my website and critique

Okay so I got my web site set up. It’s very plain but I put a picture of my 5 month old daughter:) here is the link: http://mason.gmu.edu/~cshort1/

As for the critique there were so many choices… it took me forever just to pick one. I really liked RedRidingHood and Storyland. However, I chose The Fall of the Site of Marsha. I don’t know why but I thought no one would write about it. The fall of Marsha site is about this lady Marsha who built a site for angels. She has some sort of weird obsession towards the angels and is inviting them to check out her site. Her page is done over three different time periods: the summer, spring and fall.

In the spring of 1998, it looked like a regular web site. She explains how she always liked angel stuff, which seems pretty ordinary because a lot of people are a collector of angels. However, she says that things weren’t doing to good in her life because she lost her father and job last year. Her friend Bits told her to design a web page and her husband could help her out with the HTML codes. Overall when you first looked at summer, there is nothing wrong. The World Wide Web has many sites just like hers.

However, when you take a look at the spring and fall. It’s like WOW! What is going here, supposedly the angels were taking over the web page and they would write mean things about Marsha but then Mike would go and scratch it out, but you can still see what they wrote. In the summer they accused her of neglecting her father and that she was sinner. The angels kept writing that Bit’s is on their side. Okay, well at least the summer was readable once you clicked on the fall; it has to be read many times to even understand what those angels were writing. They had completely taken over the page, adding the letter "X" into everything. This freaked Marsha out so bad she was not even contributing to the page anymore. Bits and Mike wrote that she is resting and under medication.

The most change is the obviously the destruction of pictures on the site, the angels are all twisted around like someone went and cut up the pictures into pieces and then tried to paste them back together. In the summer and spring Marsha’s personal picture was still normal, but by the fall the picture of her was blurred and she looked liked a crazy lady.

The fall of Marsha’s site was a little creepy when the web pages became corrupt, but at the same time quite humorous (which I’m not sure if it was suppose to be). The author use links to help the audience understand what was going on and to reveal things about Marsha, like her husband cheating on her (the link was "private doors"). It was also creative for the author to break the web sites down into three different seasons because this way it was evident the changes that were occurring.

I can’t say I loved The fall of the Site of Marsha, but there was definitely something about it that intrigued me. After taking a look at some of the other electronic collections, I noticed that this was easy to understand and it didn’t require flash or any type of downloads. All you really had to do was read and click on two links.