Category: English 351: Hypertext
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Who am we?
Sherry Turkle’s article “Who Am We?,” published in Wired Magazine, begins complicating identity immediately. Turkle begins by discussing the many Sherry Turkles who exist in separate but interconnected spheres. She then alludes, in third person, to having authored Life on the Screen. (Much of this article’s material is also covered…
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Definitely CSS
As I begin my research for the required graduate project in my Hypertext class, I find myself gravitating to two particular web experts: Sherry Turkle (more on her work later, trust me) and Eric Meyer. I was hooked by Meyer’s CSS: The Definitive Guide on page 2. After beginning an…
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Information Architecture and Navigation
In response to Jim’s post regarding the timing of these readings, I do think I understood them better because I already have a sense of what McIntire is talking about. The vocabulary she uses is the vocabulary we’ve been using for seven weeks now, and it helps to reinforce those…
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Reflecting on Krug’s ideas of Navigation, Identity, and Goodwill
On Navigation—————- Personally, I find navigation to be the part of a website that really defines how I think of the site as a whole: annoying, amateur, functional, awesome. And although that ordering indicates a hierarchy, there’s really a fine line between annoying and awesome. Take, for example, the website…
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Layout, Color, Graphics, and Typography … Oh my!
Having read a Robin Williams text previously, The Non-Designer’s Web Book offered lessons that were somewhat familiar to me. I remember loving Williams’ writing in the past; I found it spunky and refreshing. I still think it is, to some extent, but read alongside Penny McIntire’s text, it actually came…
Erin Anne Clark 