Donna's Salon Utopia

Site Structure Summary There will be three main types of metaphors included with this website, organizational, functional, and visual. The organizational metaphor will be of a hair salon and the links will be like different conversations going on inside of the salon. The functional metaphor will be an afro pick. The audience will be able to use the pick to pick from the different elements of the site and to move back and forth through the site. The visual metaphor will be of a waiting room. While the audience has to wait to get their link and listen in on the conversation going on in the hair salon (the organizational metaphor), there will be a picture of a waitingroom. The fourth metaphor will be oral. To simulate the atmosphere of a hair salon, music will play on the site, all related to hair. Such artists like Arrested Development, Des’ree, Digible Planets, Erykah Badu and Nina Simone will be played, particularly their songs about hair. Home Page Set-up for Hairnet: 1. Cutting ...

Pieces of Content and Sorts of Functionality The static elements of the site will include: the homepage of Salon Utopia consisting of a video picture of a real life salon with haircuts, press and curls, relaxers and weaves going on. Ultimately I would like music to open with this page, preferable Nina Simone singing “Black is the colour of my true love’s hair.” The other static content elements will include links in the banner ad to cutting edge book buy, a hair-must resource list, itchin’ for your feedback, the politics of Black hair from Mariame Kaba’s perspective, the politics of Black hair from Donna Kakonge’s perspective, and weaving hair knowledge with other web links. Other elements such as the information in the links will be dynamic. The dynamic elements will include the updating of the hair-must resource list. The feedback will also be posted on-line for everyone to read and respond to, and that will always be changing. Weaving hair knowledge with other web links will also...