Grids are well-defined collections of underlying guidelines that will help to help with page composition. They are usually applied in two dimensions and are extensivley used in editorial and other forms of print design.  With web applications, grid design is very important to organise visual elements in terms of consistency, grouping and prioritisation of information. For… Read More Design Principles – Grids

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing (leading), and letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning). The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process. Type design is a closely related… Read More Design Principles – Typography

Colours are critical to Branding. Colour perception is very culturally specific – So know your target audience well. For example, clashing colours could be appropriate on a website selling punk fashions, but do not impart the feeling of responsibility necessary for a financial organisation’s identity.  Colour Perception ‘The visual world, the world as we see… Read More Design Principles – Colour Theory

Presentation Styles Presentation can be classed in varying degrees of formality. Some examples of informal types would be small meetings, social meet-ups, a project viability meeting or sounding out someone for future employability. More formal presentations would include a board meeting, a government announcement or a client briefing Presentation Types There are many different types… Read More Presenting for Professionals

When developing web resoucres it is important to follow the following principles: FOLLOW W3C STANDARDS: Follow web standards as defined by the W3C, which is involved in developing international standards for ‘engineering these products’ : Web Design and Applications Web Design and Applications involve the standards for building and Rendering Web pages, including HTML, CSS, SVG, Ajax, and other technologies for Web Applications (“WebApps”).… Read More Core Principles of Web Development

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, it forms a trio of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web. Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page in a unique ‘grammar ‘and originally included cues for… Read More Web Computer Programming Languages

The Internet is the physical data network that hosts the worldwide web… One of the greatest things about the Internet is that nobody really owns it. It is a global collection of networks, both big and small. These networks connect together in many different ways to form the single entity that we know as the Internet. In fact, the very… Read More What is the Internet/Web?

2D Imagery With the multiplicity of software platforms used in digital production there is a huge range of file format for 2D graphic elements that can be divided into two broad categories; bitmap (AKA raster) and vector. Bitmap image files are based on screen pixels which combine in Red Green and Blue to form screen… Read More File Formats use by Digital Creatives

An overview Copyright is protection for the creation of visual and audio, public performance creative work, design and artwork of any kind.  You own it and can give permission to sell it or give it away free and be acknowledged. Fair useExemptions to Copyright: Study and research, quote from books and articles. Parody, pastiche memes… Read More M617_3896 © Copyright Blog

Definition of multimedia According to techterms.com, “As the name implies, multimedia is the integration of multiple forms of media. This includes text, graphics, audio, video, etc. For example, a presentation involving audio and video clips would be considered a “multimedia presentation.” Educational software that involves animations, sound, and text is called “multimedia software” Definition of… Read More Interactive & Multimedia Design