Getting Started Reading
As this week’s reading was generally a primer on web site design, I found myself soaking it all in as I read. I’ve never worked with HTML or even used a software package to design a site. The closest I’ve come is drafting copy for the web that gets handed off to a designer who uploads it to the site! However, for my semester project, I’m planning a web and digital audio component so this lesson was important to me. While I’ve encountered terms like flash or RealMedia before, they seemed to take on new meaning when I consider them as potential tools.
Given my limited “hands-on” background in web site technology, if I can handle this, any historian can. However, as I noted in my response to Priya’s blog, the funding discussion in the chapter was very realistic, illustrating potential limitations of digital history. Unfortunately, the ability to fund a project may determine how elaborate a historic web site can be rather than the design experience of the historian! But since historians already seek grants regularly to fund more traditional research efforts, this is very familiar territory to navigate.
February 20th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
It’s abit off-topic, but you mentioned grants, so I’m wondering if you’re familiar with any good sites to find information about grants and other research funding?
February 21st, 2006 at 11:37 am
Funding is an appropriate concern. Although I was recently informed that prices for server support (I dont even think that is the right term) is fairly resonable. However as an AU student you can create a site using your G drive and the schools network supports your page. However who knows how long that lasts considering most of us are graduating soon.