored the parking lines in a parking lot. The same thing comes from not using some sort of alignment grid on your design page.

Hey guys! I'm a little behind on my work and just now got my comic tutorial draft up. I wanted to see if anyone could do a peer review on it for me, seeing as we need to talk about it in our reflection. I would greatly appreciate it and would be glad to return the favor!

This website has a good basis of what alignment is and why you should use it. It states that alignment creates a sharp and more ordered design. It also says how alignment helps to have a more organiziation and order with your design elements.

I found this website useful because it shows how to create grids in a word document to help align the text. It is broken down step by step which is very useful. 

This webpage describes Horizontal, Vertical, Edge, Center, and Visual Alignment styles to create a layout that is visually pleasing. It also says that good alignment is invisible, because viewers only notice when a page is not aligned correctly.