I made some decent progress on our website today. I edited the Present Day page to include an updated StoryMap, to which I added images from Wikimedia Commons and Flikr Creative Commons. I am considering adding slides to the StoryMap to include a brief introduction to two more key issues, Medicaid and education, that Senator Hawley brought up in our interview with him. However, the StoryMap is already somewhat lengthy, and I am concerned about possible redundancy once we fill out the rest of the site. I will probably have to come back to the StoryMap after I finish some other pages so I can add or remove slides to make the StoryMap function more as an interactive overview of the current movement.
I also updated the homepage to include an image, and I edited some of the text to remove some potentially irrelevant or redundant information that will be or is already included in other sections of the site. Currently the homepage includes a brief introduction to the movement, aimed at giving an overview of the main concerns and actors.
After some struggles with adding an image to the homepage, I decided to add images to the About Us page just as an exercise in figuring out how to format images nicely within a page. I had some trouble getting the text to wrap around images in a way that made sense, but I mostly figured it out.
I also made some updates to the project contract. I edited the tools and design section to more accurately reflect what tools we are using and the theme we have chosen. I updated the schedule section to include the final contract due date, as well as who is working on what pages over spring break.
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