Reflections/Compare/Contrast

Prior to taking this course I wasnt aware of the components,creativity and precision that goes into making a website. Ive come to see how important graphic design is and the roles it plays in the world of communications. I never thought of the science that goes behind constructing a website and therefore its importants. I went from knowing very little about how graphics,design and layouts play a huge part in advertisements and business. I know now that its not just throught pictures and words onto a piece off paper or onto a website. Instead everything should be concise in its place, order, and appearance to help convey information and to talk to a person without actually ever coming face to face.
I have noticed that the website that I first constructed didnt take into account all the things needed for the viewer such as typography,readibility and viewibility.
The story board that we prepared for class for our final websites was a great warm up for how I wanted my website to be viewed and portrayed. I did realize that it didnt come out anywhere near how my final wesbite turned out, but nonetheless it was a good tool to use for me to get my mind thinking about the website and any idea's I would eventually have.

Web vs print

Writing for the web tends to be much more informal where writing for print tends to be more formal structure. Writing for the web allows you to do so much more than you can writing for print. Your freedoms writing for the web is endless compared to print. For the web more of the writers personality comes to light. You can be more creating adding bullets and paratraph trim along with colorful texts and backgrounds. Not to mention the ability to create stylish extra's which will grab the readers attention. With print the fun is not as intense as on the web. There are typically no cool colors or fonts or anything for that matter, that would help to grab the attention of the reading audience for which it is trying to gain the attention. Its so much more time consuming for many to read print than the web. The web is vertually everywhere and to grab a newspaper or magazine is almost impossible in today's society. People are so busy with the hustle and bustle of their everyday life that it is easier to read the news on the web than stop at a news stand and buy a paper then find time to read it.  Almost everyone has web access at their finger tips with smartphones and portable laptop computers. Web all the way!

Storyboarding

Storyboarding is a great way to roughly go through your presentation so you can visually see how you want it to flow and to make any necessary changes. Storyboarding is very helpful because creating a storyboard with pictures and how you will set up your presentation will give others to see a general idea of what you want to portray and offer any ideas. I am a visual person and to have each webpage laid out before me, helps to give me idea's of how I want to design each page. By doing this the storyboard has helped me form more of an idea of how I want my website to be designed. This helps to cut down on me having to go back and forth in my website and change things until it is the way I want it. Basically in a nutshell the storyboard has saved me some frusteration by helping me plan out the design of my website.