Website design is complicated. There's a fine line between good clean design and crap. I think I have a great splash page but I haven't discovered how to translate that into the rest of my site. What good is a good splash page if the site behind it doesn't look anything like it? I need to brainstorm some more creative and genius ideas. What I've got right now is not cutting it.
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The sites that we saw today in class were great. I really liked Christine's peeping girl. I thought it was cute and sophisticated. Not amateur. I also really liked how on Melissa's site she had thumbnails pop up when you scrolled over the numbers and then when you clicked you got a big image. Very cool. There are so many things that I saw today that I wouldn't know how to do in the programs we use. I think the book is helpful but only to a certain degree. It seems that you just have to kind of tinker with the programs, kind of like the programs I'm already used to.
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Newsdesigner.com finally updated! The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Ariz.) has launched a Monday redesign. So I guess that means that this is a redesign only for the Monday papers. Hmm. I've never heard of that, but maybe I'm just dense. They are marketing it as a new Monday product that's going to be chok full of newsy things unlike most Monday papers which are really the lightest papers as far as news content goes. It's the newspaper "for busy people," says editor Ward Bushee.
Luke Knox of the Republic says the Monday edition will feature:
... shorter stories, more short-form information and content to help readers kick-start their week. It's basically the antithesis of the usual Monday product you may find from a number of papers, filled with retread stories and no real news to sink your teeth into. ... Section fronts have one, (mostly) non-jumping story and a series of lists, refers and other devices to get the reader into the section.
NB: There is display type on all the dominant images. Is there a new rule with the Monday paper that all dominant images must also have display type on them? Not always a bad thing, but maybe a bit too much too fast.
I used to live in Phoneix. The paper didn't look quite this trendy when I lived there.
Text on a photo, again. I like it. It's done well. And whoa, there's nothing quite like west-coast smog. It's almost worse than LA because Phoenix is a valley where the smog just settles on the city. At least there are coastal portions of LA so the smog can kind of disperse.
It's almost like a magazine, isn't it?
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