Archive for March, 2008

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.  


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 [...]


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.


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.  


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.   


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 [...]


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.