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why do the pages look the way they do?
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design
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- blink
- i hope that absolutely no explanation is necessary.
- capitalization
- in english, as well as many other modern languages, we capitalize the first letter of certain words to denote them as signifiers of special objects or concepts. in the modern American culture in which elliot lives, the organization seems to be much more powerful than the individual. elliot capitalizes the names of organizations, locals, and abbreviations necessary. individuals, being deemed "inconsequential" to the functioning of the capitalist machine, are represented by all lowercase letters.
- colour
- the world is no longer a world of black and white. colour can be used to bring attention to things that the artist.designer.author would like to call to attention. animals are, by their nature, habitual beasts. we, as a subset of all animals, are also habitual. i chose the colours of the links on my pages to reinforce the habitual nature of man. most of the western world is dependent on automobiles, and therefore associates the colour red with stop and the colour green with go. not one to shake the boat, i chose to use green to encourage the viewer to explore the roads less traveled down. the title atop the page is blue, a colour that has been appearing more and more often in my life. it, along with the green used in the titles along the right side of the site, is a soothing colour.
- spelling
- the fascinations with British spellings and all things not American represent my (constant) search for things good in the world. just because one is American doesn't mean that one can't cast aside American popular culture structures and embrace other belief systems, as well as forms of artistic expression. if popular modern cultural publications are correct, (which i often doubt) with the birth of the internet and the increasing communication possibilities, we have entered a global world.
design
- colour
- the world is no longer a world of black and white. colour can be used to bring attention to things that the artist.designer.author would like to call to attention. animals are, by their nature, habitual beasts. we, as a subset of all animals, are also habitual. i chose the colours of the links on my pages to reinforce the habitual nature of man. unfollowed links are only slightly different in colour to the raw text. if it weren't for link underlining in modern browsers, it would take active searching to find unfollowed links in my pages. followed links are green, making habitual [re]visiting of sites more likely. in my experience, green has always represented "go safely," and, indeed, this is the message that i would like to give to viewers of the site. when links are selected, their colour changes to red. red is a colour that is often used to say stop, and it sends a mixed, somewhat confusing signal to the viewer. they are told to stop, when they obviously have chosen to go. the title atop the page is blue, a colour that has been appearing more and more often in my life. it, along with the green used in the titles along the right side of the site, is a soothing colour.
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