Margaret Kiernan Reflection

I have always taken a minimalist approach when creating web pages for my work. I choose to focus more on simplicity and ease of use over fancy bells and whistles. I find it more aesthetically pleasing when pages are balanced formally. I like to have the material evenly distributed on the page. I enjoy letting the material speak for itself rather than dress it up with distracting images and design. I don't believe in using a lot of different fonts as I feel like it can be hard to look at against different backgrounds.

As far as things like psychological implication goes, I use different shades of green on my webpages. According to the rules of design articles, this suggests influence and contentment. It is a very calming and welcoming color.

Creative Commons

I, along with my band, have used creative commons licenses for years. In my experience, it is a much more cost effective way to protect my intellectual properties online. We have always used the noncommercial/noderivs license on our material. While we want to be able to share our work for free with the public, we also want to protect our material from being used by outside sources.

This being said though, I realize that these licenses can be hard to police. Once something is placed online, it is pretty much there forever. So a good amount of the license seems to be based on using the honor system and hoping that people will respect the restrictions of your license.