Building Websites
The Digital Learning and Scholarship Team can help you create a website to share your research, design, and ideas. A website might many forms, such as a portfolio, a digital book, or a digital exhibit.
At Davidson, three platforms are widely used for building scholarly and creative websites:
WordPress
Portfolios and Blogs
Scalar
Multi-Media Scholarship
Omeka
Digital Exhibits
WordPress
WordPress's versatility makes it an excellent platform for portfolios, personal websites, and course blogs.
Digital Art Portfolio
By Veyane Braugher
in ART 111: Intro to Digital Art
Ways of Seeing Vogue
By students
in ENG 460: Digital Design & Storytelling
Nuestras Historias
By students
in HIS 259: U.S. Latinx History
Scalar
Scalar is a free publishing platform that helps people create essay- or book-length digital scholarship. Scalar “books” can be created by individuals or by a group working collaboratively.
Seeds of Change
By students
in AFR 260: Food, Gender, and Race
Early American Prisons: Archival Narratives
By students
in ENG 445: Prison Literature, Archives, Theory
Here Comes the Sun: Deconstructed Student Essays
By students
in AFR 283: Islands, Archipelagoes, and Black Women's Literature
Omeka
Omeka is a free publishing platform that allows individuals or groups to build digital collections and curate those collections into online exhibits.
The Silk Roads: Crafts and Alternative Narratives
By students
in ART 236: Arts Along the "Silk Roads"
Creative Writing at Davidson
By students
in ENG 422: Creating Narratives
Queer, Black, Intersectional at Davidson:
An Archival Project
By Lily Burdick '19, under advisement of Dr. Melissa Gonzalez