Guidelines For Your Web Project

The Basics:
Your web project should demonstrate your engagement with the materials of the course and your mastery of some basic web design skills.

Concept:
Your web project should be a creative or critical analysis of your own relationship to media and technology. How is technology involved in your life? In what way does it influence your sense of identity? Does it? Your task will be to build a web site that represents this relationship both visually and textually.The page is imagined as a self-representation.

Required Components:
Your final web project must contain at least three images, at least five links (internal or external), and at least a page of text articulating your relationship to media and technology. More advanced design components such as sound or animation are, of course, optional.

Possibilities:
Consider the representative tools used in Patchwork Girl and in the flash and hypertext poetry. You may decide to create your own hypertext poem, story, or essay to illustrate your identity. Are you compelled by the image of the cyborg? Conceive of how you might represent a cyborg identity visually? Are you interested in photography? Incorporate your own digital pictures into your page or scan physical pictures in. What about drawing? Comic art? Short film? Any of these could be included on your page.

Presentation:
The final two days of this course are set aside for in-class presentations (5-7 minutes) of your final web projects. You will be required to demonstrate the page and explain your design concepts to the class. Please contact me to sign up for a specific day.

Dreamweaver Workshop:
Mike Frangos will be offering a workshop on the basics of Dreamweaver Web Design (date and time to be announced), and will also be available in the lab to assist you with learning basic skills. He will also be present in the lab to give you time to work on your own pages. Please contact him for hours and dates.