February 11, 2016: Class Notes

Design 

• Why does design exist?
• transfer a message
• don't let the design hinder your message
• Shaping your theme
• audience is the most important thing to consider when creating a theme
• think about the messages that you will produce
• Designing blog/website
• readability 
• usually no more than 2-3 fonts
• don't use reverse type (contrast-white over black)
• images
• no clip art
• no pixalation
• crop all in the blog the same size
• justify Left for cell phone users
• use high quality photos
• high resolution
• widows and orphans
• orphan-when you have one word on its own line
• widow-when you have part of the paragraph on a line all by itself
• hierarchy
• makes it skimable
• use bulleted lists
• use bold and italics
• use subheads
• consistency 
• concept