This week, I started the website for our project. So far, it’s been less putting content in and more laying it out and figuring out how it should be laid out. It opens with an animated slide of all the photos we have so far. My plan is to use some of these later as well, but have all of them on the home page as well. Now, we mostly have to figure out how we want to convey the information, especially the graphical and chart information. I think the biggest thing right now is it will be hard to get a ton of extra content with the social distancing rules being in place. We could get content from interviews over zoom, but it won’t be easy to get photo content. The only other challenge we’re facing is how to make the graphical information interactive and interesting to look at on the website.
I think the biggest thing I would want to do differently next time would be figuring out back up plans for collecting media, but at the same time, the crisis going on right now is a bit unprecedented and unimaginable so it would have been hard to plan a backup plan for this type of situation. I think, for how quickly and drastically everything changed, we’re doing quite well adapting and will still be able to put a good product forward.