I came from Fine Art background and my design classes had the same concepts however they encouraged a different style.

I found this site useful.

http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/main.htm

Display Resolution Statistics

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp

Files for today's class exercise

Here are 3 files to download for our class today.

http://expedition001.com/webdesign/IA/Aveda_IA.pdf

http://expedition001.com/webdesign/March_10_Exercise/AVEDA_styleguide.pdf

http://expedition001.com/webdesign/March_10_Exercise/images.zip