Brittnay's Blog for "The Digital Past"

I decided to look at the September 11 archive and I found it to be a lot like an archive-esque website devoted to Columbine that I visited a while back to learn about that event.  I like the idea of having an archive because it’s so useful to have a variety of resources in one spot.  If someone is doing research for a project or just for fun, then they could go to one site and it acts as a gateway to find other information and also for possible links to other websites.  This September 11 archive was formatted nicely; the layout was effective and the colors were appropriate and appealing.  They integrated images in the body of the text and did so effectively where it broke up the text in the right areas.  The archive also categorized their data really well; I was able to find what I was looking for quite easily, and stumbled upon things that I wasn’t looking but found out what they were just from the title or information that accompanied it.  This archive is also very. very. very detailed.  The event itself is full of details, but it almost surprised me at how much information there was and how much time it must have taken (and possibly still taking) this person or group of people who work on the archive to organize and valid everything!

I find this site to be well done, and a solid example to model a digital archive if anyone were to make one.