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posted by Jay on January 30th, 2007
in on images, site launch, web 2.0, website
We’ve been busy here in Juxtaprose land. Depending on how one counts it, we’ve got at least three clients’ sites about to launch—and, in the last few days, we’ve each built a bunch of web pages in the push to launch.
In the midst of this, our longtime friend, Gawain Weaver, a photograph conservator, needed a web page online for himself. So, in some spare moments, I created a page for him and got it online.
Creating Gawain’s web site, all one page of it, reminded me of how revolutionary even a single web page is. Gawain’s is just a little text, a couple cool photographs (one is a photomicrograph, technically), and a few links. But, voilà, we now have “Gawain online.”
No matter how much hype we’ve seen over the dot coms, or blogs, or web 2.0, or social network sites, etc., we’ve barely begun to appreciate the revolution of the web page. I mean, technically, there is no such thing as a website or blog—there are web pages, linked together.
I think, sometimes, we talk and think in terms various kinds of sites because we just can’t handle the truth of the web page! ;-)
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nice, and timely post, jay! i just had a conversation about web sites and blogs, and how each have their place. blogs are such the rage that sometimes the value of static web pages (i.e. no social interaction) are lost. i mean, i don’t care so much what the head chef thinks–i just want to check out the restaurant’s hours and menu!
first, nice site. the blue-green-orange background is awesome.
second, when i google “Gawain Weaver” the page you all built is number 2. that means that anyone who knows how to use google can find and contact gawain. cool.
this is the first year that i’ve replaced student-built web sites with student-built blogs in my courses and so far it feels pretty good. i really like how updating their blogs is not only easy, it is *expected.*
that said, i completely agree with you and sarah (”i just want to check out the restaurant’s hours and menu”). there is something so perfect about a web page, especially one that occupies a single page. sweet.