Aaaart!: I started on Hypatia's page layout and interactive features. Here rough layout and final character art are now incorporated into the site. Here's some progress art:
You can see what her page looks like in the context of the website in the screen capture below. (Her page is also resizable like the others but I didn't demonstrate that in the video.
Code!: I created the popup system for the interactive features so now when you click on them you get informational windows about the person! I created a general popup wrapper that takes care of opening and closing functions for all popups, then each character has their own unique style of popup based on their work/what century/decade they were alive during. In my screen capture video below you can see Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper and how their popups differ. I also added a new interactive feature with Grace Hopper related to COBOL. Right now its a demonstration in how COBOL's similarity to english makes it easier to understand, even if you don't know how to code and demonstrates the importance of readability by showing what compiled machine code looks like.
Branding!: Finally I spent quite a bit of time trying to come up with an official title for the site (and domain name) that captured the tone and audience that I'm aiming towards. I wanted to make it clear from my title that this is a website focused primarily on women in the field of computer science/technology, but I liked the idea of using "Girls" instead of "Women" in the title for three reasons: 1) "Girls" is sounds more fun and less historical, 2) I tried to draw the characters in such a way that they looked a bit like young girls dressed as older women, to make them more relatable role models for young girls, so "Girls" is a more accurate description of the website's content, 3) I like that the title is in direct opposition of the stereotypes "Girls can't do math" and "Girls can't code"
My two favorites were "Girls Who Built Tech" and "Girls Who Shaped Tech". Right now I'm leaning towards "Girls Who Built Tech" with the domain girlsbuilttech.com. I like the boldness of "Built", it's in your face and direct. My only concern is that "Built Tech" initially sounds like a physical making of machines, rather than the building of an Industry and Field of study. The connecting thread between the women I chose it that they took the work of other engineers and make them interactive and approachable and changed the direction of computer-human interactions. Ada Lovelace didn't built the first computer, but she wrote a program and imagined a way in which we could talk to the machine using symbols and words. I really liked how the word "Shaped" is more abstract and captures this idea of shaping the future of technology rather than physically building the machines, but as a title it isn't bold enough. The url girlsshapedtech also sounds too soft and could be accidentally read as girl-shaped-tech (which my friend thought sounded like weird female robots)