For your midterm create a portrait of someone you know or a self-portrait. Do not use images of yourself or the other person and try not to use images of things you own. This midterm is a conceptual problem as much as it is a design problem. How can you communicate something about someone through the literal content of the work? What sort of design says something about yourself?
I read ahead to the midterm and was curious in what medium are we allowed to create this self-portrait? Is this an Adobe project or a xhtml project? Are we supposed to create a web-page to house this portrait or can it be on something as simple as powerpoint?
Comment by IsmaelManzano — February 26, 2008 @ Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:56 pm
The self portrait is a web site.
Comment by joe — March 25, 2008 @ Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:59 pm
Do you mean that we have to design a web about us, our interests, who we are??? OR something that represents us?????
Comment by mbruszewska — September 25, 2008 @ Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:17 am
Do we need to put video in the midterm website?
Comment by trivkin — November 6, 2008 @ Thursday, November 6, 2008 11:13 am
my midterm self-portrait can be found here:
http://understandingnewmedia.com/josephtekus/self-portrait/index.html
-Jay
Comment by jtekus — November 25, 2008 @ Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:03 pm
hi, what are some of the materials we can not use (besides an actual portrait)? can i use the works i did in my design ?
Comment by ychen — April 7, 2009 @ Tuesday, April 7, 2009 1:34 pm
You are free to incorporate whatever materials you like.
Comment by joe — April 7, 2009 @ Tuesday, April 7, 2009 5:19 pm
where can i find examples of the mid-term because im kind of lost
Comment by SaraM — April 11, 2009 @ Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:41 pm
hi prof, i having little trouble with displaying the entire picture as the background. when i looked at window size it says:
Window width: 1382px
Window height: 754px
Viewport width: 1366px
Viewport height: 552px
is that mean the window only displaying the image at 1366×552?
the image always have white spaces on both sides, and it was partly cut off at the bottom.
Comment by ychen — April 16, 2009 @ Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:57 pm
For this project, are we suppose to make more than one webpage or different links and if so then how many links.
And also, what would be the best size for the background images to fit the window. Im having problems with fitting it to the window.
Comment by scole — April 17, 2009 @ Friday, April 17, 2009 11:55 am
i see, that means i need to set the background picture at 1366×552 then(since the background is static).
by the way, can you tell me what’s the the command to remove the frame edge for pictures.
Comment by ychen — April 17, 2009 @ Friday, April 17, 2009 11:57 am
is there a minimum number of webpages we should have for the midterm?
Comment by brandong — April 17, 2009 @ Friday, April 17, 2009 12:08 pm
Please post to the front page, not just in comments.
If you are using an image as a link, in other words wrapping an img tag in a anchor tag it’s default rendering in some browsers will be to have a border. To get rid of that border do the following:
a img{
border:none;
}
It you are talking out a border around a background image you gave the body element you probably need to get rid of the default margin.
body{
margin:0;
}
Comment by joe — April 17, 2009 @ Friday, April 17, 2009 2:23 pm
134.74.236.60/~web_mon/sherese_cole/midterm/
Comment by scole — April 27, 2009 @ Monday, April 27, 2009 5:29 pm
http://134.74.236.60/~web_mon/sherese_cole/midterm/
Comment by scole — April 27, 2009 @ Monday, April 27, 2009 5:30 pm
http://134.74.236.60/~web_mon/sherese_cole/midterm/transportation_index.html
Comment by scole — April 27, 2009 @ Monday, April 27, 2009 5:33 pm
http://134.74.236.60/~web1_mon/sherese_cole/midterm/transportation_index.html
Comment by scole — May 18, 2009 @ Monday, May 18, 2009 4:45 pm