two websites

As a person with an avid interest in food, I chose to do my two websites on the thing i love most in the world... CANDY!

http://www.bad-candy.com/
This website, which offers sarcastic reviews of today's candy, keeps its color scheme to warm tones such as yellow and reds. These bring in the eye of the reader and make the website seem closer than to the viewer. Also, like Williams wrote in his book, using creative fonts can really make a page. While candy can be fun, this website means serious business when it comes to reviewing it, but still keeps the tone of the website light by using a decorative font. This font isnt western but it works well to suggest that it is. Also the variation in font sizes brings focus and wimsy to the heading on the page. I think that using an oldstyle font for the text of the page would have gone against the purpose of the website by making it seem older and more formal.

http://us.mms.com/us/
This website shows off a different area that was discussed in our reading, and that was the use of color. On this website, while there isnt alot of variation in text style, mainly a sans sarif font is used, there is alot of variation in color. This is because they substituted the difference in font style with variation in color. The various colors bring attention to your eye to various areas on the webpage. None of the colors used are very dark, and it was a conscious choice to make the titles of the links and sections bright colors. In doing so they pop out at the audience its trying to read and keep their eyes moving across the page. "Register now" is the brightest of all the links because it is seemed to be the most important and assumes that the first need of the user is to want to learn how to register for news updates.