In this unit, a few elements need to be in-place before we explore the development of the wide-site to any great detail.
Background and Theory (Re-search): Let’s investigate the strategy/ies presented by Christopher Vogler’ The Hero’s Journey and Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Read Chapter 3 (Ulmer):
Exercise: Homepage
Ulmer recommends the development of a homepage, the central web page for any additional work in the course. Students will find that the University is comfortable with and dependent upon Microsoft FrontPage 2003 for the development of web pages, so let’s begin, there: the development of a web page.
Designing an Autobiographical Webpage using FrontPage 2003.
How to Create a Password-Protected Web Page from Microsoft.com
Having created a “homepage” be sure to save your text often and title the page <index.html>, so any additional page that you create will be linked to the “core” page. “Save as” an “html” file obtained from the “drop-down, “Save As” menu.
Next, Ulmer suggests organizing your page as a narrative or “story,” so in order to give those random, chaotic, and otherwise disconnected anecdotes from your life structure, he suggests the framework applied to the screenplay will invite the reader/viewer or audience into dialogue with the writer. If you have skipped over the external links to Vogler and Campbell, then you will need to return to them–and READ. Create a navigational page, or outline page, for your site by using Vogler or Campbell’ model for storytelling.
After reading some about Mr. Joseph Campbell, I had to find out more. I find this man extremely interesting. Im still lokking up info. on him and some of his books. Thanks for the introduction professor. Got any more material to check out about him?
BILL MOYERS: Do you ever have the sense of… being helped by hidden hands?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: All the time. It is miraculous. I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time – namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
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“My general formula for my students is “Follow your bliss.” Find where it is, and don’t be afraid to follow it.” ~From the Joseph Campbell Foundation homepage.