Webpage

When it comes to designing a web page you don't have to be Bill Gates. It is simple an easy and buy following a couple tips in the reading you can go from admiring other websites to creating you own. There are four "basic" principles that will play big roles in the creation of a website. These four principles re alignment, proximity, repetition, an contrast.

 

When you are ready to make your website you first start off with alignment. This means that all the content of the website should be all in order and lined up with each other. This allows your website to look organized as well as avoid any problems or mistakes. Next is proximity, which is " the relationships that items develop when they are close together, in close proximity." So making sure that the items on the web page "belong together," allow the websites appearance to look professional and neat. Then there is repetition. The purpose of repetition is to make the pages of a website look as if the belong together. It helps viewers avoid confusion by serving as a guide by liking everything together. Last is contrast. In my opinion contrast is the most important. It "is what draws your eye into the page." It is the color, style, and the overall appearance of your website. Without any contrast your website will be boring. Color is everything and it sets the mood of the site for the viewer. 

After critiquing my own page I realized that I subconsciously already knew the four basic elements of design. I think all four elements are very important and without knowing them a person would have no idea on how to create a webpage. After reading this I want to make sure my site is perfect. 

The Audience

I believe that the two essays that I just read both target completely different audiences, but have the same message. Trask targets a broad audience and wants to get her point across to millions of exact people where as Kniers essay targets a small group of "tech and gadget nerds." 

 Trask, A a native Hawaiian, writes her essay and targets an a broad audience of people whom she wants to feel and understand the pain and agony that her and her people are going through. She wrote this paper in order to get a point across. The tone she uses is forceful yet compassionate as if she is trying to show that she is angry, but doesn't want to solve the problem with violence, she just wants people to understand why she is s upset. She goes on to tell how "The predatory reality of tourism is visible everywhere." Again she is trying to get a point across. That her people are sick and tired of having their home destroyed and taken over by tourists. 

On the other hand Knier's essay targets a small audience of people who can will only understand what it is like to want something little and when you finally get it you want i to bet better. He starts off by letting his audience know all about him and his obsession with best buy. He is trying to prove a point that if you wait long enough you will eventually get what you want. His tone on the other hand is humorous and witty. At times he pokes fun at himself, " Truth is, I just liked being around all that tech." he just explains how he loves technology and spends a lot of time around it. 

In "Determine the appropriate tone" it says how " In writing, content, style, and word choice communicate tone. I agree with this, because in order to set the tone of your writing you have to throw in all of your own content, style and word choice. 

Now, ahh the two wonderful movies I cant wait to see. Bride & Prejudice and Pride & Prejudice target way different audiences. The Bride Movie is more of a family, love story comedy, that a Mom and Dad can take the family too and have laugh as well as a cute love story. But the Pride movie is a serious love story that a girlfriend would punish her boyfriend by making him watch it. The plot could in someway be similar but the characters are different and the tones are too.