Hello, maker! Welcome to the Electrate Fuego web design tutorial. I'm glad we crossed paths – for this might be an important intersection on your way to becoming. Through this exercise, you'll learn a little bit about code literacy, computer science, and something called "electracy." Just follow the code comments in the HTML file, and you'll make a really cool web document that will help you process how different discourse communities in your life have contributed to your arrival in this space, virtual and actual, and how they might also contribute to where you're going. By sharing this webtext, we'll meet other people at this intersection, each on their own path to becoming.
In this doc, you'll work through Gregory Ulmer's discourses of career, family, entertainment, community, and schooling (Internet Invention From Literacy to Electracy , 2002.) In Ulmer's text, he elides community and schooling into one category, but we'll separate them here. Ulmer's theory of electracy helps make sense of how we find/construct meaning and connect with others rhetorically in a media rich ecology. Ulmer uses analogy to define electracy, explaining that "electracy is to digital media what literacy is to print."
Before we get going, I would like to give a shout-out to my research buddy Shauna Chung, who helped me develop the original Ulmerian framework we'll follow in this webtext. Are you ready to get started?
Peace and love only, Stephen Quigley, University of Pittsburgh 2020
See My Demo
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Go to the repository
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Click the green "Code" button, and then click "Download ZIP" to your local computer.
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Find this folder in your downloads. Move this folder to a secure place. You will return to this folder to manage your scripts and other assets like images, pdfs, etcetera.
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For Mac, Windows, and Linux, download and/or open a code editor like atom.io or any code editor of your choice. If you use a Chromebook O.S., we recommend Code Pad or Caret. You will find additional information below about optimizing your code editor to work with HTML and CSS.
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Use the code editor to open the index.html and style.css files from your project folder.
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Start working with code by reading through the index.html where you'll find instructions on how to build your own web text!
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So much thanks to Stephen Quigley for all his work on Pitt/Electrate Feugo.
You'll find a modified version of his tutorial here.
Steven LeMieux, University of Pittsburgh 2022