Thursday, August 20, 2015

What is Graphic Design?














When you look at an image of just about anything it is graphic design.  Graphic design is a way people can use to express something like emotion or a hidden message. Graphic design affects your life more than you probably know it. If it is simply looking around town at buildings and their logos you experience graphic design in everyday life. Graphic Design even helps you decide what to wear if the clothing has a design on it. It could even influence what you buy at the grocery store. If there is a container that you like then you my be more enticed to buy it. Graphic design is different in everyones eyes to some you just see everyday colors and shapes but to others you see a deeper meaning and almost a bond with some designs.










Links: 

http://www.aiga.org/what-is-design/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTi5SNgxE3U




Wednesday, August 19, 2015

3 Sites, Then and Now

LoL 2015

League Of Legends Website

LoL 2011

The League of Legends site has improved a lot since its first release. Navigating is much easier due to the more organized structure of the pull down tabs. Due to the increase of people and the community it helped the website become better pretty quick. To me it is also more visually appealing than the old one as well.

In the 2015 website less code is used in order for the website to work. The Code is also more condensed in the 2015 compared to the 2011. It almost seems as if there is more code in the 2015 because it is condense because the older one is more spaced which i can assume that because of how HTML has changed this is why it is different like that.
LoL 2011
LoL 2015




















Pokemon Website


The pokemon website is the oldest website I am looking at and it looks very different. First the original website was called Pokemon World which is different from what is now just Pokemon. The site now looks better to the eye and is not a yellow blob with a blue background. There are more tabs and they are more organized that in the older one.


Pokemon 2015
In the source code the older one uses lots of tables and td in the code compared to the new one that uses divs more. The new code also appeared a bit cleaner than the older one but they may just have to be with different HTML versions.
Pokemon 2015

Pokemon 1999
Pokemon 1999
















Hearthpwn Website




Hearthpwn 2013
Hearthpwn is a fairly new website coinciding with the creation of a game called Hearthstone. The new website looks much cleaner and has a more organized look with different pull down tabs to easily access the website.It has a feature that can help people using it visually when looking at decks. It has joined the Curse community which gives the website a certain look to it and all the Curse things on it. The new website has probably become more than it was intended for but still staying the same as the older one.

Hearthpwn 2015


Hearthpwn 2013
Hearthpwn 2015










Since this is a newer website I found that most of the coding looked very similar but in the new one it seemed there was not long code but more of it. There was more links in the new one and because it has the curse look to it, it has the some of the same code as other websites that use the Curse Client










The Wayback Machine


The Purpose of the wayback machine was to allow ANYONE free access to anything that is stored on the internet. This can be used for whatever reasons. If you are researching something than it can be used for finding things on the internet that may not be there anymore. It can even be used fr a project like this comparing old to new websites. I know I enjoy just looking at how older websites and be amazed at how much they have changed and improved. It has thing other than websites as well suck as different texts, audio, images, and software.