I already said how I feel about texture for the most part (see last post). I don't think ALL texture is bad, and I hope that this week's readings and websites will show me that they are, in fact, awesome. We'll see.
MacDonald, Ch. 11 and 12
Ch. 11: Attracting visitors. I am designing a professional site that I plan to use on my resume, when applying for jobs, or one day on my "about me" section of a school library website where I work. Other than that, I'm not interested in marketing my website. However, if you are, MacDonald has a section on that in chapter 11.
Search engines (p. 316). Will my web project show up if someone googles me? I just googled myself (eeek!!!) and in fact it does not. I think this is because I am using a secure server sponsored by my school? MacDonald says that you can introduce your site to Google (p. 317), but I'm not going that route. In fact, there's a section about hiding from search engines! (p. 321).
Overall, I think Chapter 11 is useful if you're in the market to market your site or product.
Chapter 12: Mailto Links! (p. 337). Here we go. Professional sites need this in case someone stumbles upon the site and instantly wants to hire you!
This chapter also has info about making forums and groups, which isn't necessary on a professional site, but will one day be useful if I ever design a library site. This info is on pages 350-.
Beaird, Ch. 4
Chapter 4: Typography!!! This chapter is cool. Especially if you want to make your page unique and fun. This would be a great chapter for someone designing a blog or fun personal site. I like the info on spacing (p. 106). Again, I think this would be best utilized by a site trying to sell something.
I'm going to review this week's websites in their own post--there's a lot of them.
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