Sunday, April 24, 2016

The final project will be a webpage using Ft. Stanwix (Rome, NY) as the focus during the timeframe of the American Revolution. The unique design of the fort (the four diamond shaped corners) will be locations to click on to see a menu for either the American Colony of NY, the British, the purpose of the fort's location and the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy (Oneida Nation). Within each menu will be a submenu offering more information about each group.

The idea of the website design is to make the page look like an 18th century map, so for the main page I will try to make it look "old". I hope to find a suitable text script that resembles handwriting of a turkey quill tipped pen and ink used during the time period.

At the center of the page will be an aerial view of the fort that hopefully will show the topography of the land on which the fort was built, as this is the reason the fort was constructed by the British during the French and Indian War and later used by the American Army during the American Revolution. Today, this site is considered a National Historic Monument and is under the care of the National Park Service, the reconstructed fort is not original. However, the location of the fort does sit is on the exact footprint of the original for built in 1758.

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