Updates and New Pages

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Updates and New Pages

CraigMedvecky 16 Jan 2010 16:35

Hi all,

I am riffing off A Young Lady's Own Book in particular the references to proto-feminist chapbooks encouraging misbehavior and redefinition of the feminine ideal. I created a fragment and a tree-top for further fragments at »chapbook01«.

Re: Updates and New Pages

Trent Hergenrader 18 Jan 2010 19:06

Per my assignment, I created a new exhibit in Hales Domes recapping the highly contentious events surrounding the Taylor Falls incident that kicked off the Water Wars proper.

Re: Updates and New Pages

CraigMedvecky 23 Jan 2010 19:13

I love the content; I think you could tweak the layout for the illuminated MS look with div tags instead of table tags. Right now I see a very long narrow left hand cell column and I have to scroll down to see the image in the right hand cell. Another thought is that you could specify a smaller image size or a wider left cell spread. Still another suggestion might be to format a three cell/column layout with the image in the center cell.

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Trent Hergenrader 23 Jan 2010 21:51

I'll have to play with it a little. I admit I think it's a bit curious for wikidot to come up with their own code when HTML seems good enough for the rest of the Internet. I'm having some trouble with the wikidot conventions, since I already know HTML pretty well.

The content needs some editing too. I wrote that in a single sitting and the prose needs to be refined, but thanks for the compliment!

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Lane Hall 24 Jan 2010 02:47

Laws and things of import = bold
people = italic
significant places = not sure… either?

The maps are great. I have a series of water power station pix to post. Any code-thoughts regarding a picture gallery? (thumbnails? links from words?)

Re: Updates and New Pages

CraigMedvecky 06 Feb 2010 15:31

I think they were trying to make it easy for novices to have reasonably robust sites that wont crash or break so they took an object oriented approach. I sort of like it.

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Trent Hergenrader 29 Jan 2010 15:59

Craig, can you give me a hand with this? I'm having trouble formatting the table correctly so the content is fixed in one column while the image is fixed in the other.

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CraigMedvecky 06 Feb 2010 15:29

How do you like that?

If you just have two columns you don't need a table at all the div tags float:left and :right will take care of it. But the key is the percentage widths and paddings all need to add up to 100 (because percentage based) (and percentage based much more stable across different computers) or you will get weird formatting anomalies.

Re: Updates and New Pages

Trent Hergenrader 08 Feb 2010 17:06

Nice! I will check out the code under the hood. Thanks so much.

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CraigMedvecky 23 Jan 2010 20:14

Per Lane's suggestion I started working on a back-story that would allow some integration of his primary documents on the KKK: "I read this account of Klan stuff. It seems a perfect text to use to describe some of the fighting between the Covert Lexical Movement (and Vivid Unionists) vs The Utterance Army (all centered around the Powers of the Waters Act.)"

I started iterating on the (Newlands) Reclamation Project Act of 1939.

Newlands Reclamation

Lane Hall 24 Jan 2010 02:44

I like the archivist/historians touch here. It is useful to see these campaigns take shape! I've been doing some reading about "water witches" which might find form soon.

Re: Newlands Reclamation

CraigMedvecky 13 Feb 2010 16:12

I like the idea of introducing a villain. We have a lot of information about the shape of the resistance but not too much about what they were resisting. Your move to point to those Klan interviews (which make a nice connection between the lyric language "colorist" and "anti-colotist" and historical narrative of white power) really seems to point to a ready source of villainy. I picked the Charles S. Alexander book The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest and drew on it for some historical ideas there.

Waterwars Reading at SAIC

Lane Hall 14 Feb 2010 14:50

I delivered a 12 min excerpted performance/reading at The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute yesterday, and it went well. I wasn't sure how cohesive the narrative would be (sampled and reorganized from this wiki) and was happy to find that people really enjoyed it. I'll reprise it at the next Woodland Pattern reading.

Re: Waterwars Reading at SAIC

CraigMedvecky 14 Feb 2010 15:20

THIS THREAD HAS BEEN RE-FILED:

HERE

Ficto-criticism

CraigMedvecky 27 Feb 2010 15:46

So I am continuing to unravel my exegesis of Dingman's Pond after an inspiring read of Pale Fire. I have as you will see roped a few of you in as critics, of course only to attribute ideas to you and them lampoon those very ideas. It seems like a fun direction to take a commentary on commentary which devolves into a lot of in-fighting by various myopic experts, and so in fairness I have re-architected the page to allow an infinitely regressable system of layered notes — the significane of which is that you can make footnotes to my footnotes and thus argue in character with me within the visible text of the page. Now you will see that numberic marks become alphabetic marks as Notes digress to Annotations but there is certainly no limit. The key here is you use a manual super-script mark and not the actual footnote command when iterating your entries.

^^mark^^ will yield^mark

I'm also using liberal anchor tags:
[[# anchor]]
so that we can link within the page as it lengthens.

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Trent Hergenrader 28 Feb 2010 18:26

Craig, I like this very much and look forward to contributing to it!

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CraigMedvecky 20 Mar 2010 14:35

That would be great. I have made an extensive outline now and I am going to be working on this a lot. I now view it as my niche on this project, and I envision expanding the text considerably within the framework of the Notes. If you want to add new Annotations or edit the Annotations that are there, or add sub-sub-categories, as in Corrections to the Annotations, or Clarifications to the Corrected Annotations, I would say have at it ad infinitum. The only thing I would ask is within the existing Notes to let the text stand as I am in the process of developing that thread. Of course feel free to write new Notes to other parts of the poem, or to hang as many Annotations off my notes-in-progress as you would like. The more the merrier. Does that sound like a fair and reasonable request?

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Re: Updates and New Pages

Lane Hall 22 Mar 2010 13:27

You, Sir, are a bumble-brained pedantic puffball and shall not dictate the framework of my rigorous responses to your addled and feeble exegesis. Your scholarship on Carrick is false from the start, and history will surely slap you senseless.

Dr. Jay Lane