The Ol' Brick Wall

[tigg]

Being the now-motivated (ha!) summertime grad student that I am, I made it to campus this morning to do some work on the technology-related project I have

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[siennajm]

now, wait a minute. how many friends do you have who know photoshop well? (like myself, for instance.) give a call if you need.

[tigg]

i literally had no idea about your photoshop proficiencies! thank you - this is really helpful. i think i'm going to just try CSS and HTML, but I will give you a yell if i return to photoshop.

[turkeygirl16]

Photoshop is evil! Just kidding. It's actually an awesome program, I just don't know it as well as InDesign or Illustrator even. But, I can answer some basic questions if you want to send some via e-mail. :-)

[tigg]

Thank you. :) I'm thinking now that I can probably just do it in CSS and HTML - which is easier for me, and probably makes more sense in the long run. :)

[greenminions]

Did you post yesterday on H-net about being stuck for ideas on formulating a research question?

[tigg]

You found me! Yes. :)

[greenminions]

My advice, which is rather basic is to think about your project in terms of the other historians who have generally worked with it.

What are they arguing? Do you want to back it up with more evidence? Do you want to refute a particular historian's argument? Will you use similar sources but in a different way?

Or are you trying to legitimize and break ground with a new topic and simply (not that simple really) justify its worthiness for historical inquiry?

Maybe these are obvious, but they are good basic starting points it seems.

[tigg]

Thank you; these *are* very good questions. I am basically working with a lot of new ground, so the whole "what's the point? what's the payoff? why is this important?" angle is crucial - particularly for the department I'm in (which, for the long run, is a good thing, but starting out, it complicates things).