Small Web Site

Project Description

This small Web site, “The Hell’s Angels Incident,” is a critical analysis of three literary texts: a poem by Allen Ginsberg, a book by Hunter S. Thompson, and a book by Tom Wolfe. In each literary work, the writers describe a party that they all attended with the Hell’s Angels. The focus of the Web site’s content is the differences between these accounts. Like the first small Web site, this was a research project, so it required good sources and proper MLA-style citation. Additionally, I used W3C-compliant XHTML code to write the site and CSS to design it.

Project Strategies

This Web site fulfilled a requirement in my Management Information Systems course. The instructor did not place any restrictions on the subject matter, but I was required to include certain tags, to cite a specific number of references, and to follow a specific organizational structure.

For the Web site, I decided to categorize my pages by author and provide links within the text of each author to all of the others. By doing this, my users can switch back and forth between specific accounts of the event and compare them. I also included a navigation bar along the left side of the site, following the F-shaped pattern that users tend to follow when they scan text. In addition, I chunked text throughout the site, providing pertinent headings, so that users can scan it easily.

Project Access

View screen shots of “The Hell’s Angels Incident.” Both of these files are PDF files and require Adobe Acrobat reader. If Adobe Acrobat is not installed on your computer, visit the Adobe Acrobat site to install it. A working version of this Web site is available upon request.

The Hells Angels Incident
Wolfe
Hunter S Thompson
Further Reading
Ginsberg