TWC301: Multimedia Writing

D#13 HW#1--push fave web resource that will help you improve your Wordpress course blog: **This is a good one because it extrapolates on the "design" portion of a blog. It indicates what turns people off about blogs and how they can be more attractive design-wise. For instance uploading your photo is a big plus. It's a Do's and Don'ts on blog design so to speak.

This was my second favorite of the sites that I visited. This site shows the design mistakes that bloggers often make. It haves ten mistakes, explains why they are mistakes and weaknesses. I found this all very helpful, and I found it to be a very useful list of 'rules' to help one make a successful blog.

This article is my favorite because not only does it give helpful information on how to use balance in graphic design, but it also provides great examples too.

DD #4 HW #1 This article has great information about design with very nice examples. Some of it I was surprised that they were talking about balance because I didn't really see it that way but in reading about it, it makes more sense! I thought this was great information.

This gives a good thorough overview of design and how it's not just about symmetry, but about color and design balance. It also gives specific picture examples of each and how they balance each other.

DD #4 HW #1 The descriptions of balance were very good in this article, I especially how balance was compared to a see-saw. In reading these descriptionsthough, it makes me think that my Rhetorical article was asymmetrical not symmetrical. Guess I'll have to read over and make sure I am thinking the correct way!

DD# 4 HW#1 Although this is a short reading on not just balance but writing/creating an effective poster I thought it was a very good one and gave some great ideas to follow. For example, we are taught to read from top to bottom and from left to right and you shouldn't go against the grain when creating your poster.

This website helps with key words and structures when using repetition in writing. Main topics include repetition of words, sentence structures and extended repetition. Overall you will achieve cohesiveness for your writing.

A principle of repetition is gestalt. Gestalt means unified as a whole. This website outlines the techniques of gestalt including similarity, continuation, closure, figure/ground, proximity, etc.

Information website that demonstrates figures of speech with repetition. It's main topics are general terms for repetition, repetition of letters, symbols, sounds, clause, phrases and ideas. This site is very helpful for writing techniques of repetition.

This gave me another example and better understanding of how centered alignment can be used and can incorporate symmetry.

This website will help many of us with project 2. There are great tip on alignment, which is very important in a web page layout.

This website gives some good information on different types of alignment and how it can be used. It compares the importance of alignment in the real world and how it can be used in design. This website also demonstrates the importance of a clean cut design in order to be less distracting.

This is my favorite becaue it is a teaching site. It has a wonderful way of explaining the different desing elements. There are tutorials and various design strategies to use to get a very creative piece of work.

While I was reading the book I wanted to learn more about the gestalt law of perception. I decided to search for it and this is one of the sites that I came upon. The term "gestalt" is kind of the psychological term to describe tools like figure, proximity, closure, continuation, and similarity to bring unity (repetition) to design. It is kind of a neat article about how we can figure out how to make great designs by finding out how we perceive things. I think this concept can be used to my advantage when designing for particular audiences

I think this website has a repetitive element again, because the TFS acronym is right next to the spelt out "The Fashion Spot" on the site.

This website demonstrates repetition because it repeats the logo twice, right next to each other - just in different sizes.

I enjoyed this website because it gives good clear images of the way to use alignment and how to manipulate images so they are placed in alignment .

The article uses pictures to describe how to use verticle alignment and horizontal alignment. This is a good example of how grids are used to ensure correct alignment with drawings and not just multiple page designs. I believe this shows that alignment is important in visuals.

D#5, HW#1- I enjoyed this website for multiple reasons. First of all, I enjoy websites that start off defining the design element. In this case, alignment. Then, it continues on with examples of documents and even different real life examples including the benefits of the alignment changes. It compares before images with the after images just like the book does also.

This website gives you a quick to the point examples and definitions to the term of "alignment". So if you aren't looking for alot of fluff this is a good to look at

I enjoyed how this website was well organized, aligned and designed. It attracted me by the various examples and way that she set each different topic apart. Even though this page is for scrapbookers, it gave good information including examples of alignment. It gives a great example of connecting alignment which gives strength to your design.

This website has a 3 grid design but the middle column is wider than the other two. I think this organizes the page well.