1. Why are you taking this course? What prior experience do you have in designing
for the web?
As an Art major I have spent the greater part of three years developing a skill set that has very little commercial applications with out, for example, the tools that I will learn in this and other design classes. Being web savvy is an excellent way to market yourself and quickly disseminate work and ideas with-out having to go through and gear work towards galleries and collectors.
2. Select two projects from the web you consider to be interesting: 1) a Flash-based
project, and 2) a dynamically-generated web site. List each project with its
title, URL, one or more small “thumbnail” images, and two to three
sentences describing the project and why it is especially remarkable. Your page
should be clear and well-considered in its layout.
I worked on this project. It’s a low maintenance site. It can be updated by individual departments. It doesn’t require very much central organization. Has a simple and engaging interface.
It's Stupendous! I could watch this one all day.
3. Design a web page with an expressive typographic interpretation of this quotation:
Both everyday and exotic, public and private, autonomous and commercial, the
internet is a chaotic, diverse and crowded form of contemporary public space.
—Rachel Greene, Internet Art
Use CSS to control the precise appearance of the type and any supporting imagery. If you include images, do not use clip art or found images from the web unless if they are part of your concept. Think about how scale, juxtaposition, and position can affect how the text is read. You may wish to use JavaScript to increase the interactivity of the page by hiding and revealing text when the viewer clicks or rolls over different elements.
Description:
For this asignment I used a web dictionary to define each of the describing words in Greene's quote. I then placed the definitions among and paired them with agressive quotes by various athors about the potential of new technology ("cyberspace") to be great, but mostly fatal unless we sieze control, democretize, etc. I have very little understanding of how CSS works. I would prefer to never use this again. It was horrible and my web page is also horrible!