Week 7 - Science Links

So we've come up with a name for the website. It'll be "Science Links". Nick came up with the name because it works with our new direction the website will take, which is to link, or connect, the community through science and to explain to people the basics of science and how it applies to our every day world.

We've tried to find somebody to help us develop the website but most of the web designers I know are busy with other projects at the moment. This is no problem though as i've found a piece of software which takes the tedious task of scripting html manually, and allows me to create websites as if I was using InDesign; it's called Adobe Muse.



So far the collaboration has been smooth. It's a combination of what nick has already begun doing at the beginning of semester with his concepts of what the website needs to be and his communication with scientists. My side of the collaboration is trying to figure out what the website needs to looks like, what media we should include on the website and how we will communicate the website to people.

I've begun making the website in with rough outlines and structure to see what we're working with.



We've gone with a space theme, because it relates to much of the topics and reasoning behind science advocation. Space is the final frontier, and our scientific knowledge helps inform the exploration of space, and how we interact with it. Furthermore space exploration and the technology that is developed for it, has always trickled down back into consumer technology so there is an inherent relationship between the two topics.