Week 4

The 4^th week topic is about CSS, typography and web fonts. The CSS are set of rules that guide the design, typography and layout of web page. It has two parts set of instructions and reference back to those instructions. 

Typography enhances the visual hierarchy by establishing relationship between pictures and text. More resources can be found in following link.

 www.ilovetypography.com.

Glossary of Font Terms helps to know more about web font’s names. The serif and sans-serif are the industry standard font families.

http://www.webdesignbooth.com/12-really-useful-image-optimization-tools-for-web-designers/ discusses the useful image optimization for web designers. They are Smush.it, Dynamic Drive Online, PunyPng, and SiteReportCard are all web based tools. Shrink O’ Matic, OptiPNG, ImageOptim, and PNGOut, PNGGauntlet, JPG & PNG Stripper, TweakPNG, and RIOT (Radical Image Optimization Tool) .I liked the PUNYPNG. It is a very simple and easy to use tool.