Chapter 18,19,20

Both the standards community and the Flash community are extremely good at sharing knowledge and supporting the people within their respective groups. The relationship across communities, however, isn’t nearly as cordial. Two things are happening: either the people within each camp stay to themselves, or one ignorantly hurls insults at the other.

As new technologies emerge, their following naturally starts small. An effective rallying cry is to find—or create—a common enemy. Huge strides such as Doug Bowman’s Wired redesign, Dave Shea’s CSS Zen Garden, and Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards had a significant influence, not only on the standards community, but on the entire web design industry. They positioned standards as an alternative to Flash and table-based sites, not in conflict with them. However, less enlightened followers wrongly interpreted these champions’ examples as the first assault. As Adobe Photoshop Principal Product Manager John Nack says, “people want a certain ‘killer’ narrative.”

The same thing is happening today. Those pushing the HTML5 specification forward, such as Ian Hickson, Jeremy Keith, and the NYC gathering of geeks, are offering it as a new alternative with some major advantages over existing technologies. Yet again, some have dubbed it the harbinger of doom for Flash.

Chapter 16

Web Design and Applications involve the standards for building and rendering Web pages, including HTML5, CSS, SVG, Ajax, and other technologies for Web Applications .  This section also includes information on how make pages accessible to people with disabilities, internationalized, and work on mobile devices.

HTML and CSS are the fundamental technologies for building Web pages: HTML (html and xhtml) for structure, CSS for style and layout, including WebFonts. Find resources for good Web page design as well as helpful tools.

Graphics

W3C is the home of the widely deployed PNG raster format, SVG vector format, and the Canvas API. WebCGM is a more specialized format used, for example, in the fields of automotive engineering, aeronautics.

Audio and Video

Some of the W3C formats that enable authoring audio and video presentations include HTML, SVG, and SMIL (for synchronization). W3C is also working on a timed text format for captioning and other applications

Privacy

The Web is a powerful tool for communications and transactions of all sorts. It is important to consider privacy and security implications of the Web as part of technology design. Although technology such as POWDER should empower users to make appropriate privacy decisions and to protect sensitive information, education is also an important element of building trust on the Web.

Chapter 15

CARD SORTING-  Card sorting is a quick, inexpensive, and reliable method, which serves as input into your information design process. Card sorting generates an overall structure for your information, as well as suggestions for navigation, menus, and possible taxonomiesWhile card sorting might not provide you with final structure, it can help you answer many questions you will need to tackle throughout the information design phase. For example, more than likely there will be some areas that users disagree on regarding groupings or labels. In these cases, card sorting can help identify trends

common information architecture mistakes web designers make when creating a website -

1) No structure

2) search and structure not integraded

3) missing category landing pages

4) Poorly integrated with main site

5) Invisible navigation techniques

Chapter 14

When you get hired to redesign part of a web site for a company like Lee Monroe there are many things you need to no to improve there website.  You have to remember this website has already been designed and the company is wanting lee to make it better fro them and there costumers.  Some of the things you would do for this website is send the potential client a website planner.  A website planner is a series of questions the web designer has made up for the client, these questions will help lee design the website.  some questions you might ask are, who is there market user.  Who is there competition and there time frame and budget you will have to work on the website.

chapter 13

They mistake Style for Design, when the two things are not the same at all. Design communicates on every level. Style can also  convey the designer’s contempt for the subject matter. there are many young new designers coming into the world today and Jeffery Zaldman has something to say about them.  They are coming into the world coming out with some of the best flash work ever seen.  Many people just no of what they see on TV commercials.  which is mostly all flash commercials.   Jeffery says “Most of my colleagues design sites like this (http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/stylevsdesign/), My jaw drops when I witness their achievements, and I cheer when they take home their well-deserved prizes. Jeffry also worrys that “Not enough designers are working in that vast middle ground between eye candy and usability where most of the web must be built.” As long as our society values Style over Design, surface over substance, the situation where in will never inprove.

Chapter 12

What is the role of web graphics? Sistent across the range of pages in a site for the user to establish a sense that your pages are a discrete region—related perhaps to a larger whole if you work in a major enterprise—but in some ways distinct as a “place”

Graphics as content

Graphics serve a number of purposes as elements of content—along with and complementary to text content:

• Illustrations: Graphics can show you things, bringing pieces of the world into your document
• Diagrams: Quantitative graphics and process diagrams can explain concepts visually
• Quantitative data: Numeric charts can help explain financial, scientific, or other data
• Analysis and causality: Graphics can help take apart a topic or show what caused it
• Integration: Graphics can combine words, numbers, and images in a comprehensive explanation

Chapter 10

Photo manipulation is the application of  image wditing techniques to  photographs in order to create an illusion or deception in contrast to mere enhancement or correction, through analog or digital means. Its uses, cultural impact, and ethical concerns have made it a subject of interest beyond the technical process and skills involved.

In order to prepare your pictures for magazines use, you need to make some decisions about who’s going to look at the pictures.  In Cs4 they have come out with the new adjustments box.. It has almost all you need to work with any type of photo. Also has very easy accsses to the curves icon allowing you to do some of the hardest curve adjustments very easily.  Also on the new adjustment panel when you are working with a picture when you click on the vibrance button or the cuves box it automatically creates a new layer for you.

Some of the worst pohoto shop disasters i found where

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2010/03/librarian-shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.html

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/12/ohio-tta-fill-her-up.html

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/12/kenwood-right-to-bare-arms.html

View Artwork from History/View Web Design Galleries/

http://cedarapp.com/ ceader app is in the age of post colonialism art its has more of a modern look to it.

http://tonychester.com/ Tony Chesters web site seems to fall into the rennisance theme.  Chester has older looking effect to his website and also has a picture of him self on the website putting him into the rennisance catagory.

http://www.badabingdesign.nl/ On the Badabing site it seems to have more of a modern theme to the page. They have alot of pictures that take you to other link of there site. And that is what makes it appear as a modern web site to me.  Also this website has a prints and photographs theme.

http://www.kodu.co.uk/ Ko Du is definatly more of a modern themed website.  they base there website off of apps which are pretty new in the world today.

http://www.domainadvertising.com/ Damian advertising is not one of the newest themed websites out there.  There have been many websites that have advertised certain things on there websites ever since the internet has been around.

Using the Adobe Photoshop CS4 Histogram Panel

Not wanting you adjustment in photo shop to get out of control? By using the histogram you problem can be solved.  The Histogram panel  also can help you to ensure that you don’t push your edits and adjustments too far.  A histogram is a simple bar graph that shows the range of brightness levels that make up an image and the prevalence of each of these shades. When you look at the histogram, imagine that a gradient is stretched across the bottom of the bar graph, with black on the left and white on the right If the histogram shows a bar above a particular shade of gray, that shade is used somewhere in the image. If there’s no bar, that brightness level isn’t used in that image. The height of the bar indicates how prevalent a particular brightness level is, compared to the others that make up the image. there is also a bonus.  when you are trying to adjust an image the histogram will come onto play.  the histogram overlays  you picture.  Also when the histogram wont extend for you, can move the right and left points on a curve toward the middle. this will allow the histogram to widen. 

Basic Guidelines for Image Capture and Optimisation

There is a lot more to image capture than just going out and taking pictures and up loading them to your computer.  There is a Pre Image capture and image capture.  All of these steps will come together to make you picture fit your likings. 

In the Pre image capture you have to make sure that all of your equipment is working and calibrated to the time of day of the environment around you.  Also if your going out to capture a picture for a certain project you might be working on, you might want to know the type and size of the file you will be working on.  you also need to consider the use of objective and subjective  colour management. 

Then there is Image capture. When your capturing an image you want your image to be on the highest quality as possible.  You also want to check Every image should be given a visual check for any obvious faults, re-capturing at time of creation is easier and less time-consuming than having to return to the original at a later date. Then once the image has been captured you will want to save it within a standard open uncompressed file.