Archive for March, 2006
The accessibility of web sites
Each of the assigned articles are insightful. Although I have spent some time thinking about accessibility of websites, these sites provided some clues and suggestions on how to accommodate users with different disabilities.
Human Factors was a great way to hear how all of those websites that use a billion tables are really annoying to those who use screen readers.
The UK government site was also pretty enlightening on how various users with disabilities would view the demonstration site. Although I found the original site pretty hard to use even in the non-diabled mode.
A short history of web pages
Here’s someone’s short take on the history and evolution of web pages.
Class comments on Image Assignment
Cropping needs some work. Needs some head space.
A little more skin color on the hand coloring.
On vignette, and clean up stuff, a little lighter tones. Darkness lost some of the detail. The background needs to be lighter.
Tips from others (That I need to do to mine too):
Amanda’s horse - the background is a bit too flat. Needs a little variation or gaussian fading.
Michael’s patterns on the photo - There’s a tool in Photoshop that get’s rid of patterns, something to do with the blur tool.
Nona’s pictures - They just use a link to the image file that opens in a blank file. Maybe link it to an html file that centers the image, or makes the window just the same size as the image.
Kurt’s images - When an image is ‘blown out’ (there’s too much white, over exposed), copy the image to another layer and mess with the copies opacity, or do multiply.
Design Project:
This needs to depict a different era than what your final project is. Tie it a time and place. Design a complete look and feel. A front page only with some decent text. Create an identity. Make an impact. Kind of bring it all to a crecendo.