The sun is shining, the days are hot, one perfect cloud rolls by. It's Saturday, and there's bubbling lemonade, but you're too giddy to notice! A vast box comes in from the car and plonks itself on the desk. You watch as ultramarine light shines through its transparent shell; the keyboard is fresh, CDs sparkle, it wakes up, and you do too. Outside seagulls flicker past your window; one perfect day at the start of the world.
This is a guide to Web Craft! The craft of making things on the web, and by proxy, becoming the web, becouse when you make something, you become it too! Here in the dusty afterglow of the early web, while all around often feels like its falling asunder, here is a chance to make things a anew, and to recraft a web that is filled with good things.
Reasons to become a website:
- It's fun AND cool.
- You're cool too (and also fun)
- You are NOT content!
- Its sunny!
- Its rainy!
- Art happens online, and everyone has a homepage!
Reasons to not become a website: you are dead??
What follows is a
community hyper book, collection of links! Unlike a wiki, pages in this book are outlinks to many sites made by many people. The goal of this hyperbook is to collect the knowladge of web crafters around the world, and bring it all together in one spot! If you are just starting out you'll find good information here, and if you know something, or have a guide we are missing, you can
edit this book too!
But.. what is the web?
Frankly, no one knows what the web is! Its just sort of this thing that exists. We know how it's made, and we know how to make it (mostly by using computers). However what it actualy IS, is up to you! What would you be if you were the web?
- If you were a homepage, how would you dress?
- Are you the day or the night?
- Where are your lines and borders?
- When will you wake up?
- Are u a square space?
- Are you words and noise?
- Are you inder 15 seconds?
- Will there be websites when you're old?
- What sacres you about technology?
- What's the deal with playlists?
- If ur home page was a nice soup, what would its ingredients be?
- Imagine if your great grandkids find your home page??
- Imagine if your great grandkids delete your homepage!?
- ABOLISH RECTANGLES
- What if you really were free to make what you wanted?
- What if you were the ocean and you saw the sky for the first time?
- What is the world wide web?
I guess you just have to make it up!
Good luck :^]
