Feel free to revisit as a reference, but please don’t share widely! 🙂
Review
Why HTML? Why websites?
HTML is sort of like a“raw material” for publishing and communicating on the internet.
Using platforms is less“raw”, but no necessarily bad. Platforms provide connectivity and speed, in exchange for standardization. They’ll have rules(e.g. 10 image limit for an instagram post, a length limit for videos on TikTok…), and you can’t really define the ambiance or the flow of the experience. In contrast, coding your own website comes with more creative freedom, in exchange for a slower process that takes more work. Everything comes with its pros and cons.
HTML was originally made for scientific papers. Now we might say it’s modeled after books.
Artists can use websites to make interactive art books.
Some examples of lo-fi / html-esque webpages
jollo.org - a personal website of an artist named fanfare
Week 3, Agenda
Lecture: HTML
Lecture Recording:
Review
Basic parts of an HTML file:
Demo: Remixing a wikipedia page.