- Color Symbolism
- Color in Motion (Claudia Cortes' M.A. thesis, interactive introduction to color theory and symbolism--video on primary & complimentary colors approximately 10 minutes)
- Ponyter Institute Interactive Installation; "Color, Contrast, & Dimension in News Design" (Very cool physiological section, interesting activities (such as modify the colors on a magazine cover, rich discussion of contrast with exmamples and exercises)
- "Color Meanings and Colors that Go Together" (Jacci Howard Bear article on About.com--particularly helpful if you are attempting to identify the meaning of a specific color)
- Color Wheel Pro Easily digestible introduction, discusses different hues of the same color and basic symbology.
- Color Palettes
- Adam Polselli (Color palettes, see especially "Get The Look" for sample palletes accompanied with "personality" explications)
- "Choosing Color Combinations" (article from Design In-Flight, contains helpful links)
Jan 31, 2008
color theory resources!
Jan 30, 2008
Web Design Book Chapter 6
This chapter will probably be the most help to me because it really lays out the basic but important elements to an effective webpage. The similiest changes can really be the difference between a good and bad page. I really agree with the contrast element. My eyes are directed to the most contrasted image or text on a page, so the element that I want everyone to see first should be bigger than the rest and contrast to the background of the page. Proximity and consistency were also important to realize. I can recall a number of instances where I thought I had entered a totally different site and couldn't navigate my way back to where I started. By having a navigation tool always at the left or top and having the logo in the same place on each page, navigation can be easy and I wouldn't get frustrated getting lost within a site. As I build my own webpage, this chapter will be an easy reference for me to double check to ensure that I follow the simple guidelines that can make my site better and run more efficiently.
My idea for my webpage would be to take my White Paper Project on identity theft and transform it into digital text. This paper was about the dangers of identity theft and how you can prevent it. It will be a reference-type website for businesses who want to ensure that they are following the correct steps for the safety of their employees, customers, and themselves. I plan on using images, diagrams, and maybe some graphs to split up the text. The color of my site would be a serious, professional tone, so there will be little bright or sassy colors on the site (like pink, orange, or lime green), unless I use them for contrast. Since in my White Paper Project, I choose to represent a business who helped companies prevent identity theft, I would create a logo that would also show on each page. I am very open to suggestions at this point as I try to lay out what material I will be transforming and how I will do that.
My idea for my webpage would be to take my White Paper Project on identity theft and transform it into digital text. This paper was about the dangers of identity theft and how you can prevent it. It will be a reference-type website for businesses who want to ensure that they are following the correct steps for the safety of their employees, customers, and themselves. I plan on using images, diagrams, and maybe some graphs to split up the text. The color of my site would be a serious, professional tone, so there will be little bright or sassy colors on the site (like pink, orange, or lime green), unless I use them for contrast. Since in my White Paper Project, I choose to represent a business who helped companies prevent identity theft, I would create a logo that would also show on each page. I am very open to suggestions at this point as I try to lay out what material I will be transforming and how I will do that.
Jan 29, 2008
NWDB Chs. 3 & 4
Madison Ultis
January 29, 2008
Although there wasn't much to chapter 3 except laying out the basics of how to go about designing a web page, I thought it was interesting, because I have absolutely no idea how to even begin. I look at the blank Dreamweaver screen and get pretty overwhelmed, which is interesting, because not much on the computer alienates me. This chapter definitely got me excited, though, about the different things I could create online. I think it's going to be very cool to take something that I created on paper, and convert it to something on the web where people can navigate through in a different way than just turning the page. I know that I would prefer to have Dreamweaver or FrontPage do all the coding for me...I think this will alleviate any stress or added frustration to learning web design. I do think that if this is something that I end up doing pretty well, then I would try to take on learning codes, etc...but for now, I'll just stick with letting them do it for me. In terms of all the other things they went through, such as layering, graphics, text boxes, that is all stuff that seems so foreign to me still, but I am excited to see if I can really do this!
I liked chapter 4 because I liked being able to figure out what I need to do before getting started. Again, I think it did a nice job of laying out important things to remember when starting a web page. Luckily, my fiance is a web designer/graphic designer and he works from home, so the last few months I've watched him create websites, and it's definitely interesting and takes a lot of time and work. Some of the stuff seems kind of tedious. In terms of hosting a site, and all that, I am fairly familiar because we own a few different domain names through godaddy.com. My fiance sees it as an investment, so I am somewhat familiar with the idea of hosting a site.
Overall I found the reading to be worthwhile because it gave me an idea of what we would be diving into first.
January 29, 2008
Although there wasn't much to chapter 3 except laying out the basics of how to go about designing a web page, I thought it was interesting, because I have absolutely no idea how to even begin. I look at the blank Dreamweaver screen and get pretty overwhelmed, which is interesting, because not much on the computer alienates me. This chapter definitely got me excited, though, about the different things I could create online. I think it's going to be very cool to take something that I created on paper, and convert it to something on the web where people can navigate through in a different way than just turning the page. I know that I would prefer to have Dreamweaver or FrontPage do all the coding for me...I think this will alleviate any stress or added frustration to learning web design. I do think that if this is something that I end up doing pretty well, then I would try to take on learning codes, etc...but for now, I'll just stick with letting them do it for me. In terms of all the other things they went through, such as layering, graphics, text boxes, that is all stuff that seems so foreign to me still, but I am excited to see if I can really do this!
I liked chapter 4 because I liked being able to figure out what I need to do before getting started. Again, I think it did a nice job of laying out important things to remember when starting a web page. Luckily, my fiance is a web designer/graphic designer and he works from home, so the last few months I've watched him create websites, and it's definitely interesting and takes a lot of time and work. Some of the stuff seems kind of tedious. In terms of hosting a site, and all that, I am fairly familiar because we own a few different domain names through godaddy.com. My fiance sees it as an investment, so I am somewhat familiar with the idea of hosting a site.
Overall I found the reading to be worthwhile because it gave me an idea of what we would be diving into first.
journals and sites that use hypertext
Pre/text: a hypertext journal of rhetorical theory
Kairos: another academic journal on technology, rhetoric, and teaching.
Enculturation: hypertext academic journal on rhetoric
Insomnia: hypertext poem
Translation example 1
Kairos: another academic journal on technology, rhetoric, and teaching.
Enculturation: hypertext academic journal on rhetoric
Insomnia: hypertext poem
Translation example 1
Response To Chapters 3 and 4
While reading the latest assignments, nostalgia was brought about gazing at the pages of code. It amazes me how the complicated system of coding can be turned into a web page. It has made me really think about what I would want to make my web page about and how I would style it. Whether I would give it layers or put multiple pages on one page--such as a banner on top and text on the bottom or perhaps even a split screen. My ideas for my project came floating into my head, one as unlikely as the next. First I thought I would make a family page based on the example in the book of the mother who made a page about her children and then remembered that the page had to be translated from something previously written. Then I thought I would make a picture diary of my summer trip and then remembered that the page would probably have to be more of a text page than image. My mind then wandered to the only texts that I have abundances of which would be my poetry, but I thought the world would be a safer place if no one ever read that--however it is my fallback due to the possibility of multiple links and image use. All in all, the reading did wonders to stimulate the thoughts of sites that I can make and gave great insights on how to make a site intriguing yet clean. It gave wonderful variation of design and content. I just need to decide what to use.
Jan 28, 2008
Chap 3/4 reflection
A lot of the aspects concerning creating webpages seems too good to be true because of all of the horror stories about how difficult and how much time it takes that I have heard from family members. Because I am not exactly "technologically savy," my concern is not with the teachings of chapter 4 (because I feel that I am able to organize and coordinate my ideas well enough), but rather the parts of chapter 3 (becuase I am unsure as to how quickly the programs like frontpage are going to comprehend in my mind). Also, because I have heard my family talk about web page design for years now, my curiosity was lifted when reading the information in chapter 3 because I wondered how many steps were cut off with the production of frontpage-type applications and if this is a main reason that the internet has become so widely spread or if the interent is just another type of technology that people are bound to learn. I feel that the internet may have gotten too big too quickly and because of applications that make the building of websites easier, we, as a public, have gotten too used to the internet being there and having the constant ability to change whatever we want about certain websites with the click of a button. My wonder is not on how exactly the internet grew, but instead on how the introduction of these applications helped or stunted people's views of the "art" in webpage design or if it has become just another thing that a majority of people can do only because the programs do the hard work for you.
Response to 3 & 4
I had done a lot of the basic stuff from chapter three before, so a lot of this was review to me, although it was presented in a really easy-to-understand way, and I thought the visual aids were awesome for illustrating exactly what the book was talking about. The sections about layering and frames were new to me, and I thought they were fairly easy to pick up on. I think this chapter laid a good foundation for some more complicated design stuff, which I’m looking forward to getting into.
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