This page describes the class project involving Web publishing.
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Due Date:
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
You will be expected to give a brief, in-class presentation of your Web
project during the week of May 5.
No late projects are accepted.
Once the project due date/time passes do not
corrupt or alter your files until you have received a grade.
Your project is due at the time that your class starts on May 5.
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Project Theme:
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Decide on a theme: you can do a personal page,
a hobby, your major, or some other topic that interests you. Once you have decided,
begin working on it as soon as you can by gathering information and images.
Some other possibilities are to design a Web presentation for:
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a nonprofit organization
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your favorite charity
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a sporting club
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a small business who has volunteered to be a guinea pig.
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Examples:
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Here are some examples of final projects that were submitted during
previous semesters that I felt were well-done. (Please note that
these
are just some of the many that were well-done...)
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Amount of Writing:
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You are to have at least 2,500 words that
you wrote appearing in the project. These are the
words that appear on the screen (do not include XHTML tags, words in a
document you link to, etc.). This amounts to about 5 typewritten
pages. We will not strictly enforce this requirement but keep things in
this ballpark.
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Style of Writing:
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Use an appropriate writing style for the Web as described in class.
Include consistent headers and footers for pages
associated with the project.
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Other Required Items:
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Use client pull to initially display a description of
what your project is about. This page should describe your project
as well as list the features you used that you want me to be aware
of such as: forms, frames, tables, JavaScript, image maps, original
graphics, etc. Call this file clientpull.html and make sure that
you link to it from your project link on your homepage (last entry in your
unordered list of assignments for the course).
Let this page display for about 15 seconds (longer if your description is
lengthy) and then have the first page of your project load automatically.
(The page that loads automatically should be called
project.html.) Also
provide a hyperlink to the first page of your project in case someone (me)
does not want to wait the amount of time specified to load the
project page.
Recall that
to load a page automatically, you will need to use the META tag.
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Use a linked CSS style sheet for presentation. (Embedded and inline CSS styles
can be used to over-ride some of the linked rules but your linked style sheet should
specify all of the presentation details.)
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Include at least 5 images.
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Include at least 5 "outside" hyperlinks, i.e., links to pages that you did not create.
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Include at least 5 different .html files that you create.
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Each page of your presentation should
include the date/time stamp as well as the clickable XHTML validator logo and the clickable
CSS validator logo.
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Include a mailto link so that readers may send you email directly.
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Include a form that uses cgiemail for feedback.
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Default location:
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The default is that we will assume that the first page of your project
is project.html under public_html.
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We will assume that the client pull page is named
clientpull.html under public_html.
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Evaluation:
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Content, quality of writing, how well the theme ties together,
presentation, overall feel, creativity, and how well directions are
followed. These items are rated according to the project
evaluation sheet.
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However, grading these projects will
be subjective; it is, in fact, the only subjective portion of the course.
We will be considering originality in addition to creativity as well.
© McGraw-Hill 2009.
All rights reserved.
This presentation accompanies the book "In-line/On-line:
Fundamentals of the Internet and World Wide Web" (ISBN 0-07-236755-5)
written by Raymond Greenlaw and Ellen Hepp.