Assignment 2: <img>
In Assignment #1, you created 10 hyperlinked text-only web pages which described a journey from your room to our classroom, stopping 10 times en route. Now, pick one of the places you stopped and describe it thoroughly with images. These must be your own images. You must use 100 images to show this place on campus the way you would like it to be seen.
Design and program 10 hyperlinked web pages which use 100 images to describe one place on campus.The <img> tag was only introduced four years after the world wide web was launched. Images, or at least inline images, were not part of the web as imagined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. Images were added by the team at the University of Illinois who developed NCSA Mosiac — Mosaic was the first browser to allow images and text on the same webpage. This was was a surprising suggestion, controversial even, but users loved it and Mosaic took off. It is hard, almost impossible, to imagine the web today without images.
In Assignment #1, you created 10 hyperlinked text-only web pages which described a journey from your room to our classroom, stopping 10 times en route. Now, pick one of the places you stopped and describe it thoroughly with images. These must be your own images. You must use 100 images to show this place on campus the way you would like it to be seen.
Week 1: Start one place where you stopped. This should be a place on campus you like for whatever reason. Decide what is particular about that place. And then start making images. Make LOTS of images. Start to think about what images belong together and organize these on their own webpage. Consider what images might be related by a hyperlink. Organize all 100 images over your 10 webpages. You will produce 10 image-only web pages (no text! none, not even a little — make your images do the talking) so that someone else can see this place how you want someone else to see it. You will be articulating any number of possible ways to see the place with the compound eye of 10 hyperlinked web pages.
Week 2: Based on feedback, adjust your collection of web pages to make a coherent (visually rich) whole. Remake or supplement your images as needed
Week 3: Finish your html pages and be ready to present. Hand draw a site map for your 10 webpages which shows how each links to the other using only a pencil and an 8.5-inch piece of paper.The goal is to learn more basic HTML and CSS, to consider about how you can visually communicate with images alone, and to appreciate and realize the proper magic of a good img.
