Session recording
Welcome back!
We’ll start with a quick round of hellos/introductions (mainly for Eric)—tell us your name, your pronouns, where you’re from, and maybe what you did over break? Eric gets to go first!
This semester
Let’s look at our plan for the class:
Briefly, our next project
To leave some more time for the design and technical side of our next project, we’re going to get a head start this week on our content.
We’ll be using Are.na—a tool for collecting and organizing links, and finding design inspiration. (Here are some of their featured channels, to get the overall vibe.)
Let’s talk through how we’ll use it in the project:
Remember how to make a web page?
We know it’s been a while! So let’s get the blood flowing again—we’re going to make a new “landing page” to link to our previous projects:
- Head to your GitHub and make a new repo,
username.github.ioThis is a special name that GitHub will make directly available athttps://username.github.io/ - Pull the repo down, and add a classic
index.htmlfile - Add your name and links to your previous three projects, nothing fancy
- Pull in our
reset.csslocally, for a nice, clean slate - Add some basic styles, using our old friends CSS variables and a media query
- Commit and push, then enable Pages and add the link to the repo’s About section
Just like riding a (code) bike!
For next week
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Sign up for Are.na and complete the first phase of your Links project, Assemble a collection. Gather the items, tidy the metadata, write a description, and submit a link to the channel:
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We’ll be starting properly into our fifth unit, Interface as Interface. Read both our reading selections, in preparation:
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I Am a Handle
Rob Giampietro, 2012 -
Sometimes It Looks Like a Duck, Sometimes It Looks Like a Rabbit
Jack Balkin, Dan Michaelson, 2012
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Add your reading synthesis for these, as we have done before:
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Last—and we don’t want this to be your priority or a burden—but get your landing page live with working links, if you didn’t get there during class today. These don’t need to be in any way “done”—we’ll be noodling on them over the semester as part of our ongoing exercises. Send us your URL for these, too: