Digital History Project

For my digital history project, I have been organizing my information and deciding what to include and not include. I am attempting to weed out the most important information from each historian that I have on and condense it as well. This is so the reader and/or viewer can examine the information without being bored but intrigued enough to continue to read it and hopefully examine the bibliography to locate more information. But at the same time I am also trying to include as much as information as I can so the reader and/or viewer can understand the point I am attempting to get across about the importance of David S. Wyman's book The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. I basically am trying to make this project to be as thorough as possible and not lack any information that I deem important but at the same time not give the reader and/or viewer too much information to disinterest him/her.

This project also has me exploring different templates and designs I can use to display my argument on the web. I am trying to determine what is easiest for the reader and/or viewer to see and not have any difficulty whatsoever. I am basically trying to make this project as simplified as possible regarding the way it is presented since I have such basic knowledge of how to create and display a website. For the Netdrive account, I had difficult adding layers so this project has so far tested me on what I am capable of presenting online and also learning how to easily put up pictures, links, and organize everything to make it look as professional as I possibly can.

On that note, I am still playing around with the Microsoft Publisher program in order to learn how to put everything in my project together. As usual, I am still having trouble being able to put pictures up and modifying them as part of my project. Even though the instructions seem simple enough to do this, I am still working on why I am having trouble putting up any pictures. I still have to read up on how to accomplish the simple tasks of color and font as well, which I had trouble with when I tried to use Microsoft Publisher to put up my index page with the layers that I added on my Netdrive account. I still have no idea what went wrong but I am hopeful that I can correct those problems and have them fixed to use for this big project.

Regarding my information, I think I still need to do some research on a couple of the historians that I have been thinking about adding to this project from the paper that I completed last semester. I have not officially decided if I want to add any more historians to the few that I already have as well as a section about the author David S. Wyman of the book my argument is based on. I am definitely putting up a section about the author but I am not sure if my research is sufficient enough to base my argument off of. I think right now it is a bit weak but I need to examine my research more thoroughly again and see what I can do about it.