Process Paper

The electric guitar has been an important and influential part of our culture. It has changed the music we listen to and in essence, pop culture itself. Therefore we have come to the conclusion that the electric guitar was worthy of the title "Frontier in History." Before the electric guitar, the guitar was merely a backup instrument. It did not project very loudly, and therefore, could not be used for many applications. The need for the electric guitar was present, and the technology was available, it just took the bright minds of a select few to come up with a prototype. The following is a summary of the process we went through to create our project.

At first we were unsure of the media that would best represent what an impact the electric guitar has had on our society for our History Fair Project. After weeks of deliberation, we decided that a web page would be the most interactive, informative, and enlightening way to present our topic.

First, we decided to host the page on RickLollar.com, Rick's personal website. From there we proceeded to design the look and feel of our website. We choose to use Adobe Photoshop 5.0, an image creating program, to do the graphics. After the graphics were designed, we coded our main page using HTML 4.0 and Java Script 2.0. We were happy with how it turned out, so we were sure that we had found the right look.

Now we proceeded to work on the content of our pages. We used some information from the Smithsonian Institution site to help us on our pages. The Rickenbacker site was also very useful. They all had a few pictures that we used for our pages. After this, we converted our information into HTML code using Allaire Homesite.

After we had created the main framework of the pages, we checked over the content itself to make sure that it contained everything that we wanted to get across with our project. When we were absolutely sure that we had our content in order, we checked the HTML coding for browser compatibility and syntax. We finally corrected all of our coding errors, and we were ready to upload this information to the Internet. We used an FTP client called WS_FTP. This program took the files off of our hard drive, and put them on the server so that they could be viewed on the Internet. We ran tests, and concluded that we were finished with our project.

In summary, we believe that the history of the electric guitar was relevant to the topic of the history fair in the fact that it changed our music, and our lives. We used information from websites and books to create an informative website explaining the history of the electric guitar, and why we believe that it is a "Frontier in History."