Mapping Petersburg, funded by the University of California at Berkeley, is a unique interactive website that allows the user to explore the cultural, political, and everyday life of St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century. It consists of ten extensive interconnected pathways through the late imperial capital of Russia, with each one authored by a specialist in Russian studies. The website serves as a digital complement to a book titled Petersburg/ Petersburg: Novel and City 1900 – 1921, but is also intended as an independent resource for those interested in Russia academically or personally, and for those traveling to St. Petersburg.
Working on the project in 2009 with a Berkeley University team, I was responsible for designing and coding four (out of 10) individual segments/chapters of the content-heavy website, enhancing already existing sections with added features (like picture galleries), creating user-friendly navigation and "cleaning" the code throughout the site.
I designed the following sections of the website:
Several exemplary pages from each section of the site are presented in the slide show above.
The project director and the authors were expremely positive about the results of my work.
– "You have done an excellent job!"
– "The webpages are really spectacular, and I appreciate all of your
attentive, prompt work!"
– "It has been really easy to work with you, and the site is beautiful!"
– "The new pages are wonderful! Thank you so much for all your work
in helping us finally realize the project beyond all expectations!"
Online at petersburg.berkeley.edu
© Project Director: Olga Matich