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Take some time to observe a familiar object or space. You will adapt this object or space as the organizing principle or metaphor for your first project. Your website will be this object or space. Possibilities include your room, your car, your desk (desktop, drawers, etc.), the Mountainlair, etc. Observe and determine the "shape" of this object or space. You may interpret "shape" to mean appearance, or organization, or experience, or some other principle. One way or another, use this "shape" to structure your website.
Your project will consist of a detailed description of the object or space structured over several web pages. You will upload all these pages to your Arts and Science account. There must be a home page and at least four other pages, for a minimum total of five pages. Each page must include at least two links to others pages in the site. All links must be inline and must follow the logic of the written description, i.e. there should be an association from the link text to the node linked to it. Of course, you can include more links. Your home page, for example, might include many.
There must be a minimum of 500 words of total writing distributed over the project, but there can be more or less writing on individual pages. The writing must contribute to the overall description of the object or space, but you can approach "description" in many ways: specific detail, impressions and feelings, related stories and experiences, and so on. Overall, show rather than tell. Use description to make your reader see the object or space.
Here are a few examples from another semester of ENGL 303. Please note: the assignment was similar but not the same. For example, they were not building their project on the Arts and Sciences server; secondly, they were required to incorporate images and other media, and you do not need to do so (yet). Do not base your project on these, but check them out for a sense of describing an object or space.
