All assignments should be kept on your Vergil home (i.e.dante --> public_html) directory; submit your assignment by posting a link to it on the Message Board. Color the link red.
<a href="http://students.washington.edu/snoopdog/assign1.html" style="color:red" target="new">Here is Snoop Dog's first assignment</a>
Given the two examples trafficlight.html and horiztraflite.html, can you make a 8x8 checkerboard of red and black squares?
When WIRED printed the attached text, they played with the cut-and-paste idea and broke the text up into about 7 fragments differing by font-family, weight, style, line-height, and margin. Mark this up in that fashion as a web page, using at least 5 different fonts from different families, 3 changes of margin, change of weight (you can use STRONG) and style (use EM), 2 changes of line-height, 2 changes of font-size.
For this assignment, you should take a text, get it on line if it is not, and then add links to it around various works in the text. Some links should lead off-site and some should lead to other pages (e.g. notes and comments) on site. Some possible ideas might be hypertextualizing: a (good) essay you've written, a news story, a political issue, a brief biography, or annotating a short story or poem like these annotations by
In the end, your completed assignment should be one that someone surfing the web would want to read--just like any other "good" text. Due (aka posted with a link from the message board) Monday, July 16th by 10pm.Choose a basic site template from among the 1688 templates and install it on an ../engl282 subdirectory as your homesite for the course. You will of course have to modify content of the DIVs.
Here are two examples:
The task here is to analyse and evaluate the juxtapositions in one site from the following list:
The leading questions are what kinds of things get juxtaposed? What kind of juxtaposition is it? How does the juxtaposition work to express the theme(s) of each piece? A good way to get started would be to sort the juxtapositions in your site into different piles. Note also that some of the juxtaposition are between text and image, or within some of the images, and likewise between sound and image or sound and text.
Examples:
Here you can take one or more of the ideas we have been working with and build your own site with your own meanings. You can start from either one of the formal/structural ideas we have been using (juxtaposition (of image, text, sound), visual metaphor, etc.) and develop a site using this to articulate an idea or theme.
Or you can take an idea or theme and use some of the techniques we have learned to develop the theme. In either case, the site should be a mixture of the two things.
Or, a third possibility: if you have a burning urge to make a certain point, go for it.
Whichever you choose, include on the page a link to another design brief/artist's statement where you explain what it is you were trying to do.
Example: This project by Tyler Scott grew out of an imagemap.