There are some good articles out there that address color schemes, the necessity of having good ones, and the logistics of making them work well.
I found one article that wisely pointed out that, as always, deciding on a color scheme for your website goes back to your audience.
I found a really excellent example of Dr Sanders' "shimmer" in last Friday's Venue, page 21.
It's a four-color quarter-page for Isleta's coming "Luminaire" whatsit, and the first time I hit it, it took me three minutes - and a headache - to piece out the actual title.
o Good! High foreground/background contrast - background is green, foreground (text) is Kermit-green "glow" effect around blue letters.
o Bad! Each letter is done as an outline with a same-color eight-point "We Three Kings" style star in the middle of the hollow uprights, all of it "backlit" by that Kermit-green glow. So there's background - black - midground - Kermit green - and foreground - that blue stuff. And the eye tries to lock on both the stars and the letters at the same time and consequently gets lost between both.
FWIW.
Kathleen
Hey, if you need a little browsing time to relax, check out this really mind blowing site: www.worth1000.com. It's a Photoshop contest site in which a problem is posed (ie, Do a cross of movies) and people work their photoshop magic to produce some awesome results. Enjoy!
I've given up, and so has Kirby. For all you gurus and challengers: Is there a way to:
1) Add an arbitrary amount of space between, say, record 5 and record 6 in a stacked bar graph? We want to create space between the five winners and the rest of the losers.
2) Bold the text on the first five school names along the X-axis? There is a font manipulator, but not for a subset of the axis.
That's it. That's all we want.
This FastCompany article reiterates the "Powerpoint as evil" argument. As someone who has sat through FAR too many worthless powerpoint presentations where people read their slides to me and endlessly paused for technical problems, I tend to fall on that side of the fence.
The article does give some good advice for making your powerpoint presentations palatable, however. Follow them, for the good of us all.
It also links to the Gettysburg Address in Powerpoint Presentation, which is not to be missed.
Hi Stephani!
I have a few minor questions on the data charts. After I have already completed and saved a chart, how do I go back to fix errors and typos on the titles and category names? I am also having trouble with getting the names of the school districts on to the axis. I try ''control clicking'' on the axis but I can't get them on there. Finally, I am wondering if there is any way I can change effects of the graph. If I wanted to color an individual bar on my graph a single color instead of all the same color, could I do that? How?
Thanks for the help.
Mack
Okay, so I have a site... now what do I do with it?
I uploaded my site to the UNM server via Dreamweaver, but it didn't come out as the site... instead a directory appeared (see my site). I don't know how to make the actual site appear and not this directory. Did I create the hierarchy wrong or something?!? I just have no clue...
Somebody please help me!
Thanks!
Leah
UPDATE
I figured out the problem. Please feel free to visit the site, though, and provide feedback. Thanks.
This document includes the charts and visuals from last Wednesday's talk on audience analysis.Download file
This is the school data set for the data display assignment. Download file