Overview: For the first assignment, you will build your first web site: a one-page personal profile. You may want to envision a primary audience for your personal profile.
You will learn how to:
- use HTML (structure) and CSS (presentation) to make a document look and function in a particular way;
problem-solve as a web designer by tinkering, hacking, and thinking of failure as a positive, necessary, and transformative aspect of designing culture - expand your knowledge of HTML by creating an original document and using additional HTML tags for linking and possibly creating lists
- understand the connection between rhetoric, design, culture, and technology and the three readings we have examined this week by using components of Balsamo’s framework of Reverse Hermeneutic Engineering
Please write the following on your page: Name, major, interests in rhetoric and design, career aspirations, and what like to do as a hobby. Feel free to add any images.
Create a personal webspace at: https://neocities.org/ (please use eng317 and your unity id or first initial and last name, i.e. mhannah)
Use heading tags h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, the paragraph tag p, the a tag for linking to at least one other web site, and possibly il tag to create lists.
Additionally, as an extra challenge, you must:
Change the color and font style of your text;
Create a solid color for your background;
This part of the challenge will require you to problem-solve and use other sources and your peers to help you design your personal profile. One way to do problem-solve is to look at other web sites and its code to determine what HTML and CSS was used to make a page look and function a particular way.
Rhetorical challenge: Your personal profile should be treated as a rhetorical document. This means digital design, rhetoric and culture intersect when you consider formal elements such as typography, color, and layout.
Because all human communication is, in one way or another, infiltrated rhetorically, design for visual or verbal communication cannot be exempt from that fact. Although rhetoric has developed as a method that deals fundamentally with speaking and writing, rhetorical principles have been transferred into various other media, as well.