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peterbussch / stalinletters

We are a group from SLAV 1050: Computational Methods in the Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh. We are creating a public-facing website that aims at expanding the reach of a valuable set of historical documents.
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Project Update #9 #11

Open hcasazza opened 3 years ago

hcasazza commented 3 years ago

In this week's meeting, our main focus was on the style/layout of our website. For our home and about pages, we discussed creating bio/introductions for Stalin and Molotov, along with adding some pictures. However, we acknowledged that these pages may become cluttered as we start to introduce our methods for the project. To prevent this, Hunter plans to create a new tab either within the navbar or as a drop-down tab within the about tab. For our letter page, we were excited with our recent adjustments to the table of contents and letter material, yet feel there is still more to do. We had initially changed the background color of this page, but plan to revert to the original, while using this different color as the background color for the individual letters and table of contents, to improve the reading view. Alongside this, we planned to reframe the margins of the letters and attempt to add an interesting hover quality to them. For our conclusion page, we talked about incorporating some svg and/or network analysis of our letters. Though there is some confusion on how to properly use svg, we hope to resolve these issues in office hours, while reviewing the svg homework assignments/answers. Our main goal for this upcoming week is to create some successful bar graphs/network analysis and add the hover quality to our letters.

jog141 commented 3 years ago

Our last week was also more focused on logistics and aesthetics of our site, and we are also looking into graphs we want to implement into our "Analysis" tab of our page this week. SVG is challenging and we also have some confusion with how to properly execute the graphs we want, but I hope your tasks run smoothly this week!

racheljfu commented 3 years ago

I checked out your guys' website and I think you are making great progress on it so far, especially with the reading view (my group and I are still working on that part of ours). However, we did finish our about page and are also planning our methods page and we have structured it a little differently than yours. On the about page, we have biographical information about Emily Dickinson and an explanation of our linguistic resources. We are going to introduce our methods on the methods page itself rather than the about page, but I think it depends what you think makes sense for your own project.

JeremyTygh commented 3 years ago

I think it is great that you are considering the viewing experience of your pages. Having a less cluttered page will certainly aid in communicating your message in a clear manner. Your table of contents for the letters also looks great! I am excited to see how your method of displaying these letters changes as you continue working on it!

gec34 commented 3 years ago

It's great that you're putting in time to make sure the website's design is user friendly through proposed changes to the reading view and consideration for organization with new tabs. I also visited your reading view and it looks pretty good! I'm excited to see the hover quality you may add to the reading view as well, is that going to illustrate the topics chosen to highlight by color?