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April 2005

zachry-final

April 27, 2005

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rasmussen_final

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Paikowski-Final

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Fontenot_final

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URL for entries

April 25, 2005

http://www.ryanoz.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi

Posted by Ryan Oswald at 07:50 AM | Comments (0)

adobe's acquisition of macromedia

April 22, 2005

Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's FAQ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia


Posted by Ryan Oswald at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)

For Wednesday 4.13

April 11, 2005

Have 5 rough designs ready to look at and discuss. These should be sketches, imagery (scanned, photography, found) or both. Just be ready to show 5 different directions you are considering for the design of this first page.

Things to consider:
What will be actual imagery and what will be selectable (HTML text). The visual presentation should complement the text, concept, and theme. The graphics should be secondary to your text/content. So avoid designs that may use 1 large graphic. Web design is not print... people aren't going to be flipping pages in a magazine; they are going to be interacting with your text. Clicking one large image that takes the user to another large image is the same concept as turning pages in a magazine. You'll need to integrate graphics with your text; the more subtle you can do this the better. Think of the graphics as supplemental accent to your text.

Posted by Ryan Oswald at 10:19 PM | Comments (0)

Just a note...

April 06, 2005

post your examples here
on this current project: you should really focus on the non-linear nature of hypertext and hypermedia. Your projects should really take advantage of this new media by creating an experience that is not sequential and orderly; that's what old media is for. Play around with your text-reconfigure it, move it around, take it out of context, make it unique! Draw connections between your literature and, art, music, science, culture-everything is inner-connected. To make these connections, your going to need to seek-out these associations; so follow your concepts and see where your research leads you. If successful, this project will have a stream-of-consciousness sensibility that paralles the way we think and remember. So see how far you can push it!

So consider these concepts as you are researching, gathering content, and laying out your rough interaction maps. We'll discuss these ideas on Monday along with writings from Ted Nelson's book Computer Lib/Dream Machines in which he coines the term hypertext and hypermedia.

Also, I will email everyone soon with a login name and password (as well as instructions) for our website so you will all be able to post your own entries to the site.

Posted by Ryan Oswald at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)

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due 4.11
Interactive Narrative
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