This website focuses more on graphic design and the principle of balance rather than photography and architecture, which is what I have been bookmarking. Hope this one is as helpful!
I own this textbook and it really is my best tool for writing instructions successfully. There is no preview on Google Books, but if you are really interested, look it up at your closest library.
Part 2 helps you plan the document.
This website gave graphical representations of repetition from different aspects of design. I found the poster of the movie "The Ugly Truth" rather humorous.
Creative Commons Licenses Explained
I liked this written explaination of creative commons. It is an easy to understand read that goes a little more into depth.
This is a law cite that is simple to read and understnad what is protection what isn't and all the background reasons. Uses law mans terms and understanding.
I chose this site because it have a trackback tutorial that I needed. I thought if I needed to learn this information then maybe someone else did too. I love tutorials and I think this will be extremely helpful.
This is a great resource for plugins. Since I am new to Wordpress I felt this is a great resource to get my page up and running with cool plugins. Since I am a blogger.com blogger I need resources to help me get started creatively with Wordpress.
The use of repitition in words and how to make it sound like it is not repitition. How to make it interesting and not borrow. How ro use it rhetorically.
Gestalt is
also known as the "Law of Simplicity" or the "Law of Pragnanz"
(the entire figure or configuration), which states that every stimulus is
perceived in its most simple form.
Gestalt theorists followed
the basic principle that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In
other words, the whole (a picture, a car) carried a different and altogether
greater meaning than its individual components (paint, canvas, brush; or tire,
paint, metal, respectively). In viewing the "whole," a cognitive
process takes place – the mind makes a leap from comprehending the parts to
realizing the whole,
This
principle shows our perceptual tendency to separate whole figures from their
backgrounds based on one or more of a number of possible variables, such as
contrast, color, size, etc.
Tips
Clearly differentiate between figure and
ground in order to focus attention and minimize perceptual confusion.
Camouflage
Camouflage is the deliberate alteration of
figure-ground so that the figure blends into the ground.
2.
Similarity
Gestalt
theory states that things which share visual characteristics such as shape,
size, color, texture, or value will be seen as belonging together in the
viewer’s mind.
3.
Proximity
The Gestalt law of
proximity states that "objects or shapes that are close to one another
appear to form groups". Even if the shapes, sizes, and objects are
radically different, they will appear as a group if they are close together.
4.
Closure
The satisfaction of a pattern
encoded, as it were, into the brain, thus triggering recognition of the
stimulus. This can involve the brain's provision of missing details thought to
be a part of a potential pattern, or, once closure is achieved, the elimination
of details unnecessary to establish a pattern match.
5. Good
Continuation
(Continuity)
This Gestalt law states
that learners "tend to continue shapes beyond their ending points".
6. Symmetry
or Order
If an object is
asymmetrical, the viewer will waste time trying to find the problem instead of
concentrating on the instruction.
I found a few websites that had good info on Repetition. I like this one as it s pretty straight forward. I gives nice, easy to understand examples of each type of repetition it is reviewing.