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The Portfolio Show

Posted on | December 15, 2010 | No Comments

PORTFOLIO-REVIEW-ANNOUNCEMENT

4:30PM to 7:30PM at the Openhouse Gallery. Refreshments served.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Openhouse Gallery
201 Mulberry Street (between Spring and Kenmare)
New York, NY 10012 www.openhousegallery.org

Writing Assignment 3

Posted on | October 7, 2010 | No Comments

Begin writing copy for your website. Put your top
five keywords or phrases in bold. Also, put the synonyms you found
during your research and added to your content in bold. How
effective do you think these words are at communicating the concept
of your website?

Midterm: Dante’s Inferno Mini-Site

Posted on | October 7, 2010 | No Comments

Note: This assignment applies to the senior web course: ADV4850 Advanced Web Strategies. The junior course, ADV3650 can choose to use the same topic for their midterm assignment.

For this semester’s midterm (ADV4850) you will be designing and building a website about the story of Dante’s Inferno. The site must be 3–5 pages. The grading will focus on design, creativity, typography, technological experimentation.

The entire text can be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8800/8800.txt

Some other resources to review when designing you site:

http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/images.html

http://www.dantesinferno.com/home.action

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno

Writing Assignment 2

Posted on | October 4, 2010 | No Comments

Using a thesaurus, find two or three synonyms for each of the five words or phrases that you identified in the previous week. Use each synonym in a sentence that can be used on your site, as it relates to the concept of your website. Does the alternate word still convey the meaning you envision for your website?

Writing Assignment 1

Posted on | September 23, 2010 | No Comments

Following up on the list of keywords and keyword phrases you developed for the website, select 5 keywords/keyword phrases that you feel most clearly communicate the overall purpose of your website. For each keyword/ keyword phrase, write a few sentences explaining how the word or phrase relates to the overall concept of the site. Why is this important?

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