Week 7: Where Can You Turn for Help?

  1. How current is the information?
  2. Who is posting the information?
  3. What kind of gatekeeping mechanisms are in place?
  4. Quality of the information?
  5. Would you use this resource in the future?
    1. Shutterstock.com: 5 Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in InDesign
      1. The information on this website was posted on March 19, 2018 so it isn’t too far out of date. However, since it is a tutorial for how to do different things, it won’t really be out of date unless the program itself changes.
      2. Shutterstock has posted the information on the blog section of their website with the author being Grace Fussell. I think that they are pretty high up there when it comes to different design attributes and such due to their big name in the industry.
      3. Each of the articles have a tag above them to let you know the main content in the article. for example: Design, Contributor, Video Production, etc.. They seem like they are organized by release of the article rather than popularity.
      4. I think the article was very well written. It was very clear and concise with easy to follow steps and prompts.
      5. I definitely would use this resource in the future. It has some really cool design ideas in it. I actually already saved it to my bookmarks to use later in one of my other courses.
    2. webistebuilderexpert.com: How To Design a Website in 8 Simple Steps
      1. This post was last updated on October 5, 2020 so it is as recent as you are going to get with this advise and information.
      2. WebsiteBuilderExpert is posting the information with the author of this article being Charlie Carmichael. I am unsure of their authority of the subject but the website comes up often when I am looking for advise on websites.
      3. The articles on the homepage are listed by the nine most read articles, as well as the most shared and most commented.
      4. I think that this article is very well written. It begins by listing the eight steps to build a website and then expands on each individually. It isn’t drawn out but still gets the point across.
      5. I think that I would use this again as I help my sister and dad set up websites and such for their own business’s.
    3. ephotozine.com: Top 10 Best Adobe Photoshop Techniques
      1. This article was written on March 5, 2012 so it isn’t exactly recent, especially with how much technology has changed, but since it is all tutorial, not much of the information should change unless Photoshop has changed tools around a lot.
      2. ePHOTOzine has posted this article with the author not listed. I have never heard of this website before so I am unsure of their authority on the topic but since they were one of the first sites to come up on Google I am willing to assume they are pretty popular.
      3. The posts on the homepage are all listed in chronological order and don’t seem to be impacted by the popularity of each individually.
      4. This article itself doesn’t have much writing in it since it is mainly links to the individual tutorials, but I kind of like that it only has a link, description, and example photo for each tip.
      5. I do think I would use this again if I were to be trying a bunch of different things for practice or just for fun.