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Ilovetypography.com, and their article “15 excellent examples of web typography”: the site itself is an exhaustive collection of everything typography.  I seriously was amazed at the amout of links running down the right column to articles dealing with everything from designing a font from scratch to what Freud would think the types of fonts we [...]

We have now reached the final chapter in The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, which discusses the use of imagery in web sites.  I think the issue of what kinds of images I would want to use on my site drove my decision on what to do my site on more than any other factor.  [...]

Chapter 14 in Creating a Web Site taught us about JavaScript.  Seriously, I think I could read this chapter a dozen times and still feel like my head is swimming.  This is definitely a learning process for me.  And there is nothing in particular that I have questions about, I just feel like this entire [...]

Chapter 13 in Creating a Web Site is all about making money using the internet.  Again, this is a subject I had some prior knowledge of, because I had been really interested in giving affiliate marketing a try several years back.  I am definitely not creative enough to come up with a real, tangible product [...]

We reviewed the following websites this week:

urbandirty.com:  REALLY edgy stuff.  Most of the photos have a really dark feel to them.  Again, not exactly the look I’m going for with my own website, but very artistic.  The website has a cool, gothic look to it with the black background.

flickr.com, best textures group: This site was [...]

This week we studied chapter 4 in The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, which dealt with typography.  The chapter contained a warning towards the beginning that the study of typography could get addictive, and with good reason.  The terms that define the “anatomy of letterform” were particularly interesting.  It reminded me a lot of a grammar [...]

Chapter 12 in Creating a Web Site is entitled, “Letting visitors talk to you (and each other).”  This chapter has really made me think about how I would incorporate these concepts into my website.  My plan is to build one for my family’s bakery.  It was open for 40 years but was still a very [...]

Finally, in chapter 11 (“Attracting visitors”) in Creating a Web Site, I have come to a chapter that makes sense and which I digested with relative ease.  I know I have mentioned in past posts that I had played around with the idea of creating a web site back in probably 2004.  At the time [...]