Week Two Article Blog - 1 - 29 - 08

What is Ajax?

The First Article i read this week was, What is Ajax?. The Author of the article is Jennifer Kyrnin. The article is all about what Ajax aka Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which is a new web 2.0 application. This article explains what languages Ajax uses and what it does. They also go on to explain why they use it, and why its better then other ways to render the information it does. This was a great article for any web designer to read about. It tells you what you need to know to use it, why you should use it. I think it was a very useful article, because it told me exactly what i wanted to know about Ajax.

Communicating Design’ by Dan Brown

The Second Article i read this week was, Communicatiing Design' by Dan Brown. The Author of the article was by Gareth Rushgrove. I know you must be a little confused at the moment. This article was actually a review of a book. I thought i would blog about it because its one of the few books of its kind. That talks about documenting your design to allow your customers or employer know what your doing see your vision. This is a very rare aspect of the web design business that every designer should know. So the knowledge of this book should be known and thats why i choose to blog about it. I believe it was a very useful article because of this and everyone should read the article and then read the book.

Looking at type

The Third Article I read this week was, Looking at type. The author of the article was Mark Boulton. The article was about how proper font selection can make and break your site. How it can send the wrong message, if you select the wrong font. I believe a lot new web designers do this, Including myself. He tells you how to choose your font, and how to test you font. Its a great article and I learned a lot from it.