Here are four examples of website design that I think are superior to the others I've encountered, They're designs are clean, clear and stylish. Especially the adobe site due to its smooth look.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Good Website Examples
Here are four examples of website design that I think are superior to the others I've encountered, They're designs are clean, clear and stylish. Especially the adobe site due to its smooth look.
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Typography
The following is information on typography taken from wikipedia:
History
For the origins and evolution of typography, see the main articles History of western typography, History of typography in East Asia, and Movable type.
Look up typography in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Etymology: Typography (from the Greek words τύπος typos = "to strike" "That by which something is symbolized or figured …" and γραφία graphia = to write).
Typography traces its origins to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times. The first known movable type printing artifact is probably the Phaistos Disc, though its real purpose remains disputed. The item dates between 1850 BC and 1600 BC, back to Minoan age and is now on display at the archaeological museum of Herakleion in Crete, Greece.
Typography with movable type was separately invented in 11th-century China, and modular movable metal type began in 13th-century China, was developed again in mid-15th century Europe with the development of specialised techniques for casting and combining cheap copies of letterpunches in the vast quantities required to print multiple copies of texts.
[edit] Scope
In contemporary use, the practice and study of typography is very broad, covering all aspects of letter design and application. These include:
typesetting and type design;
handwriting and calligraphy;
graffiti;
inscriptional and architectural lettering;
poster design and other large scale lettering such as signage and billboards;
business communications and promotional collateral;
advertising;
wordmarks and typographic logos (logotypes);
apparel (clothing);
labels on maps;
vehicle instrument panels;
kinetic typography in motion picture films and television;
as a component of industrial design—type on household appliances, pens and wristwatches, for example.
and as a component in modern poetry (see, for example, the poetry of e. e. cummings)
Since digitization, typography has spread to a wider ranger of applications, appearing on web pages, LCD mobile phone screens, and hand-held video games. The ubiquity of type has led typographers to coin the phrase "Type is everywhere".
Traditional typography follows four principles: repetition, contrast, proximity, and alignment.
[edit] Text typography
Text typeset in Iowan Old Style roman, italics and small caps, optimized at approximately 10 words per line, typeface sized at 14 points on 1.4 x leading, with 0.2 points extra tracking. Extract of an essay by Oscar Wilde The English Renaissance of Art ca. 1882.
Text typeset using LaTeX digital typesetting software
In traditional typography, text is composed to create a readable, coherent, and visually satisfying whole that works invisibly, without the awareness of the reader. Even distribution with a minimum of distractions and anomalies are aimed at producing clarity and transparency.
Choice of font(s) is perhaps the primary aspect of text typography—prose fiction, non-fiction, editorial, educational, religious, scientific, spiritual and commercial writing all have differing characteristics and requirements. For historic material, established text typefaces are frequently chosen according to a scheme of historical genre acquired by a long process of accretion, with considerable overlap between historical periods.
Contemporary books are more likely to be set with state-of-the-art seriffed "text romans" or "book romans" with design values echoing present-day design arts, which are closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo (a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces), and Claude Garamond. With their more specialized requirements, newspapers and magazines rely on compact, tightly-fitted text romans specially designed for the task, which offer maximum flexibility, readability and efficient use of page space. Sans serif text fonts are often used for introductory paragraphs, incidental text and whole short articles. A current fashion is to pair sans serif type for headings with a high-performance seriffed font of matching style for the text of an article.
The text layout, tone or color of set matter, and the interplay of text with white space of the page and other graphic elements combine to impart a "feel" or "resonance" to the subject matter. With printed media typographers are also concerned with binding margins, paper selection and printing methods.
Typography is modulated by orthography and linguistics, word structures, word frequencies, morphology, phonetic constructs and linguistic syntax. Typography also is subject to specific cultural conventions. For example, in French it is customary to insert a non-breaking space before a colon (:) or semicolon (;) in a sentence, while in English it is not.
History
For the origins and evolution of typography, see the main articles History of western typography, History of typography in East Asia, and Movable type.
Look up typography in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Etymology: Typography (from the Greek words τύπος typos = "to strike" "That by which something is symbolized or figured …" and γραφία graphia = to write).
Typography traces its origins to the first punches and dies used to make seals and currency in ancient times. The first known movable type printing artifact is probably the Phaistos Disc, though its real purpose remains disputed. The item dates between 1850 BC and 1600 BC, back to Minoan age and is now on display at the archaeological museum of Herakleion in Crete, Greece.
Typography with movable type was separately invented in 11th-century China, and modular movable metal type began in 13th-century China, was developed again in mid-15th century Europe with the development of specialised techniques for casting and combining cheap copies of letterpunches in the vast quantities required to print multiple copies of texts.
[edit] Scope
In contemporary use, the practice and study of typography is very broad, covering all aspects of letter design and application. These include:
typesetting and type design;
handwriting and calligraphy;
graffiti;
inscriptional and architectural lettering;
poster design and other large scale lettering such as signage and billboards;
business communications and promotional collateral;
advertising;
wordmarks and typographic logos (logotypes);
apparel (clothing);
labels on maps;
vehicle instrument panels;
kinetic typography in motion picture films and television;
as a component of industrial design—type on household appliances, pens and wristwatches, for example.
and as a component in modern poetry (see, for example, the poetry of e. e. cummings)
Since digitization, typography has spread to a wider ranger of applications, appearing on web pages, LCD mobile phone screens, and hand-held video games. The ubiquity of type has led typographers to coin the phrase "Type is everywhere".
Traditional typography follows four principles: repetition, contrast, proximity, and alignment.
[edit] Text typography
Text typeset in Iowan Old Style roman, italics and small caps, optimized at approximately 10 words per line, typeface sized at 14 points on 1.4 x leading, with 0.2 points extra tracking. Extract of an essay by Oscar Wilde The English Renaissance of Art ca. 1882.
Text typeset using LaTeX digital typesetting software
In traditional typography, text is composed to create a readable, coherent, and visually satisfying whole that works invisibly, without the awareness of the reader. Even distribution with a minimum of distractions and anomalies are aimed at producing clarity and transparency.
Choice of font(s) is perhaps the primary aspect of text typography—prose fiction, non-fiction, editorial, educational, religious, scientific, spiritual and commercial writing all have differing characteristics and requirements. For historic material, established text typefaces are frequently chosen according to a scheme of historical genre acquired by a long process of accretion, with considerable overlap between historical periods.
Contemporary books are more likely to be set with state-of-the-art seriffed "text romans" or "book romans" with design values echoing present-day design arts, which are closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo (a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces), and Claude Garamond. With their more specialized requirements, newspapers and magazines rely on compact, tightly-fitted text romans specially designed for the task, which offer maximum flexibility, readability and efficient use of page space. Sans serif text fonts are often used for introductory paragraphs, incidental text and whole short articles. A current fashion is to pair sans serif type for headings with a high-performance seriffed font of matching style for the text of an article.
The text layout, tone or color of set matter, and the interplay of text with white space of the page and other graphic elements combine to impart a "feel" or "resonance" to the subject matter. With printed media typographers are also concerned with binding margins, paper selection and printing methods.
Typography is modulated by orthography and linguistics, word structures, word frequencies, morphology, phonetic constructs and linguistic syntax. Typography also is subject to specific cultural conventions. For example, in French it is customary to insert a non-breaking space before a colon (:) or semicolon (;) in a sentence, while in English it is not.
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Advertising Yourself
For any freelancer it is of paramount importance to advertise your services or else you simply wont have any work no matter how good your skills are. There are two main ways you can go about this:
Papers: An ad can be taken out in the newspaper, magazines or yellow pages etc, as a lot of people read through these everyday, however the drawback to this is if you limit your advertising to a few papers then the work you can get will only be local and could be very limiting.
Internet: various websites can be used such as ifreelance mentioned in the previous post, where people competetively bid for projects uploaded by potential customers outlining what they want and how much they are willing to pay for it.
Papers: An ad can be taken out in the newspaper, magazines or yellow pages etc, as a lot of people read through these everyday, however the drawback to this is if you limit your advertising to a few papers then the work you can get will only be local and could be very limiting.
Internet: various websites can be used such as ifreelance mentioned in the previous post, where people competetively bid for projects uploaded by potential customers outlining what they want and how much they are willing to pay for it.
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Getting the job
One of the ways to gain a job as a freelancer is to sign into one of the freelance websites that allows clients to upload a brief for a project and you can bid on a place for that job by uploading your CV.
www.ifreelance.com for example has these features.
www.ifreelance.com for example has these features.
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Freelance research
This section is research devoted to writing on the web
"I love my current clients - this isn’t about them. But in the past, mainly when I was a freelance journalist, I have had to deal with a few clients that were very difficult:
"I love my current clients - this isn’t about them. But in the past, mainly when I was a freelance journalist, I have had to deal with a few clients that were very difficult:
- Asking for more work without paying more
- Paying very late
- Insisting on changes even when I had strongly recommended against them
- Being uncommunicative or hard to reach
- Epic delays in giving feedback
- Feedback that was difficult to implement or (sometimes) understand
- Insist on impossible deadlines, even while delaying their own part in the process until the last possible moment
- Getting me involved in their office politics
Usually, bad clients and bad projects involve a combination of these problems. They cause me a lot of stress.
In a couple of cases, I’ve walked away from clients or projects, even at the risk of a big cut in my income, because the profit : pain ratio was too bad. I made these decisions based on emotion - the pain side of the equation - and I only came up with the idea of this ratio the other day.
Certainly, I can tolerate a lot more stress and inconvenience when I’m being well paid. I’ve heard this described as an ‘arsehole premium’. Ultimately, though, even the best-paid projects become too much if they affect your personal life or threaten your professional integrity."
This piece of text taken from badlanguage.net, shows that being a freelancer has its drawbacks in that people can be an annoyance when it comes to maintaining a smooth workflow.
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