Are Visuals Essential?

     Do visuals to a company or organization matter? Do people really see them and are then affected by them? As a communication major and an interest in graphic design, visuals are very important..in my opinion. When I look at graphics on billboards, websites, posters and magazines I am constantly looking at them and thinking about how the message is being received to viewers.
     This week I look that thought upon my work duites. This week I was to make a program cover for the All Star Nationals competition that is happening April 20. Just like the Internationals program cover I made before, this one is the same thing but for a different competition. 

     As you can see on the the left I added pictures from other Eastern competitions and put the date, location and name of the event in the middle. I think it turned out well, the only thing I don't like about it is that there is a lot of color in it but I think it works.

     The other thing I worked on this week was the AmeriCheer website, the AmeriDance website as well as the Eastern website. I had to update most of the pages under the Camps & Clinics (which there is 20 different pages). Some of them I simply had to copy and paste the information from the AmeriCheer website but others I had to create all type in all new information for the page, and other pages I didn't touch at all.
     It was a very different process when working their website because I am used to creating it and then uploading it while for AmeriCheer the site is already created all you have to do is decide what pages and link you want where. At first I didn't understand it but then after a while I got it. Now I am capable of adding documents, PDFs, pictures as well as text to any of their websites. I'm happy that I know how to do this because this can possible help me in the future if I am working for a company that uses the same website setup.
     With adding and editing things on their websites I also brought in my skill that I knew, and that was I know from taking the AGCOM 5530 Website and Design class that information on the web needs to be easily read and short in words. So I took that into consideration and tried my best to make the information worth reading on the AmeriCheer, AmeriDance and Eastern's websites.