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• Visual Design Textbook rocks Web, Social Media Class
• First Class Devoted to Web Page Structure, Navigation, & Information Placement
• Madison Avenue and Darwinism revolutionize Web Advertising
• Television and Speed Reading reveal surprising insights about web page structure and asset location!

About.Com Articles

 

Day 2 - Social Media & Blogs.

Day 3: Designing Web Sites:  Chs. 5-7:  Color; Graphics; Typography.
          Designing Social Media Sites;  Purpose, Use, Design
          The Differences between Web Sites and Social Media Sites
          Homework Assignment: Storyboarding Your Web Site/Social Media Site

Course Objectives - Day 1.  You will learn:

• Effective web site design;
• Web technical terms you need to know;
• WWW:  Distinguish the Internet from the World Wide Web.  Internet Timeline.
• Help & Research Webdesign.About.com; Webopedia
• Eye techniques - how users read a web page;
• Information Placement:  Where to place text, graphics, news events, and advertising:
• "Madison Avenue" advertising and promotion techniques which guide information placement on a web site;
• Standard design techniques -"Custom and Usage in the Trade"
• To Identify the nine (9) structural elements of a standard web page.
• To collect site assets prior to page design.
• To design a page using Word Storyboards.

Form follows Function:  The Architecture of Facebook.  What Facebook can tell us about Social Media Design.

• Facebook's Bland Design - WashPost, Nov. 16, 2010
• Facebook Design - Pro's & Cons - WashPost, Nov. 16, 2010
• Proposed Facebook Redesign - WashPost, Nov. 16, 2010
• Facebook Needs a Facelift - WashPost, Nov. 16, 2010
• Facebook Profiles Get Major Redesign - WashPost, Dec. 6, 2010