Justin's Critical Review

Hey Justin.

I apologize for how late this response to your work is. I held off on responding because I kept waiting for you to put up more sections of the essay, thinking that all you'd posted were screen shots. It wasn't until just now that I realized the screen shots were themselves links to individual pages!!! Once again...I forgot to do a sweep of the page!! Grrrrrrrr!!

In any case...here are just a few thoughts and reactions to your scholarly review:

Organization
I like that you've used individual, chronologically ordered screen shots. Given the style of "Faith" itself and the importance of each individual screen, this seems like the most logical and comprehensive way of approaching the work. This clear, simple way of organizing your review made my life as a viewer pleasantly easy. All I needed to do was click on individual screen shots to view your analysis of that section of the work.

Navigation
However, I would consider using some type of navigation bar or hypertext link so that the viewer has multiple ways of navigating the site. As it stands right now, the only form of navigation available to me is the back button. Was this intentional, or have you just not gotten around to it yet?

Style
Again, I enjoyed the simplicity and legibility of the site's style...but you could always toy around with different color combinations and maybe a slightly smaller/more interesting font.

Critical Analysis:
I appreciated your detailed analysis of each screen shot, but was also looking for some tie-in to the criticial theory we've studied. Maybe some theoretical arguments from Hayles' work or from First Person might complement and flesh out your own personal analysis.

Other Screen Shots:
As it stands now, I believe the last three or four screen shots do not lead to linked pages. I guess you'll be finishing out these screen shots in class? Are there any other screen shots from Faith that you plan on analyzing?

Well...that's about it for now. Hope I've not been too nit-picky and that some of this is helpful. Best of luck as you complete your review!

See you in class! :)