Designing...

After the lesson today, I should post a blog about the design aspect of this project. The design and layout of the web page is incredibly vital to the success of the web page, lets face it you wouldn't want to view a web page that was looked terrible and poorly put together. 

Here are a few key points I learned today,

• Proximity: This is keeping all the related items of your web page together, making it easier for the user, "The closeness of items to one another sets up their visual association with one another and helps produce an order to how the design is to be 'read'"
• Alignment: This means that the nothing should be placed on the page at random, everything should be placed that has a connection with other items.
• Repetition: If your going to do one idea for your design, repeat it through out!
• Contrast: If two items on the page are different, make them different, like REALLY different so that they contrast. A good example of this is using a black background with a white font within the middle. 

The use of grids is important (I found this out today). Grids can be as liberal or strict as you want, you can have wide, tight, tall small grids. All in all these little lines of joy keep your work clean, tidy and precise. They allow you to measure your work and check that it is all mathematically accurate

(ADD AND DOUBLE CHECK LATER ON)

After all of that, it becomes clear that those points are visible in most web pages you visit on the internet. Seeing as I am going to be creating a band page, I have done a bit of snooping,

As you can see from the King Blues website, it amplifies the points of contract and alignment.

The Bedouin Soundclash web page need I say more?

This has been a great learning curve and I am going to use these points in creating my web page. 

DRAFT