Anyone know or know where to find what type of access/restriction we have on our WAM accounts?

http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/systems/wam/all/

What's the question exactly?

I was wondering what extensions are supported and if we can have a database.

can i have some of the text in the alt tag of a picture rather than just on the page?

Sure, so long as it's for a purpose . . .

I'm doing The Storm for my project and the name Bobinôt doesn't show the accent carrot on my page. Is there some way to include it or should I just replace it with an "o"? (It pastes fine in wam, but the ô looks like " on my page.)

For special characters, you'll need to enter in a code. Try this chart from Webmonkey:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/

Do you have a preference for which address to send it to? The mgk at umd address on the front page? I've been sending you emails by replying to the mail you send out to the class, and that has a completely different address at umail...

Hmmm. I hope you;ve gotten an answer to that.

I'll hazard a guess since it's so close to the deadline:
From my understanding, the @umd email addresses are primarily forwarding addresses--everyone has an @umd address that is linked to their directory ID; mail sent to umd.edu is automatically forwarded to the user's registered email address.

And the conlusion from that is: it shouldn't matter which email address you use; they'll both probably go to umail ultimately.
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Anyone feel like sharing their projects? I'm curios to see how other interpret and manipulate these stories. I'll be back in an hour and a half to post my link.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~robbie/HTML_Project/home.html

turn up the volume!

(best viewed at 1152x864)

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~esalomon/poe/title.html

You'll need your speakers on for mine as well. :)

I thought yours were wonderful rob and erika. I'd love to see everyone elses. Im curious to see how every approached this whole thing. I knocked my head for a while trying to figure out something creative... I still can't think of anything too interesting. but i hope the one i came up with was a lil bit.

ill show mine considering im asking everyone to post theirs... mines a lil simple though. Hope its enjoyable.

Do me a favor though... when i mean put your speakers loud beforehand? I mean loud... the sound is kinda soft (cough).

www.wam.umd.edu/~voxakis

-Vox

Yes, everyone, please do feel free to post your URLs here. It's a good idea.

Here's my website. I wish I had little more time on this, I could have made it a little more polished. I really wanted to put more interactive items on here. Also, see if you guys can find the hidden "surprises" in the story. Remember to push ALT+F4 to close them once you are done!

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~jhaddad/story/

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~snownix/english/

make sure the sound is on...

Wow... everyone did something amazing... Lindsay, I *love* the implementation of the CYOA concept, that's great... and Erika I kept pressing "mad" on yours over and over again and it started to be painful to try to read the text, that's awesome... now I want to go back to mine and try to think of something more creative, o well.

Mine's at:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~amsalter/Heart/intro.html

That's awesome. All I can say about everyone's work is that's awesome. So I'll say that: "That's awesome."

I post my own project in fear:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~shenw/467-intro.html

I find it really interesting how so many people can have such different views on how these texts can be "visualized," much like one story can have many interpretations in the traditional sense. I just think the "cyber" element adds a new and exciting level to everything.

Here's my contribution:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~halperiv/Tell_Tale_Heart/telltale.html

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~katbatt/poeproject.html

turn your speakers on and up.

mine is kind of boring. i need to get a decent photo editor on this computer.
~jb

best viewed full screen with the text settings at 'normal'. also, have your speakers on and follow the words closely with your cursor.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~zmburns/ENGL%20HTML%20Project/TITLEPage.htm

zak

man that shaking page thing freaked me out. nice job everyone.

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~annkel/engl/caskhome.html

*just boggles*

Erika, I thought the sane/mad thing was especially brilliant, and how you keep introducing new elements onto the 'mad' side each page. It's very close to how I wanted to do my version of the story... you just did it so much better!

Those are so cool... Annie I love the images you used, those are awesome, such atmosphere. Did anyone at all do the Mark Twain story? Seems like we almost all with with dear Poe...

Thanks, James (and everyone else who commented). I've seen a lot in these that I wish I had thought of as well! I'm really impressed with how we can all create such different but still insightful treatments for such a small selection of stories. Pretty inspiring, this. :)

Now that I've had a few days to get this project off my mind I finally took a look at what everyone else did. There's some really great stuff. Very cool.

Here's mine. It's sort of simple since I'm new to all the stuff one can do with HTML. But I think it gets the job done. :)

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mbonnell/htmpproj.html

haha. okay, lemme try that again:

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mbonnell/htmlproj.html

Oh, PS. Best viewed as a full screen.