Website Gallery

What gets built here

All the websites below were built by UNM students and faculty using Amaranth and Xanthan templates. They show the range of work that can live well on the open web. Get in touch if you have a project taking shape.

Class Projects

Multi-semester project — each cohort builds on what previous students madeUNM site styling baked in via XanthanCard-based navigation through individual building histories

Campus Histories

Spans multiple courses and years of student contributionsPermanent left sidebar with auto-generated table of contentsNew pages picked up automatically as students add them

Metahistory

Object pages with images, metadata, and interpretive essaysThematic essays connecting multiple objects and historical patternsMap-based view of places and materials connected through exchange

The Silk Road

Farmer profiles combining oral history interviews and student-written web pagesCross-course collaboration between qualitative methods and local food systems coursesRecordings archived in the UNM Digital Repository

Farming the Middle Rio Grande

Each page centers on a single historical artifactShows how material objects can anchor historical argument

Medieval Elite Marriages

Map integration with linked individual location pagesGeographic navigation as the primary entry pointStill running without maintenance after nearly a decade

Santa Fe Trail Sites

Workshop proceedings preserved as a permanent public siteShows how event output can have lasting web presence

Histories of the Future

Portfolios

Syllabi and teaching materials alongside research and CVIntegrated blog archiveEaster egg poster gallery

Fred Gibbs

Clean implementation of the basic portfolio structurePermanent left sidebar layout

Jonathan Seyfried

ScrollStories

Dense visual narrative with many layered imagesShows how cultural criticism can work as a scroll-driven experienceComplex interplay of text, image, and pacing

A Cultural History of Arkham Asylum

Accessible starting point for ScrollStory workStraightforward pacing with several imagesGood model before attempting complex layering

Sugar, Emeralds, and Unicorn Horn

Internal demo of the scrollstory formatRich use of botanical and historical imagery

Why Amaranth?

Demo scrollstory using archival UNM photographsGood preview of the format before committing to a full project

Mesa Vista Hall