How to Write a Website
Facilitated by:
Jules Galbraith
Session 1: December 12 • 5:30pm- 7:30pm
Session 2: December 13 • 1pm- 4pm
Session 3: December 14 • 1pm- 4pm
$95 — Limited to 15 spots
Language of instruction: Bilingual
If the cost is a barrier, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
This three-part workshop delves into the fundamentals of HTML and CSS for creating lightweight, static sites with some interactive components. With a critical approach to Web over-engineering in 2.0 and 3.0 contexts, Jules’ approach embraces the handwritten website: get ready to discover this simple, sustainable medium and its expressive and poetic capabilities.
Session 1 — Dec 12
Poetry in Web Design
This session introduces participants to lightweight, artist-friendly approaches to web design and sets the goals for the workshop series. We’ll look at examples of artist websites and poetic or experimental web aesthetics to understand what’s possible with minimal tools. We will guide you along the basics of HTML and key structural elements with a follow-along demo. As preparation for the second session, we invite you to explore Jules’ Open Heart HTML are.na board or conduct your own visual research to gather inspiration.
Session 2 — December 13
Visually Styling a Prototype
Shape mood, layout, and visual language in this introduction to CSS styling. Experiment in building a mockup for your personal page considering interactive behaviours and elements, which we will touch up on the third session.
Session 3 — Dec 14
Publishing and (Light) Interactivity
The final session explores how to bring a site online: custom domains, hosting options, and basic workflows for publishing a lightweight website. For those interested, we will also look at simple forms of interactivity using JavaScript. We conclude with more studio time with our instructor to develop or refine your websites and prepare them for future iteration or publication.
Workshop Requirements
- A laptop
- A general comfort with navigating and organizing files on your computer
Jules Galbraith
Workshop Instructor
Creative web development, 3D modelling and web-based vr, graphic and editorial design, risograph printing, poetics
Jules is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal based artist, poet, and academic. Their work encompasses digital and analog forms of autonomous publication. They are a founding member and Risograph print technician at Cyberlove, a community-oriented tech studio, and an affiliate of Ada X, a feminist artist-run centre. They have attended residencies hosted by SOFTER, World Creation Studio, and the Museum of Loss and Renewal and have facilitated extra-curricular peer-learning workshops at Concordia and McGill. Their writing has appeared in Nomaterialism and NEW: A Journal of American Poetry. At the moment, their research is guiding them gently away from screens and towards explorations of materiality, temporality, labour, and ethical attention.
