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Week 7

I Love Typography Menu on top, rollover changes color. Plain, use of whitespace, black text with some red text here and there

I Love Typography: 15 Examples of Excellent Web Typography Would have been better if they explained what was so great about these examples.

Typographica A graphic with “Typographica” runs along the top of the [...]

Week 6

I enjoyed looking at the different textures and backgrounds, especially ones that were available for free. In the interest of time, I limited myself to ones that could work with my site’s theme.

Urban Dirty I generally stay away from websites with white font on black background, but here, it works – the font size [...]

Week 4

Chapter 2 in Beautiful Web Design was all about Color. It’s interesting now to see the different color combinations, tertiary colors, etc. And to learn which color combinations work well when.

Web Style Guide looks plain, with its black text on white background and blue hyperlinks, but it makes it easier to see. [...]

Week 3

I’ve come to realize that the textbooks are easier for me to understand than many of the websites I have to peruse for this class. Could it be that the textbooks assume you don’t know anything and the websites are very technologically-oriented?

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers provides information about domain [...]