Semester Project Proposal

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am designing a webpage for the Economics department as my semester project in Visual Communication. The site focuses on South Carolina's economic history during the Civil War era. This is the subject of an ongoing creative inquiry course offered in the department, which I have taken over the past three semesters. Students have gathered a great deal of data and written analyses of the data's significance, but it is not in a format that is easily presentable to an outside audience. For this reason, the department has designated me to be the webmaster of the South Carolina Economic History site.

So far, I have gathered all the materials from my previous semesters in the course, and I am regularly meeting with my economics advisor (who also teaches the course) to keep him informed of my progress. He also will be providing me with new material generated during this semester. I have spoken with the department chair about obtaining rights to a public folder linked to the Economics website, and I should have access to this soon. I have several ideas for the layout and design of the site itself. My second drafted rough layout can be seen below, although I plan to make the site more professional-looking, attempting to keep it consistent with the general layout and theme of the university homepage and the departmental page for Economics.