Week 11: Critique + WWW Publishing

60-90 minutes: Critique of Sketch 9, and the overall website: Ask questions about what to change, add, is it legible, navigable, clear, distracting, well-designed, etc.?  What aspects of the site need work?  Does the site “read” as an artist’s site?  Consider adding a project description to describe the kinds of images you are posting.

Optional quiz on HTML and CSS and digital imaging techniques, given at discretion of instructor

Optional demo: Use Keynote or iPhoto to export a Quicktime movie that is a slideshow of images, CLICK HERE FOR DEMO.

Optional demo: Use Dreamweaver’s behaviors to make a button that shows a different image when the user mouses over it (Sample tutorial: http://www.macronimous.com/resources/rollover_images_with_dreamweaver.asp)

>Screen: Artists and designers who have websites with “statements” and descriptions of project-based research along with images.

Camille Utterback: http://camilleutterback.com/
Martin Wattenburg: http://www.bewitched.com/art.html
Joshua Davis: http://www.joshuadavis.com/

>Reading-VERY IMPORTANT TO READ BUSH ARTICLE AND COMPLETE WRITING ASSIGNMENT

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945 (NMR, p.35-48), online: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

Kelly, Kevin. “Wired 13.08: We Are the Web.” Wired News: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html

>HTML editing and overall site design

Based on critique, make changes and additions to website.

>Writing

Create a blog entry that contains your reaction to Bush’s idea for an interactive desk called the Memex.  What was groundbreaking about the Memex?  What was not so interesting?