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Intro to Web Design

Project 1: Linking Narratives

Description

The structure of a website is as equally important as the design of a website. Getting from page X to page Y needs to be intuitive and simple. This structure also needs to be reflected on the back end. Create a site that takes the user through a narrative using text, links, and multiple pages.

PART 1 - CHOOSE THE TEXT Pick a text that can be broken into parts (paragraphs, sentences, words, etc.). The text can be something straight forward like a news article or more abstract like a poem. The text needs to be long enough to be broken into at least 9 pages. Your final site will have 10 total pages. Page one, the home page, will be the title and author of your chosen text and then followed by at least 9 pages of the text. The final page should link back to the first page of content (the second page).

PART 2 - BUILD THE SITE Now weave these distinct units together using many html pages and links. Allow for user choice, branching structures, loops, etc. The linking does not have to follow a linear sequence. See if you can produce new readings and ways of traversing your composition. When linking different parts of the composition together, think of the meaning of each link. Are they linking between similar content? Similar characters? Similar actions? Are the meaning of links consistent across all of your pages? Do you have different types of links? How could these different types of links be indicated? Remember that you cannot add words to the text, the links you create must exist in the original words.

You may include additional materials in the webpages if they add meaning to your sequences of links.

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