Project Proposal: History through 18th Century Clothing
Site structure
The site will have a wide-tree architecture, allowing students to access all main portions of the site from the home page. A constant and consistant main navigation will allow students to navigate among the various sections of the site without having to return to the home page. Sub-navigation will allow students to move about each individiual section. The logical structure and the physical sturcture of the site will not be exact mirrors of each other, this will allow course information to appear both in a stand alone section, as well as being integrated into the appropriate sections. The repetitiveness of this key information should make the site easier to use for the students.
Digital format
The project depends largely on the digital format to make it feasible. The clothing primer could perhaps be achieved with traditional media, although the portions that are graphic intensive would be rather expensive to reproduce in print. The immersive world and the document database are two aspects of the project that could not be done as effectively, if at all, in traditional media.