TWC301: Multimedia Writing

Found this to be useful. However many plug-ins require your own hosting account.

Similar to the other site I shared, this provides plugins, not just tips. It is also organized into easy to ready categories and provides plenty of links!

The author: Anthony Jones gives a straight forward approach to Alignment in design and elaborates on each concept which reinforces the concepts from the reading

Found some pretty good ideas here. haha

Don't argue with it... hiring someone to write for you would be something about not thinking it twice.

I found pretty good ideas here. Which I am already doing such as participating in other blogs but not as frequently as I should be. Also, inviting people into my blog might help to raise its popularity. Also, uploading a video or something that can be heard or appreciated with you eyes might help as well.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-make-my-site-professional This website is like a blog that other users were talking in and I felt like it gave me some great ideas to make it more professional http://www.thewphowto.com/blog/wordpress-categories/wordpress-how-to-change-the-uncategorized-category-and-look-more-professional This website shows the same things, but the also have images in them. I am a visual learner so this helped a lot!

You have to check this site out it is the 10 worst page layouts. Shows great examples of bad alignment.

Basic information on page alignment and grid use.

Basic and simple steps to improve. Helped me to undersand what a widget is. I need basic information this is all new to me.

This resource has a huge amount of information and links to help with blogging. I don't know specifically what you can and cannot do in WordPress, so i am not sure how much is relevant. It all seems to be pretty universal from what i read so this should help.

This website is a blogging resource specific to WordPress. That will certainly be a good resource. There are many others out there that may not pertain to WordPress. With this class I am brand new to blogging to this should help me.

I picked this website for its design elements of Alignment. As it turns out this is a website for a website design firm. The grid format with two main columns is nice and the graphic in the center is great. In the text of the two columns they chose to use Flush Left justification. I think that with the graphic they may have been better off using Runaround. They are the professionals so maybe they know better.

Shows examples of balance in different layouts. Demonstrates symmetry and asymmetry.

A website that has Balance. Good use of outlined frames and balances well. The positioning of the frames, some in front of others helps to achieve the balance. Having the title frame out in front helps balance the smaller frames on the left with the larger one on the right.

Smashing Magazine explains divine proportion and the rule of thirds, how to apply both of them directly to your designs.  This site even gives a brief intro to the Renaissance and how they achieved their golden ratio of proportion.

Defines why asymmetrical design is most important since it creates more flexibility.  Demonstrates design using one, two and three column grids.  Incorporates side bars with asymmetrical grids which is said to be one of the most popular layout of asymmetrical.

This magazine has a lot of really neat examples of contrast like the ones that were touched on in chapter three. There is a lot of black and white used in the pictures and light and dark shades. the titles of the names are in very contrasting colors such as red on black and white, or white on darker colors. This seems like a very cool magazine for artists and designers to look through.