Arkone.org

 

Gina Rheault

mailto:gina@arkone.org

 


Websites:

I have designed for simplicity, working back from what a person needs:

University course websites: Rosenberg Tile Boston CommonELD 3740 ENVS6123

The website for a typical course includes an annotated reading library created with Endnote, a weblog powered by Blogger, an area for publication of student projects,and a set of pages with flawless navigation and redundant references to the class schedule, assignment details, lecture notes and instructor contact information.

I retrofit the first website 3470-2003, mid-course, when it was abandoned by an overburdened teaching assistant. It went from ugly, to ugly functional. Since then the course websites have moved toward richer content, organized simplicity, and student participation.

Academic project website.

NO PARKING, my 2001 master's project in Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Boston was the core of ArkOne.org. ArkOne is an easy word for people to spell and to remember, and it has no real significance. Because the NO PARKING thesis lent itself to photography (aka visual sociology)I put it on the Web. I started blogging in 2003, more for myself than anyone else, and grafted the Blogger core into an environmental design course as an experiment for students doing group work.

Simpler sites :

Emily's Amherst B&B, which I maintain, came from photos made one gorgeous autumn afternoon. Connie Barbour's Migrant Windswas my ancient work,from 2003 until 2007 when Connie moved it to a real marketplace at Etsy.com. Andrea Tamkin's Pet Portraits is completely as designed in 2003.