Since the website I designed for COMM 3533 is a game art portfolio website, each website I will be analyzing must contain the following items:
George Smith Patton was a General with the United States Army during World War II. He is best known for his guidance during the world war, and was also well known for how open he was while speaking. Enter D-Day, minus one. The speech he gave to the Third Army who were about to raid France was, and still is one of his most famous speeches. In this speech, Patton uses victimage rhetoric to attempt to stir up a significant amount of emotion. More specifically, Patton uses war rhetoric—that is, he is uniting his soldiers against the axis powers. He dehumanizes, emasculates, and embarrasses the enemy in an attempt to inspire his men. Interestingly enough, Patton also uses martyr victimage to create a commonality within his Third Army. He details various inspirational individuals whom he defines as “real men” and heroic. Undoubtedly, this did inspire and persuade his men. He also turns this around to once again emasculate the enemy, establishing that the enemy wasn’t smart or manly enough to see them coming.
I discovered this site while stumbling. I know my usual posts are about design and design tools, but there’s so much information on this site that I had to post it.
This particular site links to 203 different websites regarding style sheets, proper formatting, and various tools.
This website could be considered the Swiss Army Knife of CSS sites… just like a Swiss Army Knife, this can help you with just every need you have.
Granted, the layout and design of the site is terrible. But it’s simple, and well organized.
HTML and WordPress are, for the most part, 100% compatible. Here’s an exercise to help you learn some html. Now, the goal of this is to NEVER use any of the buttons you see in the editor during this exercise.
Here’s a site I found VERY helpful, and it plays on what Karen Zimmerman was teaching regarding hue and design:
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
This site is specifically designed to help a person pick the colors that would complement their site, with all variations based on mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, and accented analogic choices (think back to the color wheels she presented in class).
You choose the hue variation (ie, triad) and then when you find the colors you like, simply mouse over the color and you have what’s called the hex value. On WordPress, you can usually find the colors in the “Theme Options”. Simply input the hex value that you want.
If I ever need to develop a color scheme, this is the place I go.
I will have to say that I don’t necessarily agree with all the color variations that the site gives—which is why it’s good to have a sandbox WordPress site.
In response to what will be today’s lesson in Web Design, I remembered that a while back I had bookmarked a website that contained some extremely well designed website navigation menus. Most of the navigation menus can be coded rather easily. The one I find particularly intriguing is the 3rd one down on the list, the “Fredric Aasbo” website. I won’t link to the site, since there does seem to be something wrong with the website, but I’ll show a screenshot of the page:
I really love how simple the navigation looks, but yet has the element at the top that adds a lighting effect on the navigation button. The “light” also shows you what page you are on. The only thing I don’t particularly like about the navigation is how large the navigation buttons are. I feel they could have been much smaller and still would have given the same effect.
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It’s been hard to stay on top of the blogging!
A few weeks back, Steve approached me and told me that he had a proposition for me. He had been asked by Dr. Hobson to do the audio for “Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” but was unable to fulfill his commitment since Creatio had grown so rapidly. So he asked me if I could do it in his place. Read the rest of this entry »
Woops, forgot to put in a few more days.
Let’s see: Last week I didn’t get a chance to go in at all (sick kid), but the week before Steve started showing me how the board in Mama Bear works. I started experimenting with it a bit on my own time so I could get used to it.
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