I'd like to remake my portfolio website. I threw it together really fast and I'd like it to be nicer looking. Right now, it only needs to have a home page about me and then branch off to individual pages for the games I've made. Each of those has a description for the game from a game design point of view and a link to download the game to try out. I'm not really looking to change the function of my site, just its rather shotty presentation. The audience will be Grad schools and potential employers.
Alexarts - A rather quirky, but slow loading, portfolio page.
Hello Monday - Just plain crazy sauce.
Magnetic Network - Possibly the most interactive interface... ever.
Beakable - Not sure how I feel about this one...
All Day - Scares the crap outta me, but oddly convincing.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wednesday assignment -- what kind of site would you like to make?
Your assignment for Wednesday's class:
On the blog, post a one or two paragraph description of the website you'd like to make for the first major "website project" for this class, and provide at least five links to websites that are in the same "genre" of the website you'd like to make -- make sure at least two of the links are sites you think are designed particularly well. In your paragraph, be sure to include who you think the audience for your website will be.
ALSO: please bring the dreamweaver book to class. We'll be using it for an in-class exercise.
On the blog, post a one or two paragraph description of the website you'd like to make for the first major "website project" for this class, and provide at least five links to websites that are in the same "genre" of the website you'd like to make -- make sure at least two of the links are sites you think are designed particularly well. In your paragraph, be sure to include who you think the audience for your website will be.
ALSO: please bring the dreamweaver book to class. We'll be using it for an in-class exercise.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Due on Wednesday
For next class, a reading assignment and brief response:
1. Read the below article, which uses the story we discussed in class as a jumping-off point:
http://www.nomadpete.com/files/fivestanding/hype/hyper-text.htm
2. Write a short paper answering these questions (in response to the story and the linked reading):
1. Read the below article, which uses the story we discussed in class as a jumping-off point:
http://www.nomadpete.com/files/fivestanding/hype/hyper-text.htm
2. Write a short paper answering these questions (in response to the story and the linked reading):
a. List three ways in which reading on the internet is different than reading from a book.
b. How is the web-reading experience "non-linear"? And how does linear thinking differ from non-linear thinking?
c. In what way does non-linear reading invite us to be the "author" of texts that we read, even if we didn't in fact write those texts?
Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths"
Here's a paragraph from a story we'll be talking about today -- and creating some hyperlinks with as well:
I said out loud: I must flee. I sat up noiselessly, in a useless perfection of silence, as if Madden were already lying in wait for me. Something--perhaps the mere vain ostentation of proving my resources were nil--made me look through my pockets. I found what I knew I would find. The American watch, the nickel chain and the square coin, the key ring with the incriminating useless keys to Runeberg's apartment, the notebook, a letter which I resolved to destroy immediately (and which I did not destroy), a crown, two shillings and a few pence, the red and blue pencil, the handkerchief, the revolver with one bullet. Absurdly, I took it in my hand and weighed it in order to inspire courage within myself. Vaguely I thought that a pistol report can be heard at a great distance. In ten minutes my plan was perfected. The telephone book listed the name of the only person capable of transmitting the message; he lived in a suburb of Fenton, less than a half hour's train ride away.
Here's the wikipedia page for the story, which contains a link to the full text of it.
I said out loud: I must flee. I sat up noiselessly, in a useless perfection of silence, as if Madden were already lying in wait for me. Something--perhaps the mere vain ostentation of proving my resources were nil--made me look through my pockets. I found what I knew I would find. The American watch, the nickel chain and the square coin, the key ring with the incriminating useless keys to Runeberg's apartment, the notebook, a letter which I resolved to destroy immediately (and which I did not destroy), a crown, two shillings and a few pence, the red and blue pencil, the handkerchief, the revolver with one bullet. Absurdly, I took it in my hand and weighed it in order to inspire courage within myself. Vaguely I thought that a pistol report can be heard at a great distance. In ten minutes my plan was perfected. The telephone book listed the name of the only person capable of transmitting the message; he lived in a suburb of Fenton, less than a half hour's train ride away.
Here's the wikipedia page for the story, which contains a link to the full text of it.
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