After many tabs and windows on CSS and HTML tutorials and hours of experimenting and editing, I have finally finish our group hypertext essay. I like how our original concept for the home page changed from this (click for bigger view): To this: Notice how the extract on the image can be highlighted for my readers [...]

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It’s finally Week 12, technically the last week of my Semester 2. Throughout this semester, I had been learning new things about writing across the media such as using HTML codes to create a webpage that holds the texts and images together. Being in the final week of classes and labs, it is a good [...]

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The hypertext essay assessment is going pretty good at the moment as our group, the Blue Frenzy are on their progress with the webpages. Initially, had created this home page as our draft but soon realize that the sign board wasn’t big enough to fit in the extract: The text font size seemed too small, [...]

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There are times when we want to put links within an image for our readers to choose which page they want to move on to. There are typically two ways to hyperlink an image: Linking the entire image 1. Place the image in the HTML page and save your image at respective host servers. 2. [...]

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So, for this week’s online lecture, Seth had requested us to look at 4 different examples of hypertext essay works and chose which one is our favourite. The four hypertext works are: 1. New Literacy and the Great Age of Code 2. Realism and a General Economy of the Link 3. Hyperweb 4. My Body: A Wunderkammer [...]

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Today’s lab activity was probably the most productive work done in class. We were asked to sit in our hypertext essay group (which are The Blue..wait for it…FRENZY!) and to create a ‘wall visualisation’ of ideas by using Post-it notes. Basically each member are to choose a Post-it colour, as a group think of what [...]

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Tutorial Week 7 (Hugh replacing Seth class). – the hypertext essay will have to link minimum 5 pages together, no min/max words. – must have bibliography – Miek, next Monday’s guest lecturer – used to teach Networked Media course. Used to be an interactive/Information architecture (IA) = user interface design. – basically IA is drawing [...]

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