EDCI 591z Web Project: About this Web.
This Web was created to satisfy the course requirement of creating a webpage. As is typically the case, I tend to byte off (um, I mean bite off) an excessively untidy mouthful for every assigned project. Instead of creating a single webpage, I choose to create a "simple" Website. The idea behind that decision was to indicate that the creation of "structure" (and therefore meaning) can be accomplished through HTML 4.0 without the use of a Web Editor as an intermediary. For this project, I have used HTML 4.0 to create and relate the "very basic" elements of Web design in the production of a Web presentation.
Things like navigational structure (i.e. link labels), document headers and footers, as well as the use of color can be used as "tools" to create and depict logically related threads (or related elements of information) that winds its way through a Web. Obviously, (or maybe not so obviously) these threads of data actually represent the meaning or information provided by the Web. The complexity of relating complex elements into an information source is what makes the web so rich in content and so difficult for development.
As a result, the most critical task facing the Web developer is how to create the appropriate interrelatedness of structure and content. The key tool available to the developer to accomplish this task is not a Web Editor or Simple Text or Notepad or HTML. Rather, the developer must rely on the systematic components of DESIGN to accomplish this daunting but thoroughly enjoyable task.
While there are many different ways to deliver document content in an HTML setting, the links below offer a brief summary of the strategy I used to implement this Web.
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