Hi folks! I wanted to talk about the design principles that Mauve Page talked about last lecture, and how I’ve tried to implement them into my blog. She discussed five (5) main design principles: balance, rhythm, proportion, contrast, and unity. Balance: Throughout my website, I tried to use images to help balance out all the…

In the required reading for his week, Erin Kissane discusses how the way that we receive content is different, as things have begun to migrate online. The article doesn’t specify whether they think that it’s a good or bad thing. I think that it could be both. Good as in that it makes it more…

Reviewing your own website is easy; it’s easy to be your own critic. Reviewing someone else’s website? That can be a little bit more difficult. Although you come from a more objective perspective, it’s harder to find the things that they can work on. Doing the peer review gave me the chance to look at…

I thought that the readings assigned for this week were interesting, but specifically the article written by Leetaru intrigued me. In summary, the Leetaru reading discussed how the act of digitizing everything is creating a gap in our knowledge. As we make more things digitally accessible, materials from the 1920s to 1980s is getting left…

When I was mapping my site, I looked to my vision board as there is a clear aesthetic that I can draw inspiration from. There were two things I knew for sure: I wanted browns, and I wanted my main font to have serifs. I think I am closer to achieving it, but there’s still…