i'm taking a digital lanscapes class and one of our assignments was to look at a website by trebor scholz and carol flax: http://www.arts.arizona.edu/boundaries/. scholz is the amazing curator of the freecolaboration gathering in buffalo new york. haven't heard of this flax lady but she has a cool name, so i'm sure her reputation follows. it's weird being in this course because when i was younger i was a total media junkie. watched a lot of t.v., spent all my money on mens magazines (because they had better art), and spent my late nights exploring the digital art world; 0101010101010101010 x 10. i would go into sites and click on everything. flashing .gif's were my best friends, along with good design. i didn't know much about "code" beyond my stint at the tender age of four with ms dos and tetris. i did know about file directories, so i would go into people's image file directories and look at all their uploaded pictures that they didn't want people to see. often times i would find porn and family photos. or hidden pages. i remember on one artist's website, if you went to the file directory, as opposed to the index file, you would get a similar page with different links.

from my obsession and my large picture collection i would make my own websites with microsoft front page. i would make tables and scale all of the images to the same size, matching them with poetry and scanned drawings. it was good stuff, and i think i probabley still have an archive somewhere.

now in class i'm learning how to do the real code stuff; css, xhtml, java, etc. it will be exciting to do it from scratch, just more labor intensive. do y'all code? what kind of code to your prefer when you're making websites?