This week has been very productive for my group. We are nearly done with our website, which makes me really happy as it’s been a a tough process getting the pages to look exactly as we envisioned. I can say that it’s tested my resourceful-ness especially with the image gallery I wanted to include for both Slaughter and Murray’s introductory bios. I couldn’t alter the HTML in a way that would allow me to integrate an image slider into the pages so I created small icons for the images I wanted to include and attached links to them that redirected to “secret” pages where I could host the image at it’s original size and provide captions.
see ex: http://slaughtermurray.umwhistory.org/slaughter
Yesterday I also joined my group mate Kathleen to record the introduction video for the website which we’re hoping to have done by next Thursday. Otherwise things are coming along well, my other group members are continuing to record some more letters this week and our StoryMap is almost complete. Other than some more website fine-tuning these are the three major things we hope to complete by the project due date. It’s amazing how fast the weeks seem to be racing by at this point.
