designerFOUR: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson was your first friend on MySpace. Thats because he created MySpace along with Chris Dewolfe. He was the president,  but left the company in 2009, because noone uses MySpace anymore. They lost to Facebook. Basically Mark Zuckerburg beat Tom. After MySpace, Tom went on to be the president of Intermix Media, which was sold to News Corp. Tom is now retired and probably rich. 

designerTHREE: Larry Page

Larry Page is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He graduated  from the University of Michigan with a computer engeneering degree and then decided to graduate from Stanford University with a Master of Science in computer science. He is the co-founder of Google. As a result of this, he is rich. 16.7 billion dollars rich. He also invented PageRank, which is the foundation of Googles search engine. 

designerTWO: Blake Ross

At only 26, Blake Ross has accomplished more in his career than most designers will in their lives. He began programming while in middle school and developed his first website at the age of 10. When he was 15 he worked as an intern at Netscape Communications Corporation. He later went to Stanford University, where he is currently on a leave of absence. This obviously doesnt matter, because he is one of the creators of Mozilla Firefox. Firefox was released in 2004, when Ross was just 19. Over 100 million downloads happened in just the first year. Ross is now working at Facebook as Director of Product.

designerONE: Chris Sawyer

Chris Sawyer Is a Scottish game designer most known for Roller coaster Tycoon. He studied computer science at Strathclyde University, and then went on to creating PC conversions of games. He had the idea to creat management simulation games where the gamer has to be the builder and manager of whatever it is the specific game is centered around. The first game in this series was called Transport Tycoon. He developed a few later versions of this game, and then went on to develop Roller Coaster Tycoon, which has been one of the best selling games of all time. 

exerciseONE: 10 elements of good websites

1: Visual Appeal
 The website needs to be visually stimulating. the first impression of the website is very important.
http://www.logocranium.com/


2: Interesting User Interface
It is important that the site viewer enjoys traveling throughout the site. The site must have good transitions and layouts.
http://www.miniusa.com


3: Primary Navigation Should Be on Top
The primary means of navigating the website should all lie on the top section of the site. This makes sure everything is easy to get to, and that the viewer can get to where he needs to be.
http://www.vw.com/en.html


4: Also Provide Navigation Tools in the Footer
Navigation tools should also be on the bottom of the site, so that people don't have to scroll back to the top. People are lazy.
http://www.puma.com/


5: Have Meaningful Content
Your site should have as little filler as possible. Make sure everything has a purpose. There is a phrase "content is king." Keep it in mind.
http://365daysofastronomy.org/


6: Contact Information
Make sure it is simple for people to find your contact information.
http://www.inspiredm.com/colour-schemes/


7: Search
Make sure there is a search bar on your site so that people can easily find specific things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki


8: Offer a Sign-up Sheet
Allow people to sign-up or subscribe to your site so that you can send them information and other things.
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/index.jsp


9: Cross Browser Compatibility:
These days, it is extremely important for your site to work with all of the popular browsers.
http://analog.coop/


10: Web-Optimized Images:
Make sure your images are optimized to be used on the web. People dont realize that not all images will work well on the web.
http://www.marylandsecurity.net/

Student Website Review

Billy Heemer:

Your page one is beautifully done. I love the Lightly colored circles in the top left. They really help to balance out the page in a very subtle way. All of your type is also very nice. I like how you have your name and "design.photography.animation" and a few pictures on the top right, and then your links to other parts of your project on the bottom left. The photo of the street is also pretty cool. Definitely nice work.

Natalie Bett:

I like the color of the background on your multi page. And I also think that the color of text compliments the background well. The fact that you put a little bit of information on the multi page is nice. Most people just put the three links, making the page very empty. Its also nice that you added a link back to the home page. I didn't even think about that, but now i wish i had. Nice work.

Artist: Paul Rand

Paul Rand is known for his many timeless logos, most importantly including IBM, UPS, Abc, Ford, Cummins, and Enron. He attended Pratt Institute, the Art Students League, and Parsons New School for Design. While in school, Rand developed what has come to be known as the Swiss Style of graphic design used by many designers even today.

In 1936, Apparel Arts magazine gave Paul the task of setting their page layouts. This was where his reputation first started to grow. His remarkable talent for transforming mundane photographs into dynamic compositions gave editorial weight to the pages. Due to his new found fortay, Rand was given a full time job and even offered the job of art director for the Esquire-Coronet magazines. After a year of putting it off (due to him not feeling he was ready for what the job demanded) he took over responsibility for Esquire. Rand was only 23 at the time. After that, he went on to design countless logos for major corporations, and also teaching at Yale University.