Wednesday, September 5, 2012

We All Love a Good Timeline


I am even more excited to finally get to work on my online exhibition now that I have found what will probably be a very useful plug-in.  I went to the plug-in page of the Omeka website and at first was a bit overwhelmed.  I had no idea what some of them were actually meant to do (I am not a techno savvy person), and even after looking at a larger description of some of them I am still confused.  When I saw the timeline plug-in, however, I knew immediately that this would be helpful in our project.

We will be working with Playboy Magazine covers and, while interesting, I know that if we were to just throw the covers online it would not be a very classy or educational exhibition (and would not fulfill the requirements of the assignment at all).  This is why I feel the timeline will be so useful.  With it we could make a timeline of the major events happening in the United States at the time the covers in our exhibition were released.  In this way, it may be easier for visitors to relate the covers to a certain period in American history.

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