Final project comp

This is one of the ideas for my home page on the final project.

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/01

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foge revise comp

In the revised comp i made the video section stand out more at the top. I added a title at the top of the page. And framed the Logo and the picture on the home page. I also made sure that they buttons each only at text on one line.

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/01/fogepage/foge-comp-page2revised3

CH 6 & 7

Chapter 6 covered working with CSS. Which is short for Cascading Style Sheets. It is important to understanding CSS and some of its coding because it is vital for web design. You can ID section so they follow the same font setting which can save a lot of time when working with many pages.

Chapter 7 centered around working with Typography. It covered some important things such as aligning text, margins, and various fonts. Typography is an important element that should not be overlooked.

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/01/chap%5F06/

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/01/chap_07

CSS Typography

 Another article about CSS. It explains that CSS can do more than make the type look pretty. It can be used to make font and content more readable, and is now a standard on the web.

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/css_typography/

A design process revealed

 This article explains that to any non artist or designer it seem that a lot of smoke and mirrors are used in presenting a design. The author explains that this is not the case, and the most people use similar processes of development in design. It explains the main elements to designing a page and how once you’ll determined these categories you will have a good skeleton of the design. Once you have an idea of the design process your design can be done in no time.

http://www.stopdesign.com/articles/design_process/

Hotshot Oneshots

 The article explains some of the problems people encounter when the try to use CSS. The author explains that he had no idea how people could have any trouble with CSS. He then explains that a time came when he had to redesign an entire page to get it working with CSS. CSS can be a helpful tool, but there can be many problems with it. This is a good story of some of the problems that you can encounter with CSS.

http://www.dcwebwomen.org/hotshot/20080123.html

Grind and column design

 This page shows how you can have massive content on a page using grids. News sites often have lots of content on one page and utilize a grid system to make the page easy to read and navigate.

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/grid-and-column-designs/

Best of February 2008

 This site showed many interesting designs and logos. It showed the evolution of Apple Computers Logos from the 70’s to current. And explained some of the different trends in design over the years. It also demonstrated some various CSS techniques and their use on various adds and web pages. Its a good page to look at if your interested in learning more about using graphics.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/29/best-of-february-2008/

Combined Font Survey

 This page was pretty simple it gave states on the most commonly installed fonts. Microsoft’s Sans Serifs came in at #1 being on 99.5% of computer systems.

http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResults.shtml

A Dao of Web design

 The Tao is an ancient  religion  from  early  China.  In  this  article  the  author  tries to  make  a connection  between  the  unity  of  opposing  forces  in  the  “Dao”  and  web  design. See the correlation between the art of the Tao and the art of web design, but i think in a way the article dilutes the meaning of the Tao. Some of the topics covered include the art of uses texts that looks the sample a PC and a MAC. Layout font size and screen size and some accessibility issues brought to attention in the article. These problems can be accessed better in the coding than in a “what you see is what you get” editor. Perhaps that is the real Tao of web design.

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