visual Interface: Colours

Who thought that colour was so important in what we see on websites; well I know for sure that before I had a lecture on it I didn’t.


Colours play a big role in everyday life as well in the making of websites. Colours can change the way people things always as certain colours are associated with meaning certain things like red for danger and green for ‘go’ for example.

There are primary colours which consist of reds, yellows and blues. Secondary colours which consist of the primary colours being combined i.e. orange, purple and green. And of course tertiary colours which are the primary colours added to the adjacent secondary ones.

By combining the primary, secondary and tertiary colours together you get the colour wheel which is split into the triad colour scheme, the analogous colour scheme and the complimentary colour scheme.

This all sounds pretty confusing by with a diagram it will definitely make more sense.

“Triad colour scheme organizes colours in regard to purity.” EW Design http://www.ew4newbies.co.uk/ewdesign/colour.htm

I now know that choosing the correct colour palette for a website is as significant as having the right information.

Visual Interface

Visual interface is the most important mediator linking computer/internet users and there content. Visual interface involve conventions, colours, metaphors and typology used in creating a visual meaning.
When making a website it’s not only the information that your putting on their important it’s the way you organise that information on the page that really matters and which will initially engage the reader to want to read in the first place. You only have three seconds to engage a reader and to keep them from not pressing the back button is by making sure you have the right things on screen. The format matters, the colours matter and the typology matters so it’s key to get it right.

In this lecture I learned which it is key in establishing the identity of your site and doing so on every page. Knowing what information is needed and what information or images are just causing unwanted clutter. Navigation bars and search purposes are always best placed in the top left hand corner or along the top of the screen and lastly always place information into different fragments.

Its funny how such things make such a big difference without knowing. What people see is either going to appealing or not and the as nobody likes clutter I belive that this is the best way of presenting a web page.

a display of how a website should look 

War and technology

Without the knowledge many people wouldn't think that the technology that we know so well today was introduced by the army of the first world war. Communication was important and with that; multimedia in common with other technology such as personal computers and microprocessors were all commodities of the military research and development known as the R&D. The military helped in the development of the computer, the internet and so much more. To my knowledge the first electronic computer was designed to calculate an artillery range table which was made by the US Army. The Electrical Numerical Integrator and calculator machine also known as (ENIAC) was basically the first general purpose electronic computer.



Without the development of these technical machines technology would be what it is today. It was the knowledge of these war veterans of producing computers which developed the idea of the atomic bomb which needed the capabilities of an electronic computer.

http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/mauchly/jwm8b.html

Blogging

In this lecture we looked at the modern form of blogging and how it is changing means of communication and opinion altogether. The word blog was made with combining the words web and log which gives its meaning of logging details on the web. Blogging has become much more interesting and exciting with mediums like facebook and twitter introducing a different aspect of blogging such as micro blogging.


Blogs such as what I’m doing now usually consist of regular entries of comments, remarks and opinions together with material such as images, graphics, videos and also links to other web pages or other peoples blogs which relate to the same subject. Blogging is no longer just textual based it can involve just videos like those who blog on ‘Youtube’ for example...Safe Kids/Hot Cars: Never Leave Your Child Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XSuHjD1xSs

Reason blogs are becoming popular is because they are a yet another means of communication as people are able to interact with you via each blog you post by leaving comments and views which in my opinion really breaks out of the norm.

People use blogs for personal reasons such as logging an online diary as well as those used for more professional news based blogging.

Cyberspace

Cyberspace is definitely one of the best technologies to man. It allows you to communicate via an online medium. In cyberspace you are able to reach a wide range of people around the world and the accessibility alone is unbelievable. This technology combines a number of capabilities such as sensors, signals, connections, transmissions, processors and controllers which are enough to make a virtual interactive experience accessible.




Cyberspace is not quite the internet but the internet is a way into which you are able to explore into cyberspace and find out things as well as communicate with others just like the way you communication via telephone.

"Cyberspace is the "place" where a telephone conversation appears to occur. Not inside your actual phone, the plastic device on your desk. Not inside the other person's phone, in some other city. The place between the phones. [...]"

Bruce Sterlin , Introduction to the Hacker crackdown

I believe that this subject that we covered is essential in the present time as ‘cyberspace’ has allowed us to explore a lot of things from browsing the internet for knowledge as well for the purposes of communication via email, call and instant message

The end of novels

This digital age has brought about the end of books or has it?

This subject is much more relevant in this day and age where we are surrounded by all the latest computer technology like the Apple Mac Books to the I Pads which allow you to do a lot more than the book has ever been able to do.

One upon a time the book improved the quality of text conservation and the access to information. The book has allowed information to flourish in political, economical possibilities as well as the word of religion. The book has always been looked at as the launch of information which allowed people to record information and read about other people’s thoughts and ideas.

Computers have taken over the aspect of writing or reading a book. The internet alone has given people more variety and allowed people to be much more creative. Books have no way of being updated or corrected which isn’t ideal in this day and age.

In this lecture we looked at digital culture in a whole and within this lecture we looked at revolution of modern technology to the somewhat ancient book.

Just like the sources I’ve looked up and read, I would definitely agree that the ‘book’ is always going to be good for what it provides but just doesn’t give you many options such as being as accessible or searchable reason I believe that it may be the end of books.

"They have no metadata. They carry no conversation. They are thrown out when there’s no space for them anymore. Print is where words go to die."

(The Book is dead. Long live the book) http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/05/19/the-book-is-dead-long-live-the-book/ By Jeff Jarvis