Weblog #11: April 19, 2005

My "first draft" homepage is at http://mason.gmu.edu/~rharless/WebProject.htm.
  I managed several improvements from last week including the addition of a hand-colored vignette of a wartime photo of my father-in-law. If I can figure out how to do it, I may include this as part of the "header" at the top of the page which would then be the logo for the site appearing on each page. I have ordered a "combat" font from myfonts.com that I will use in the header and elsewhere, if appropriate.
  I also am experimenting with adding links to images of the actual letters that form the basis for the narrative and the site. For today's assignment, I included two randomly selected links just to show how they will look. The writing on the letters has of course faded during the sixty years (!) since they were written but, using Photoshop, I was able to substantially enhance their clarity so that now they are legible. A technical problem that I encountered has to do with the size of the images. I would like to include legible images of entire pages from each of the letters rather than just excerpts as shown here.
  The narrative for the site is probably 75% completed. I have really enjoyed reading my father-in-law's letters along with the newspaper articles, and other contemporary accounts of the events in which he was involved. The letters especially provide a remarkable glimpse into the thoughts of this 24-year-old Texan who participated in these two major wartime operations.

Comments

[James Halabuk]

I think it looks really good. I'd make the text slightly larger, if it were my site, but I think the theme works.