In this week's reading, it provides insight on what draws an audience and what format style can make or break a reader's attention. To keep readers' attention it is recommended to provide the readers with an organized and clear format by placing importance on key points.
In Rosenweig's reading, we are provided with some general principle of design such as:
- Text
- Images, Color, and Multimedia
- Site Structure, and Good URLs
- Accessibility
Some things I Found Interesting in this week's chapter:
- "In 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Workforce Investment Act, which included the Rehabilitation Act Amendments, which in turn contained an important section, 508, relating to information technology like the web. Section 508 required that beginning in 2001, federal agencies had to make sure that individuals with disabilities could access their electronic documents and information."
- Like text, visual information should be an effective means of communicating ideas from historians to their audiences, as well as allowing those audiences to draw their own conclusions, just as they do reading interpretive prose. But sometimes graphics that break up the text of history books and essays, such as bar graphs and pie charts, create unnecessary distractions rather than provide substantive information. Instead of helpful graphical additions, publishers and authors often treat readers to what Tufte derisively labels “chartjunk.”
After reading the chapter I was inspired to change up my own blog to make it engaging and esthetically appealing to the eye. As I post more this semester I plan to change up my blog to keep the reader engaged and informed.
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