The anchor to Carol's string from the first project page is broken,
but when I put it together by hand what's there is not a string of
client pull but a series of pages of quotations from Nietzsche; I can
see a bit of relevance to the project topic, but not a great deal, and
I'm not convinced, on the whole.
There's a problem with markup (quotation marks in an href) on
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~ensp482/tpl4q/dont25.html
and the same problem at
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~ensp482/tpl4q/dont14.html
and possibly also in dont7.html, though I'm not sure. In Tom's string
also, I don't see a particular value to having the first image in that
string be 90 degrees off--why not flip it around landscape and make it
readable?
The zappa image on
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~ensp482/tpl4q/dont29.html
could be interlaced and could be much smaller in image size--try
grayscale, for starters.
The imagemap front end doesn't work: it's marked up wrong, to begin
with, on the html page that contains the image source:
<a href="../htbin/imagemap/phrenology"> in
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~ensp482/bk5e/home.html
should read <a href="/htbin/imagemap/phrenology">, but that won't work
in any case until the map file has been created and until I've written
its location into the server's configuration file (I know you've been
working on that today, Barbara).
Most of the work I see here is Tom's: there are some technical problems
with that work, but I think his string achieves a nice effect at a
minimum bandwidth. It's not a lot of new writing or editing or design
work, even so. The rest of the group? I don't see much, and most of
what I see doesn't work or doesn't seem to fit.
Sorry to be negative, but this is supposed to be the collective work of
several individuals for a whole semester, and it ain't there. There are
some good ideas, but you have a long way to go both in the production of
content and in its arrangement/markup/programming. As I look back at
the project participant's roles, it's hard for me to see where you have
performed those roles in the demo that's up at this point.
This last piece of advice probably comes too late, and probably applies
to more than one project, but this work is not like writing a paper: you
can't leave it all to the end and then cram. Scanning takes time,
research takes time, writing takes time, and if you're learning by doing
in the skills department, you have to double or triple the time you
expect it to take.
As for Project I, I'd advise you to 1) make sure that what you do
include in the final project are a complete set of working pieces with
no broken bits; 2) make the best of what you've got and the time
remaining; 3) do some new writing of your own, so that this becomes more
than a series of quotations; 4) pull your weight across the group--it
looks to me like most of the project personnel have not been producing
much. There may be time to pull it out of the bag, but you have your
work cut out for you.
--John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m