Brainstorming

[lollardfish]

I'm building a new website for the Dept. of History (and American Studies) at Dominican.

I need /one/ image for the front page.

What should it be?

Comments

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Something with both old and new in it. An Anasazi site with modern tourists?

clio?

[regularpapi.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of images of clio, the muse, in different period styles. Trick would be to find one that isn't already the image of a history dept's webpage!

or...

[regularpapi.livejournal.com]

You could use my Perry the pear! Or Fighty.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Dry dusty old books with illegible but boring titles on the spines!

K. [*joke*]

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Sailing ships; 18th century version roughly. Because those were the highest expression of the technology, and most people couldn't tell them from 15th century models, and they changed *everything*.

[sleigh.livejournal.com]

Are you looking for a background image over which text will go, or something separate? An old map would be nice background, maybe with the opacity rolled down a bit so it doesn't interfere with reading the text.

I love me my maps!

[regularpapi.livejournal.com]

I was also thinking about some kind of engraving of a scholar at a book wheel, or maybe an emblem from an emblem book. There's one, from Geffrey Whitney's _Choice of Emblems_, about how time changes everything, that has a baby and an old man as icons of time's transformations.

http://www.mun.ca/alciato/whit/w167.html

These have the drawback of being black and white, so you'd have to have a colorful design around them.

[regularpapi.livejournal.com]

That's a great image. I wonder if clio isn't too marginal though--might be ideal for a classics dept. or a western civ class page? Will your faculty care about the implications of the selection? It is very western civ and not entirely history, so if people are inclined to quibble it is quibbble-able.