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Karma Catchers!

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This is web assignment 713, “Storytelling Within The Web.” It is worth 5 stars! The assignment reads:

“From the Spring 2011 ds106 class came the idea of changing up an existing web page to tell a new story ” you will be intervening in the code and design of a website of your choice to tell a story. You are not to photoshop the design of the site, but rather intervene in the actual html and CSS of the site—though you can photoshop particular images on the site. Essentially you alter the content of a web page (content, images) to make it tell a new story.

Originally we recommended doing this using the Firebug extension in the Firefox browser, which does work, but is unfortunately easy to lose your work. We currently recommend Mozilla Hackasaurus — install the X-Ray Googles in any browser and use it to re-cast the content of any web page.

When you blog it, include both a screen capture in your post, but you will also need to upload the web files (HTML and media files) to your own site so it can exist as a stand alone URL. (see our older Firebug Tutorial)

Consider using news sites, social media profiles, product pages, movie review pages etc. The simpler the design of the page, the easer it will be (think Craig’s List).”

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 I turned Amazons dream catcher earrings into Karma Catchers for bullies sold by “Stop Bullying Inc.”! I  plan to use this in my Final project as revenge against the mean girls! No one likes getting bullied, and this provides some type of peace of mind to those who are victims. Just wear these pretty earrings and karma will catch up to whoever bullies you! It’s time to give bullies a taste of their own medicine! (DISCLAIMER: These do not exist, this is a lie. Sorry not sorry.)

I used “x-ray goggles” to create this new Amazon product. This tool makes it extremely simple to alter a web page, I think it is extremely cool as well. You simply click on the tool then click on whichever element you wish to change. I see some major plotting and trickery in my future ;)

For this assignment, I changed the name of the original product where ever I saw it as well as the name of the real seller. Then I changed the description of the product to fit my new invention :)

 

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