By Avery<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

I asked Jan Blodgett, librarian and archivist at Davidson College; my friend Lucy Havens, senior Information Systems major at Carnegie Mellon University; and my friend Zach Dionise, senior Econ major at Davidson College; to review my digital project.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Jan and Lucy reviewed my project while it was in its infantile, Neatline-only stage. After explaining how much text, including text not specifically related to the network, was going to accompany the project, both agreed with my idea to house the project in WordPress, with the Neatline site embedded onto a WordPress page.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Additionally, Jan helped me identify more sources in which to find bibliographic information about the men in the network. She pointed by towards church directories and the Davidson semi-centennial catalogue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lucy commented further on the aesthetics of the Neatline portion of the project. She liked the clean and simple design, but wondered if I could make the text:image ratio more proportional. She thought the screen put too much emphasis on the text instead of the image. Unfortunately, I did not have time to learn how to make this change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Zach reviewed my project at a much later stage, after I had built up the WordPress site around the Neatline exhibit. He said that he thought the site menu was clear and functional. He liked that I included links in my texts to outside sources and that they popped up in a new window. He also commented that the design was clean, simple, and uncluttered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The most problematic thing he found with my site was the iframe embedding of the Neatline exhibit. The WordPress Theme’s width constraints made the exhibit looked squished and impaired its function. I suggested that instead of an iframe, I could put a static image on the site with my analysis and then advertise a link to an interactive version of the map (the Neatline exihibit. Zach liked the idea, but suggested I get someone else’s opinion as well. So, I took my laptop down the hall and asked my roommate, Tucker, what he thought about the iframe functionality. He agreed with Zach that the iframe was dysfunctional and thought the fullscreen version of the Neatline exhibit (the public-facing view hosted by Omeka) presented the network more successfully.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I am planning to take Tucker and Zach’s feedback and use a static image on my WordPress instead of iframing the Neatline exhibit in. I will have a prominent link to the Neatline exhibit so that users can explore further, fullscreen, in a new window.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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