Designing Formats and Including Visuals
Most websites tend to have the same formats, however, some are less clutter than others, has valuable information, and user friendly. For this paper, www.forbes.com will be a good site to examine. Forbes website is a site that seems to have a lot going on, it is a “busy” site, and when you access the site you must watch an advertisement first or click to skip the ad. The design format for any website is very important and just as important if you include visuals. People that visit websites, visit for one reason or the other. However, the design, format and visuals can quickly make people go to another website if it is not viewable, has too much information, causes people to maneuver too much to view the site, or is not user friendly.
The www.forbes.com website is a commercial website. The analysis of this site will offer some great insight into how or how not to design a website, with or without visuals and details of its format, visual displays, audience and its uses of the elements of logos, ethos, and pathos. The first impression of a website determines whether the user or users will leave or stay. First impressions depends on several factors: color, spacing, structure, fonts, symmetry, amount of text, and much more.
The Forbes website when accessed you are not allowed immediate access until you either watch an advertisement and or click to skip it. Once you arrive at the website page, which is assumed to be the home page, you are met with top stories with images that are related to each story and an audio that automatically starts. The audio continues throughout your visit of the webpage and there is no instructions as to how to mute and or close the audio if you want to....
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For future college papers, and my professional life, it will always be my desire and focus to make sure that I consider format and visual design during my writing. Making sure that the format and visual design of my paper is striking, appropriate and effective, will contribute to my credibility. A “design that respects readers knowledge supports a text’s ethical appeal” (Hilligoss & Howard, 2002, p. 1 - 7). I will make sure to use graphics, pictures, or charts that will tell a significant portion of my story, for this will give my document/writing a sound design and my writing will gain authority if it is designed well. My approach will always be to give my readers the opportunity to feel emotion, in parts of my story. I will be looking to appeal to ethics, emotion and logic using format and visual designs in my writing.
Many texts often exclude and marginalize readers from its content. Writers produce their writings without thinking about the accessibility of their work and what type of readers they might not be reaching due to the lack of a not carefully considered document design. Natasha N. Jones and Stephanie K. Wheeler turn to Universal Design for Documents (UDD) as the best solution to this problem on their article “Document Design and Social Justice”, because it implies the writer has established values and considered inclusiveness when designing their work. Their suggestion also aims to not prioritize one audience over another, evening out their discourse community.
Before an author begins composing a body of work, there are three requirements necessary to establish beforehand. The composer must first “have a specific purpose and an audience”( Braziller, Kleinfeld, 7). A purpose allows there to be an overall reason to write. The purpose is necessary to persuade, inform, educate, or entertain the reader on a certain topic. The topic can be caused by "the time period, location, current event, or cultural significance (University, 1995-2018 )”. Identifying the audience is necessary since it instructs the composer how to communicate in a way the audience will appreciate and understand. Knowing how the audience will best understand the information gives the composer an advantage when trying to communicate the
One of the most important aspects of writing, according to the AACU writing rubric, concerns sources and evidence (“Writing Rubric” 2015). The rubric clearly states that an author must use “sources to support ideas in the writing…quotes, if applicable, are generally accurately placed. Citations are correctly formatted in MLA or APA” (2015). The Visual Rhetorical Analysis assignment, for English 1002, demonstrates the trouble I experienced with this significant area in writing (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015). Therefore, the revised version of the Visual Rhetorical Analysis demonstrates improvement in the use of sources and evidence as well as in citations, an essential are of writing, because the revisions illustrate proper citations as well as a stronger use of sources, as required by the writing rubric (Brizek, “Advertising” 2015; Brizek, “Revision” 2015; “Writing Rubric 2015).
...ferent things will determine if a website is successful or not. Two key things to keep in mind when designing a website is color, and the user. Choose colors that are appropriate and accurate to what you are trying to portray. Beyond color, you must design your website so that the user has the easiest, least time consuming, most pleasant experience they can. Chances are, they found your website on a search engine when looking for a particular service or product (Boswell). That means that a lot of other results came up too, meaning that if the user doesn’t like your website for any reason, there are a lot of other options. They are the ones who put food in your mouth as a web developer. If you don’t make them want to give you money or visit your website, you may or may not eat for any given amount of time. Make your design inviting and pleasant for your users.
The Elements of Style, was written is such a way that it was easy to understand which helped me paint a picture of what writing with “style” is like. This book is a collection of numerous tips and ideas that help the reader to know what it is that they need to do in order to write with “style”. The information that I found to be most useful came in the chapter entitled An Approach to Style. In this chapter the authors lay out some practical guidelines to writing with style. Some headings from this chapter are “Place yourself in the background, Write in a way that comes naturally, Work from a suitable design” (76). After I read this chapter I felt that I had a better knowledge of what writing with “style” really was. I began to understand the more abstract concept of style, it became more than following a series of set rules.
When writing any sort of narrative, be it novel or poem, fiction or non-fiction, scholarly or frivolous, an author must take into account the most effective manner in which to effectively convey the message to their audience. Choosing the wrong form, or method of speaking to the reader, could lead to a drastic misunderstanding of the meaning within an author’s content, or what precisely the author wants to say (Baldick 69). Even though there are quite a bit fewer words in a graphic novel than in the average novel, an author can convey just as much content and meaning through their images as they could through 60,000 words. In order to do that though, their usage of form must be thoughtfully considered and controlled. Marjane Satrapi, author of the graphic memoir The Complete Persepolis, took great pains in the creation of her panels in order to reinforce and emphasize her narrative, much like a novelist utilizes punctuation and paragraph breaks. Through her portrayal of darkness and lightness, Satrapi demonstrates that literary content influences, and is primary to, the form.
...ecting a wide range of design styles and contents” (Denise Agosto, p.258). This is important to keep in mind when creating a website. Cites need to be able to appeal to a large range of groups and personalities. When this is done websites will have the most success.
Johnson, T. (2011). S.P.I.D.E.R. A strategy for evaluating websites. Library Media Connection, 29(6), 58-59. Retrieved from http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.devry.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=a1fe208a-6fb8-4e68-8191-7ef041e2d483%40sessionmgr111&vid=25&hid=113
Next is in terms of the design and aesthetics. Layout that being used for this website is a plain white which easier people to read the text that is in black, in contrast and suitable for the concept of showroom online. The font is also suits which is not too big and not too small to be read by people. To highlight the main subject or the main product, the font is being bold to alert customers that they choose the right one. There is no audio available for this website or even a video. But somehow, as it was a home furnishing website, most of the pictures being used by the website is in JPEG format to deliver a clear view of the products to customers.
The design of the Web site is very bright and appealing to the eye. Its layout is inviting and easy to navigate. Its design is consistent through all pages. There are many graphics including, photographs, illustrations, and animated buttons and GIFs. These graphics are placed in an orderly fashion and do not create a cluttered appearance. The site has its own search engine which assists in navigating throughout the site.
Nowadays, backgrounds are one of the basic features that can finalise that how interesting the website is (Cronin, 2009). Most of the company using colour as the important element to create the advertisement in order to influence customers’ attention and decision making (Moore and Stammerjohan and Coulter, 2005). Therefore, Doublewoot should change the black and white colour to the colour that is more attractive such as red. According to Belluck (2009), the researchers from University of British Columbia has conducted the tests with 600 people that red colour did better on tests of memory and attention to an element such as memorizing words.sides that, a responsive web company must have a benefit which is readable in the text. Therefore, customers who are using the hand-held devices will no need to pinch and zoom in order to read it (Franz, 2014). According to Boyarski, Neuwirth, Forlizzi, and Regli (1998) has examined that when Times New Roman, Georgia, and Verdana fonts comparing in desktop screens, Georgia was suggestively perceived is the easiest font and more readable than Times New Roman. Hence, Doublewoot should consult and change their font type to Georgia and the font’s size should also change to bigger in order to make customers easier and faster to read it. In addition, the homepage of Doublewoot should put their feature image and also the latest
Now that we are living in an ever changing world, technology is viewed as the most resourceful tool in keeping up with the pace. Without the use of technology, communication would be limited to using mail for delivery and encyclopedias for research. Although technology has improved the way we communicate and find information for research, the information is not always valid. Unfortunately, for those of us who use the internet for shopping, research, or reading articles of personal interest the information is not treated the same as a your magazine or book. While such literature is reviewed by an editorial staff, internet literature or information can be published by anyone. In order to reap the full benefit of having the use of technology for any purpose, there are five basic criteria’s one must keep in mind as an evaluating tool for deciding whether or not the particular website is a reliable source for information.
Fried, Gregory. "True Pictures." Understanding Rhetoric. A Graphic Guide to Writing. The Basics. Visual Rhetoric. Readings. Ed. Dore Ripley. Pleasant Hill: DVC, 2013. 91-93. Print.
Having a website is a necessity nowadays, especially for people who are in business. Having a website helps promote your company’s services, for consumers to view and research your products easily, and also because internet is universal, people worldwide could purchase your products. Aside from business purposes, a website could also be built for personal use. If you’re into blogging, you can have your own site to express everything you want or feel; a website could also be used to inform people. Due to technology’s fast evolution, creating a website is now a very simple task even for those who have no background in web designing, all you need is a working computer and an internet connection and you’re ready to create your very own site!
In conclusion, it is clear that each website utilizes a different variation of several business models, while prioritizing different features of the website. For illustration, while the layout of Apivita’s website is orderly and clean, their emphasis on wording and busy text impacts the user experience. Estee Lauder, on the other hand, favors exciting imagery rather than language to attract the user and encourage a deeper exploration of the website. Despite their specific techniques, it is important such businesses conduct thorough reviews of their business models and practices in order to consistently grow and improve as an organization.