I lost all my input with the slip of a finger last time, so now I am cutting and pasting using Word.
The first website of exploration this week is the one devoted to one of our three texts: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beaird. While I am writing this in New Times Roman, black-on-white, Beaird exemplifies the five basic elements of design graphically. (That makes sense!) The words “layer,” “color,” “texture,” “typography,” and “imagery” are handwritten across the section heading the regular, old text. You can place the curser on any one of these words and see an example in the page you are looking at. For example, scroll each word, and you will see the following concepts pointed out in red:
Layer
Isolation
White space
Fixed width
Color
Desaturation
Intensity
Complementary colors
Texture
Point
Line
Shape
Shadow
Proportion
Pattern
Typography
Image replacement
“Swiss”
“One Punch Jim”
“Handwritten”
Pixels, points, and ems
Imagery
Choosing formats
.gif, .png
Finding the right images
Edge treatments
Contrasting my awful looking list with a visual counterpart does emphasize the importance of design, both aesthetically, and in terms of integrating concepts and information. Excellent!