Storytelling Within the Web

“ you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site, but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though you can photoshop particular images on the site. Essentially you alter the content of a web page (content, images) to make it tell a new story.”

For this assignment I made a google search about cooking up kittens. Before you think I’m totally crazy.. there is a story. I got a kitten this summer, 8 weeks old and all of 2 lbs on a fat day. I’m sure you’ve seen him in my pictures and previous posts. He is adorable, but definitely a bit of a menace, so all summer while I was home my dad would joke that he was only still around because he was too small to eat yet (strange sense of humor in my family I know). Hence the idea of kitten recipes.

I made this site my google searching chicken recipes and then changing the word chicken to kittens throughout the page with the X-Ray Goggles program. Then I copied the raw HTML code for the site, went to my UMW domain site, created a sub-domain, went to files and edited the index file inside the new sub-domain to create the site. I don’t know if this was the way I was supposed to do it, but it worked!

Here is my site: kittens.amelialord.com

and some screen shots:

I thought this assignment was going to be very difficult and decided to take it on at the beginning of the week. Like most things about this class, I was wrong. Hackasaurus makes it so simple to do!

I got the inspiration for this ad during a halloween costume search. I came across the cutest dog dressed up in a dinosaur costume and couldn’t stop laughing. It popped back in my head when I saw the website was hackaSAURUS. I decided that was the obvious thing for me to do. I found the two picture of the Boston Terriers using google images and just changed some of the information on a Craigslist ad.

Craigslist Ad—–WORKING WEBPAGE