Screen vs print design

Nowadays, layout design and writing structures are so important for author to create document. If a document come out with poor layout design and writing structures, reader may get confused, misunderstand the message that document provided, or just ignore this kind of document. So the first impression of the document is so important, because a document with nice design may catch out reader attention. According to jakob Nielsen, 1999, print design is a layout with much attention; the reader can turn the page obviously, whereas webpage is about the foundations of scrolling experience. In other words, print design is linear order, static, physical arrangements like magazines, book and so on. Screen is landscape orientation, like a webpage.


There a lot of consideration when we designing a magazine or book. According to Susan Hilligoss, Tharon Howard, 2002, we should consider the factor like color, text, and setting of the magazines. Amanda Kern said that the purpose of the magazine should be considered; knowing your goals as well as your target audience plays a big role in how you might design a page layout.


Example of magazines

source :http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2006/1101061023_400.jpg

According to John Morkes, Jakob Nielson, 1997, when we are writing for web, we should writing concise and scannable text. In other words, it means we should try to reduce paragraph and word as possible, because most of the readers are hard to read a text with a lot of words. Furthermore, the website that we design should be easy to navigate, easy to find and easy to read. So that reader can read comfortably. 

Example of webpage 

Source : http://www.smithfieldpcrepair.com/business-website-template-1-big.jpg

Reference

Susan Hilligoss, Tharon Howard, 2002, visual communication a writer;s guide second edition, viewed 9 April 9, 2012, http://www.ablongman.com/mycomplab_content/pdf/long_hilligoss.pdf

Amanda Kern, page layout design, viewed 9 April 2012, http://www.valenciawebstudio.com/articles/design/pagelayout/layout-all.html

Jakob Nielsen, 1999, difference between print design and web design, viewed 9 April 2012, http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html

John Morkes, Jakob Nielson, 1997, concise, scannable, objective: how to write for web?
viewed 12 April 2012, http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/writing.html

New form of media publishing

source: http://www.technobloggers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Social-Media-Icons.png

Since network technology is improving, the communication environment is rapidly changing. According to (Chris Willis, and Shayne Bowman, 2009,) mobile phones, portable cameras, and blogs is rapidly replacing traditional media to become more reliable and convenience. With the growth of internet, new form of media publishing are became more responsive and easier to handle, and the information that using new form of media publishing also can received the most attention from the public. Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, online newspapers are the most common example new form of media publishing.  Nowadays, we can spread personal news and common news quickly through Facebook by just sharing and click the “like”. 

Source: http://howtousetumblr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/facebook-like-buton1.png

Source : http://blogs-images.forbes.com/tomiogeron/files/2012/02/facebook_logo2.png







According to Joe Britton 2011,  the reason why Facebook to become so common is it because Facebook can interact with their friends, look at pictures that user uploaded, see what's going on, and many people are not fans of brands or want to even see ads on Facebook.

According to Walsh (2006, pp30), website can combine text and images by include music, video clip, and animation to make reader able to take the cues from the website.  With the structured special text and images in website, it may catch or attract reader attention. So this is the reason why social media is so popular and replace the traditional form of media publishing.



Reference

Walsh, M 2006, 'Reading words, images and screen: reading an internet site or hypertext', The 'textual shift': Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.

Joe Britton, 2011, why social media works? Viewed 9 April 9, 2012, http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-12/tech/30391322_1_social-media-advertisers-social-graph

Chris Willis, Shayne Bowman, 2009, Citizen Journalism: The Key Trend Shaping Online News Media - Introductory Guide With Videos, viewed 9 April 2012, http://www.masternewmedia.org/citizen-journalism-the-key-trend-shaping-online-news-media/#ixzz1rUrA1fx4

Blogging community & how a community is built

According to Britta kinkeldei, 2007, blog community is one of the sub-categories to gaining more recognition. In other words, blog community is community that where people can read our blog, picture and chat with the people all around the world. We can share our life experience, business and so on by using blog community, so our friends and other people may comment, then will got follower out latest update. The advantage of established blog community is the user finding new friends or people all around the world by networking. According to Darren Rowse 2009, there are 8 tips to build community, there are starts with comments, reader centered posts, interactive tools and projects, invite reader generated content, become a cheer leader, give reader jobs, set reader homework and give multiple avenues to join or be a member.

According to Nancy White, 2006, there are three type of blog community; there are one blog centric community, topic centric community and boundaries community. One blog centric community usually are owned by one owner or organisation, but there is a lot of blogger writing this kind of blog. Topic centric community is basically talked about common topic linked by blog and community.  Boundaries communities are single site or platform by combination of blog and blog reader.

An example of topic centric community is

source : http://www.travelblog.org/

This blog is a collection and combination of most of the tourist’s blog, it included review, guides and photos. Tourists can upload anything about the travel to this blog. This community is build for tourist, so the tourist can share travel experience and opinion or leave some comment to communicate with other reader.  

 Reference

Nancy White, 2006, blogs and community –launching a new paradigm for online community?, viewed 8 April 2012, http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community

Britta kinkeldei, 2007, forging connection and promoting growth through blog communities, viewed 8 April 2012, http://www.21publish.com/pub/21publish/blogging-whitepaper.pdf

Darren Rowse, 2009, 8 tips for building community on your blog, viewed 8 April 2012,http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/02/28/8-tips-for-building-community-on-your-blog/