About:

This website was made for Danielle Lawson's LCC 3401 Technical Communications class at Georgia Tech. Analyses and other website content was made by Andrew Crowe, Aziel Ferguson, Christopher Logan, and Jonathan Sheppard.

Site Design and Coding:

This website was manually coded using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and can be properly viewed in all modern browsers. It has been verified in Safari (Mac, versions 1.3.2 and 3), Firefox 3 (Mac and Windows), and Internet Explorer 7. It cannot be viewed properly in Internet Explorer 6, primarily due to IE 6's lack of support for the position: fixed CSS element.

A single CSS file is used for all pages of the site in order to facilitate editing. Only two CSS elements were changed for different pages: the body background and the gradient background of the main content area. These were changed with a few lines of CSS in the header, just following the external style sheet link. The use of the CSS position: fixed element allows the creation of a universal header and menu that appears fixed to the top of every page. Page content scrolls smoothly underneath the header.

JavaScript is used on the individual time period pages. All four sections of each time period are in the same HTML document, and the CSS display: none element is used to hide the three sections currently not being viewed. Javascript embedded in the HTML switches each section's visibility on or off based on which section link has been clicked. For a longer explanation and more examples, visit Willmaster.com's tutorial.

Any copyrighted content on this site (original documents) is reproduced under the Fair Use guidelines for educational use. All materials reproduced on this site are credited to their original source.