Eric Wardell's Digitial Humanities About Page

For this website I have used a number of different programs and tools. The majority of my work has been through text edit on my Mac, but I've also begun to utilize Kompozer and Cyberduck for uploading my pages to the community server.

To locate the hexidecimal codes for the CSS I've been looking at this list of codes and colors and then choosing accordingly. The majority of my page is done in #8B7355 which creates a brown color. I made this deicision because I wanted a color that matched the theme of the story by using a color similar to the bear we saw to rest in the background of the different story pieces. In that same vein, I decided to use earthy colors for this page and stuck with #999999 which is a slightly darker grey, much like the rocks you see me standing on in this picture.

On my index page instead of using hexidecimal codes, I am using a picture of the campsite we stayed in as a background image. Also, my reading response pages are in #1C86EE which is a bright blue. This is subject to change, but my current thinking was that this demonstrates an evolution of the color we sometimes associate with digital things, and digital things that are malfunctioning. This idea is evolved from William Gibson's idea of a dead channel on a TV screen emboding non-working tech things as presented in Neuromancer..

I've currently been using Kompozer significantly more  to design my pages and add the necessary CSS to make the best looking and most user-friendly site possible with a uniform color scheme and links that make the site easy to navigate. Also, a great tool for me has been the Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML book. To find out more about this great resource, visit the Head First Labs.

Here's a small example of a hand-drawn site-map and some diigo links to the topics we discuss in ENGL 606:

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