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Suggestions for effective web design and tips on how to keep the noise down (by Margo)
Keep the design constant
Experiment within the obvious choices…where else could the headline reside?
Rank the elements
Determine minimal content
Group related elements together & isolate
Increase contrast of
Style of text
Color: less is greater than more
SIZE: 3 max. Perform this choice last
EXAGGERATE one item [...]
What woman has not received a cookbook as a gift? Cooking at home is more economical, healthy and ‘green’, but who has time? There is a new angle today on no-time-to-cook, cookbooks. A far cry from the Campbells Soup Recipes of my mother’s day, several authors have defined ways to organize your cooking process to [...]
Zittrain J. (2007, June). Saving the internet. Harvard Business Review. 85(6), 49-59, 140. Accessed July 29, 2007 from Ebsco. AN 24997959
Saving the Internet discusses two pathways that our personal computing machinery is headed and the author’s related concerns. One path embodies simplification to the point of being appliance-hood : TiVO. [...]
Review: Benkler, Y. (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0300110562
Yochai Benkler’s book is outstanding in quality, delivery and breadth. Some of the books ideas may not be new to the reader, having been previously introduced through his many published scholarly articles, from his podium at [...]
Stern, K. (2007). Play me a story: games based on children’s books. Teacher Librarian. Vol. 34, No. 4, April 2007, pg. 30, 5 pgs. (Accessed 7.15.2007 Proquest ID# 1259842131).
Kelly Stern writes about the benefits of game playing as an educational tool. Benefits include development of life skills such as problem solving, decision making, feelings [...]
Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York and London: New York University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0814742815.
Convergence Culture is a nonfiction analysis of the effects of new media on popular culture. A professor of Humanities and co-founder/co-director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, Mr. Jenkins has an excellent reputation in [...]
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