Penn Week 15
  • Hear from guest lecturer, Connie Chu
  • Hear from Xin about The Hidden Life of an Amazon User

Sustainable Website Conversation


  • Website runs on solar power and occasionally shuts down.

https://ecograder.com/ and https://www.websitecarbon.com/ evaluate your website’s carbon footprint but it’s not a full picture. Like accessibility, sustainability is not a check list.


Activity: Clock

In the spirit of responding to our natural environment, let’s use time as the inspiration for our final activity.

  • Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript you will represent the passage of time in some way, e.g. a clock. 
  • Your clock should represent time in an interesting and unique way. 
  • You may use the Date object in JavaScript to get the current hours, minutes and seconds of the current time. You may also use the day, month, year, etc. in your representation of time.
  • How can you leverage the capabilities of the browser to create an experience that is not possible with a typical clock.

Inspiration










Websites that respond to time


Using JavaScript to get the current time