Red website: info architecture

Shoe Lore - tagline: Oh, the tales shoes can tell

Goal:  Inform re: shoes and the cultural ramifications from three different time periods and includes three cultures.   Beauty & it's requirements of women through the ages seems to run through history. Red is  color - because it incorporates ideas of pain, blood, sexuality, lust, desire

Present info in simple, well-designed pages which show consistent elements throughout.   Learn how to use CSS boxes to include elements for pages.

Audience:  students in web design class; general public

Content & Functionality  (May omit one of the pages)

Home/ splash page - with keywords from articles eg pain, foot binding, disability, hammer toe, bunions, foot restructuring, 1000 years, sexy, lust

  OR    plain white bkgnd with image of blood splats/drops with "Shoe Lore" and tagline and text for linking to 3-4 other pages:

Bound feet/ Lotus shoes - China: who, why, when  tiny 3-4" shoes worn.  

⁃ Thumbnail - roll over/link  for larger image of woman with bound feet wearing shoes & another of                     lotus shoes.  Might include image of damage done to foot from foot binding.  

⁃ Links to articles of how feet were bound; women who have tiny disabled feet.

The Red Shoes - Hans Christian Andersen  (who, why, when - significance of these Red Shoes for the period)

⁃ Thumbnail - roll over/link for larger image(s) of woman with red shoes, possibly dancing; http://andrewfinnie.blogspot.com/2011/06/swept-away.html  (did illustrations for tale of feet being amputated off the little girl - yikes!)

⁃ Links to articles/site  ; link to the fairy tale.  

Christian Louboutin red soles high heels eg $900!!  Eek.  Who, what, why - cultural significance of these high-end shoes - contemporary period

⁃ Thumbnail - roll over for larger image signature red soled high heels. Include image of woman wearing his high heels

⁃ Links to articles /infoof how feet are negatively impacted eg from podiatrist viewpoint.    Link to women who wear his shoes & their comments eg yahoo site.  Link to  article about negative impact on health from wearing high heels...  Link to USA article on not recommended footwear.

Dorothy in Wizard of Oz's ruby red slippers: who, when, why - it was worn.  

• Thumbnail - roll over for larger image of ruby red slippers.  Might include image of Dorothy wearing ruby red slippers.

• Links to articles/info about significance of ruby red slippers.