Due Date:

• 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.

Project Theme:

• 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:
  • a nonprofit organization
  • your favorite charity
  • a sporting club
  • a small business who has volunteered to be a guinea pig.

Examples:

• 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...)
  • DMc Web/Graphic Design Services by Dan McAuliffe
  • Alex's Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Install Guide by Alex Foss
  • Dusty and The Know by Chris Noyes
  • Comics by Sara Odom
  • A Finer Look at the Laws Behind a DWI by Ashley Clark

Amount of Writing:

• 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.

Style of Writing:

• Use an appropriate writing style for the Web as described in class. Include consistent headers and footers for pages associated with the project.

Other Required Items:

• 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.
• 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.)
• Include at least 5 images.
• Include at least 5 "outside" hyperlinks, i.e., links to pages that you did not create.
• Include at least 5 different .html files that you create.
• 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.
• Include a mailto link so that readers may send you email directly.
• Include a form that uses cgiemail for feedback.

Default location:

• The default is that we will assume that the first page of your project is project.html under public_html.
• We will assume that the client pull page is named clientpull.html under public_html.

Evaluation:

• 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.
• 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.

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