Week 4 (January 24-30)

ATTENTION - Hot Text


Finding a website that has the ability to catch you're attention is definitely a difficult task. As Price and Price say on page 81 "Simplicity saves attention" and this couldn't be more true. Yes, while flashy websites tend to be more eye catching there is no flow through the website that readers are able to follow. I find that I tend to get lost in the flashiness of websites if there are too many distractions. But when a website offers a flow to it I can certainly navigate it better. Take this site for example. It is cleanly organized with the posts coming through the middle of the screen and if someone needs to find a post there is an index on the side. There is the ability for the site to get more complicated with more photos. However, the melding of photos and textual contend is a fine art. 


The Mix of Text and Photos - Writing Space 


Integrating text and visuals has a way of emphasizing a piece of written text. Hypertext can also link photos to other sites or the text to other photos. Having photos in text breaks up the text and offers an increase in visual appeal. The most important thing is to make the text and visual, pictorial, or audio/visual content have a common theme and not vary in content. The linking of text and picture content needs to offer a stronger argument than what you are making the picture and the text has to compliment each other and make the argument increasingly stronger. 


Sports Writing 


I am in sports writing class and recently had to do a story about the men's volleyball team winning against Windsor on Friday night. The content of the story discussed the abilities of the team member and which ones excelled over the other players. I feel that having photographical content would greatly enhance and honor the players who did exceptionally well. This is why I enjoy reading bio's about players at Western who have had outstanding performances and actually know who they are. 
When I write anything for the web I feel that adding photos or videos will grab the attention of the readers.