Website adjustments

[dhowe]

GENERAL:

Header ("GenerativeSawndip") should be a link back to the home page on every page

Hyperlinks (on homepage for example) should change (perhaps to slightly lighter color) on hover, so that people know it is a link

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PAGE: https://stevenzhou01.github.io/GenerativeSawndip/About.html

Clicking on image should make it larger (it is unreadable as is):

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Text Edits:

For the pronunciation-matching character, I use "regular expressions” to search for letters. Let's take the word "Bouxcuengh" (the Zhuang people) as an example. First I lookup the phonemes for the word, using the International Phonetic Alphabets (IPA) system. For "Bouxcuengh", the phonemes are "/pou˦˨ ɕuːŋ˧/". Second, since Zhuang words can be either monosyllabic and multisyllabic, I check if the phoneme string contains one or more spaces. If so, then it's a multisyllabic word, as in the case of "Bouxcuengh". Third, according to the commonly-used Soundex phonetic algorithm, it is consonants that primarily affect pronunciation similarity. Therefore, I match the consonants of the syllables for pronunciation, or the first IPA phone if the syllable doesn't contain a consonant. The table below demonstrates the mapping from the Zhuang alphabet to Chinese pinyin. Some letters may correspond to multiple pinyin letters, so, in these cases, the algorithm randomly selects one of the options, and then returns the pronunciation-matching character.

[dhowe]

PAGE: https://stevenzhou01.github.io/GenerativeSawndip/CharacterGenerator.html

Character parts overlapping:

Also happens on: https://stevenzhou01.github.io/GenerativeSawndip/ExamplesofGenerativeCharacters.html

Rules

Rules, e.g. "Phono-semantic compounds" should be hyperlinked to a textual definition/description/example for the rule

Typo

(lanaguage) -> (language)

Add loading gif, which shows while your sketch is loading...

[dhowe]

PAGE: https://stevenzhou01.github.io/GenerativeSawndip/ExamplesofGenerativeCharacters.html

How many of your rules are represented by these examples?

Rules, e.g. "Phono-semantic compounds" should be hyperlinked to a textual definition/description/example for the rule

Text should be 'Choose a word:' then the pull-down menu, then move the mouse-over instructions below the character display

[dhowe]

PAGE: https://stevenzhou01.github.io/GenerativeSawndip/TheOrphanGirlandtheRichGirl.html

Not sure if you can do it personally, but would add a lot to hear the spoken version (an audio file) of the fairy tale in Zhuang

Minor grammar issues:

"This is a story written in the generative characters" -> "This is a story written using my generative character system."

"Use the mouse to see the characters' meaning" -> "Mouse-over individual characters to see more information:"

"The Zhuang texts:" -> "The Zhuang text:"

[dhowe]

PAGE: https://stevenzhou01.github.io/GenerativeSawndip/index.html

Description needs to be longer and more descriptive: Perhaps 3 sentences describing the project instead of the single current sentence: 'Generative Sawndip is a generative art project creating new Sawndip characters for the Zhuang minority language.'

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Perhaps organize the linked/bold items into some kind of menu or TOC ?

[StevenZhou01]

PAGE: https://stevenzhou01.github.io/GenerativeSawndip/TheOrphanGirlandtheRichGirl.html

Not sure if you can do it personally, but would add a lot to hear the spoken version (an audio file) of the fairy tale in Zhuang

Minor grammar issues:

"This is a story written in the generative characters" -> "This is a story written using my generative character system."

"Use the mouse to see the characters' meaning" -> "Mouse-over individual characters to see more information:"

"The Zhuang texts:" -> "The Zhuang text:"

All the 6 rules