Welcome to BAN Web Training! Hello world.

How to present work on the web, easy ways to get started. Taught online with Laurel Schwulst in two sessions

Training administered by the British Art Network (BAN), 2024

From Laurel —

In the first session, I’ll present. I’ll share how the web became a resource for sharing information, especially in the context of academia and research. I'll introduce you to some basic concepts of markup languages HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and what you need to begin building your own website. It might be helpful to consider metaphors for what a website can be, too. We'll talk about hypertext, a history of the web, and accessibility. The world wide web, after all, "aims to give universal access to a large universe of documents." I'll also weave in my own work over the years, and point out some helpful resources and articles, should you need them!

From Anthony (20/05/2024) —

Thanks to everyone who attended our first session last Friday. A recording is available for a short-time for those who missed it. Please get in touch with Anthony to request access. In the first session Laurel presented on Prof Dr Style and introduced some basic ideas on how to conceptualise the web as a space and how it is contructed. Here are some websites that we looked at:

  1. Gossip's Web
  2. diagram.website
  3. The HTML Review
  4. Alt Text as Poetry
  5. info.cern.ch
  6. Mindy Seu
  7. Finnegan Shannon
  8. Tiffany Sia
  9. Harm van den Dorpel
  10. Laurel Schwulst
  11. Olia Lialina's 'My Boyfriend Came Back from The War'
  12. Olia Lialina's 'Summer'
  13. Special Fish
  14. Are.na

From Laurel (21/05/2024) —

In the second session, you'll practice creating web documents. Utilizing the knowledge acquired in the first session, you'll pair this with your own ideas and begin creating for the web. In this session, we'll focus on practical situations which may arise and look at examples in real time on the web.

To get started, you'll need two things:

  1. a Text Editor (downloadable software)
    Such as:

  2. a GitHub.com Account
    Make sure you've verified your account via email

Specifically, we'll walk through a few demos, which you can use as bases or create something entirely of your own —

Demo Inspiration Code
HTML Skeleton A glass of water Code
Demo 0 tosic.com Code
Demo 1 mindyseu.com Code
Demo 2 shannonfinnegan.com Code
Demo 3 alt-text-as-poetry.net Code

Other favorite websites to view source or inspect:

  1. websitesite.xyz
  2. elliott.computer
  3. reticular.info
  4. benjamingood.net
  5. benkinmont.com
  6. cristobal.space
  7. danluu.com
  8. words.html
  9. text.npr.org
  10. janeling.work
  11. analogsea.com
  12. earth-boxes.html
  13. urlpoetry.club
  14. elliott.computer/recipes
  15. clairebergey.net

From Laurel (29/05/2024) —

Thanks for joining in the web workshop the past two weeks! I hope this helped begin a pathway towards learning more about websites and making them yourself with HTML and CSS.

Please note all the resources from the workshop will remain on this website (https://banweblearning.net), for at least the next year. My own teaching website (https://veryinteractive.net) also has plenty of resources, which you're welcome to explore.

If any of this piqued your interest, note that there are always current events going on about the independent web. For example, later this year in September, the next iteration of a symposium called Naive Yearly will take place in Slovenia. (I spoke at last year's, which took place in Copenhagen. If you're curious, you can experience the 2023 talks here.) See you there 🌻

From my <html> to yours,

Laurel
https://laurelschwulst.com