Blog Post 10

Last week in class we saw different platforms we can use for our project and how they all have a

different use and format. We learned about three different styles of websites with the first style

being collection. This style of website is focused on smaller projects and is primarily used in

classrooms. It can be used for smaller projects like our art curation project. Here you can put

images, videos, and archived text in to portray your message. According to the text the websites

associated with this are Omeka, Drupal, and Joomla, just to name a few. We can see that an

exhibit theme website focuses on a particular topic or theme. This would be extremely useful for

our upcoming project. Wix outline gives me the ability to put my data in very easily and gives

templates that are also easy to use. The last style that was discussed was publication which is for

writers to be able to import their thoughts and add the necessary accompanying hyperlinks.

Hyperlinks are very important and give the reader further context of what the author is trying to

say. We also incorporated this into our curation project. We know that interface has a lot to do

with design of a website and how easy it is to navigate a website which is going to be essential

for my website. In the final chapter we see how it’s important for your intellectual goals to be

met and to make sure any of the artifacts I have are analog, which takes time for digitization.

Making the website streamlined is also very important and a change that makes the site look

weird is not good. Documentation is also essential, making a journal to keep track of your data is

extremely useful and vital to the process. Also, putting documents into labeled fields is essential.

And, to sum up, we have to realize the afterlife is extremely important meaning the websites

links and overall look have to stay up to date.