The new page layout of your own design must be comfortable to read on-screen, it must be useful for showing through a data-projector onto a large screen as a demonstration to an audience and it must be printable as an A4 page with the look of a magazine page.
The page you make will be a page from a "web-book" called Cyberfrance. You have your table already made with statistics about growth in home PCs in France. I will now show you two further documents which I want you to work with. One is in French, so you may have to use of the translation tools to gain a better understanding of the text. The other is a book review and background on a writer who specialises on Cyberculture topics.
First have a quick look at the two documents soulard.htm and levy.htm. The French document gives you some statistics on the use of computers and the Internet in France. The web page uses a simple linear text to recount the figures to you. I'd like you to take some of the percentages and re-present them in table format in your web-book page.
The long book review and brief biographical background of Pierre Lévy is probably quite difficult to read on-screen. It covers a range of types of information (i) background and context of the writer, (ii) Lévy's concept of humanisation, (iii) his archaelogy of social communication, (iv) virtualisation and 2 examples of virtualisation.
Please take one of those from the list (i) to (iv) and mediate that into a short textual piece for display on your new web-book page.
Give lots of thought to the look of the single page and the arrangemenment of the 3 distinct pieces of information you display. Arrange borders, tables and re-use some of my graphics, say, the eiffel.gif to communicate to your readers that this is a page about technology in contemporary France and Europe's Information Society.
Suggested Response Click here to see my design for this information and to read my notes and tips on making this page, please click here.
