Final Spring banners

14Mar08

These are the two MyAACC Spring banners that I submitted. I made the few revisions that I said I was going to. I also added a slight bevel to the flowers and “This is MyAACC”. I also had it reading, “My AACC”, so I changed it to “MyAACC”, as it appears on the website.  

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Spring AACC Banner

12Mar08

I think this is a good start. I am going to follow Prof. Jen’s advice and add some more flowers, kindof leading to the text. I’m going to make ”This is My AACC” fit into the rest of the AACC text. I am also going to try to remove the small line under the bird in the logo.  

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A Dao of Web Design reading

12Mar08

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/

This reading pretty much gave the same info as the other readings but made it interesting by applying Daoism philosophy to web design.

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Dive Into Accessibility reading

12Mar08

http://www.diveintoaccessibility.org/by_design_principle.html

 This reading gave tips from the W3C. For example, your website should be perceivable to everyone, links should be underlined or bold so that people who are color-blind can distinguish them.  

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Think Outside the Font Box reading

12Mar08

http://www.creativepro.com/article/think-outside-the-font-box

 This reading stresses checking the appearance of typefaces at the sizes you are going to use them. Some fonts that look appealing at smaller sizes will not when you make them larger and vice versa.   

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Best Faces For the Screen reading

12Mar08

http://www.will-harris.com/typoscrn.htm

 This reading is concerns type readability on the web. Chuck Bigelow (co-designer of the Lucida family type faces) suggests that you use sans serif fonts for body text because it is more readable. He also suggests that using fonts with larger x-heights helps readability on the screen. Bigelow also suggests adding a little tracking between characters so that they are not touching.

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In-class animation

05Mar08

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/02/week6/anim.gif

We learned that you can make gif animation using Photoshop. People use this to make banner ads for the web because it is a simple format and a well known standard to produce low-bandwidth animations. In this assignment we changed opacity, visibility, and tweening between frames to produce animation.

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Design beautiful websites with Fireworks Ch.1 pg.1-22

29Feb08

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/fireworks/articles/frwcs3_webdesign.html

This reading was great because it was right on point with what we have to be thinking about right now, with beginning the process of making our website for the final project. It just, kind of, confirmed how I was going to start everything and gave me more ideas, i.g. Things to know about the client and things to find out. The reading walked you though the process that you should take when starting a project like this.

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8 Web Design Tactics to Help You When You’re Stuck Article

29Feb08

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-design-tactics

 The author of this article gives advice about how to deal with being stuck when designing. One tip is Design from the inside out. I found this to be a good tip because I could see myself working on the header of a page forever, when doing my final project, thinking it doesn’t look right, and if I’d just maybe work on the body of the page, maybe that header wouldn’t look so dumb, or maybe I would know where to take it. Another one of his tips is Sketch something. That is an obvious tip but very useful because sketching ideas gives you something to reference. It also puts your ideas right in front of your face which helps with brainstorming.

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Five Principles to Design By Article

29Feb08

http://bokardo.com/archives/five-principles-to-design-by/

This article talks about the difference between art and design. Art is timeless and is made from expression to be appreciated. Design serves a purpose and is made, hopefully, to work well.

 I liked the quote at the end of the article, ” In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away”. That’s deep.    : )

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