The four basic design principles are alignment, proximity, repitition, and contrast. Using these four principles will result in a very organized, easy to follow webpage. When aligning your page, you should make sure you use the same alignment throughout the whole page, dont mix alignments. You should also align your pages horizontally. Proximity is the closeness of certain things on a page and the relationship between them. The closer things are, the stronger the relationship should be between them. Repetition means that all of the webpages that compose your website have something in common that links them together. Using the same font, color scheme, layout, etc. can all help bring out repetition. The final principle, contrast, serves to lead viewers to the main points of interest of the webpage. Contrast can be making text bolder and bigger, a totally different font from everything else, etc. Combining these four principles should produce an AMAZING webpage!
As far as colors go on websites, you can be limited or unlimited. Either one works but if you're making a professional website, limited colors would most likely be the better choice. Limited color usage is picking a couple of colors and sticking with that color scheme for the whole site. Unlimited color usage is using many colors, but it still needs to be organized otherwise it will look messy. Any color can be used, all colors have been used at some point in time so reusing someone elses color scheme is not a problem!
Looking at my website, I believe I have definitely stuck with the same alignment the whole way through. On both my homepage and narrative page, everything is centered. Although the excerpt from Basic Design Principles says centering everything when you first begin making websites isn't very good, I think my page looks good. The proximity of the text and pictures on my homepage is good. I basically have pictures of myself surrounding the information about myself. The proximity of my narrative page is the same way. The pictures that are related to a particular part of the text are next to each other. The repetition I have on my pages are they are all set up with 3 columns. My homepage does look a little different from my narrative page, but my narrative page and page of my second paper have the same format and same font. The only place I really have the principle of contrast is on my homepage. I made my name bolder than the rest of the information about myself. The titles of my papers are also set aside and easy to notice.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Tone&Audience in Essays&MovieTrailers
Trask v. Knier
In Trask's essay, she expressed a tone of seriousness, aggressiveness, and frustration. The audience she is trying to reach with this essay is an older, informed audience, perhaps specialists in history or government officials. She mentions organizations and committee's that have been formed like "Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)", "Ka Lahui Hawai'i", and the "Constitutional Convention". This essay can also be assumed to be targeted toward just regular middle-aged citizens of America because at the end of the essay she states, "We don't need anymore tourists. If you want to help, pass this message on to your friends."
Kniers' essay is the complete opposite. He has a very relaxed and witty tone. He's very chatty and informal. His audience is clearly to that of young people his age, perhaps classmates. This can be seen by him saying, "regular plebes like you and me can declare backruptcy, too" inside another sentence. He tends to add little side remarks inside some of his statements showing that his essay is really informal. The tone of his essay probably could have been a little more formal since it was an assignment from his professor, but I think it keeps young readers like myself entertained, compared to with Trask's, which I didn't completely read =D.
Bride v. Pride
The movie Bride&Prejudice is aimed at an audience of young girls, probably pre-teens to late teens. The movie Pride&Prejudice is targeted at a older audience of women, most likely early twenties and up. The tone of Bride&Prejudice is more fun, humorous, and kind of like a romantic fairytale,…”a new twist on a classic tale”, while Pride&Prejudice is more of a serious romance movie. This is expressed by the dull colors and colonial clothing of the characters and the kind of classical music in Pride&Prejudice, compared to the lively colors and exciting clothing, and loud music of Bride&Prejudice.
In Trask's essay, she expressed a tone of seriousness, aggressiveness, and frustration. The audience she is trying to reach with this essay is an older, informed audience, perhaps specialists in history or government officials. She mentions organizations and committee's that have been formed like "Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA)", "Ka Lahui Hawai'i", and the "Constitutional Convention". This essay can also be assumed to be targeted toward just regular middle-aged citizens of America because at the end of the essay she states, "We don't need anymore tourists. If you want to help, pass this message on to your friends."
Kniers' essay is the complete opposite. He has a very relaxed and witty tone. He's very chatty and informal. His audience is clearly to that of young people his age, perhaps classmates. This can be seen by him saying, "regular plebes like you and me can declare backruptcy, too" inside another sentence. He tends to add little side remarks inside some of his statements showing that his essay is really informal. The tone of his essay probably could have been a little more formal since it was an assignment from his professor, but I think it keeps young readers like myself entertained, compared to with Trask's, which I didn't completely read =D.
Bride v. Pride
The movie Bride&Prejudice is aimed at an audience of young girls, probably pre-teens to late teens. The movie Pride&Prejudice is targeted at a older audience of women, most likely early twenties and up. The tone of Bride&Prejudice is more fun, humorous, and kind of like a romantic fairytale,…”a new twist on a classic tale”, while Pride&Prejudice is more of a serious romance movie. This is expressed by the dull colors and colonial clothing of the characters and the kind of classical music in Pride&Prejudice, compared to the lively colors and exciting clothing, and loud music of Bride&Prejudice.
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