HOMEWORK for ENG 3333 due 1/26

For this assignment, I want you to take a look at how the design principles of similarity, alignment, and proximity are at work on a website. It goes like this:

1. Find a website. (There are roughly 20 billion, by some accounts. Pick a good one.)
2. In a comment to this post, submit the URL and a few sentences explaining how you think , similarity, alignment, and proximity are / are not at work.

Just look at the main page of the website, often called the "index." Submit your comments no later than 1/26, early a.m.

Free software for our ENG 3333 class

Check out this old post on my blog for links to free design software.

Also, here's a link to the companion website for our text, Document Design.

Remember that Photoshop and Dreamweaver are on several of the computers in JM 103. GIMP and Kompozer should be on most (all?) of the rest. Over the course of the semester, we'll be using these programs to produce some of our class assignments, so if you want them on your personal computer, these links will help you get them.