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Technical Stuff
As mentioned elsewhere, the course material was originally developed for a distance learning course taught at Emerson College, through the Division of Continuing Education. The course was an introduction to fiction writing, and ran five consecutive semesters between 2001 and 2003. The materials are all hand coded in what approximates HTML 4.01, though it's pretty rough and ragged at this point. I apologize to those with disabilities as I'm sure the site does not meet accessibility standards. One of my long-term goals for the OpenFiction Project is to address this, but at the moment, it is beyond my resources.
The courses at Emerson were taught using first the BlackBoard course management system, and later WebCT, but neither are required for use of the material. The site was desigened to load directly into the frame of these systems, providing a seamless user experience. This can either be done via a link on the course management system site or by inserting this javascript snippet into a field on the course home page (at least for WebCT), which will cause it to open this site as the default home page when students enter the course:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--//
var
role=(top.pwd_views[0].indexOf("/designer/")==-1)?"student":"designer";
if (role=="student")
location="http://www.tofp.org";
//-->
</script>
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