Ch. 3 Response

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Chapter three of the textbook talks about how the overall look of the website is very appealing to anyone who's interested. I think it was very helpful how this chapter talks about hierarchy on a web design. It helps designers to shift the user's attention depending on its color, text font and image. This chapter referenced the newspapers's headlines where the bigger the font the more relevant the story will be. This reminds me of html coding, with heading elements with h1, h2, h3 and so on. 

Complex websites for newspapers, blogging, or business have a lot of context. It was very helpful to understand how this chapter explained to put containers on each section of the website and put hierarchy on each container. It was also helpful that this chapter showed how to break up pages on a website. To not put a solid vibrant border around it but make it more appealing into the eyes. Seeing photos of web designs back then made me think about how important color palettes are. Despite all these helpful tips of making a very inviting web design, it's still a challenge on how to know if an image or a section of the site is clickable or not.

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