Module 3 Web Design Principles & Blogs
There was a lot of interesting information in this week’s module. I really liked the websites 99 Designs and the UX Designs. I got some great ideas for my individual PowerPoint presentation. I also liked the exercise where we are to list 15-20 web design principles/ideas. I got a bit carried away with Contrast and Unity. I discovered that there are principles originally documented in the 1920s by German psychologists called Gestalt principles of visual perception that are being used in web designing today. Basically, they are grouping principles of: proximity, similarity, uniform connectedness, good continuation, and common fate.
Well, this week I managed to do a blog with a bit more word processing in it. I have a title, heading, paragraphs, some line height, a category, bold, background color, text color. Next week, I hope to figure out how to do underlining without having the whole paragraph modified at once. Till then,