CPSC 110: Project #1

Textbook

The features you use for this project are discussed in Chapter 3 and Chapter 6 of our textbook. As with Lab #1, your word processing experience should serve you well for this project.

Rather than consulting the book all of the time, it's probably better to experiment with Dreamweaver on your own, using the intuitions that you've built up from your word processing experience. If you get stuck, then use the book.

Personal Home Pages

Personal home pages are pages where you describe yourself and your personal interests or anything else you want. The labs and projects throughout this course will have you create several versions of your home pages.

Your Home Pages

Create for yourself a home page. The home page should give a little bit of information about yourself, but mostly it is used to organize other pages for more detailed information. Check out these example home pages:

• Home page of Jeremy D. Frens
• Home page of Harry Plantinga
• Home page of David Laverell
• Home page of Randy Pruim
• Home page of Joel Adams

For now, you will create a very simple home page that just lists some of your interests.

Create a new page in Dreamweaver.

• Using the formatting toolbar, Put an H1 heading at the top of the page that says something like "The Homepage of Me" where you should probably replace the word "Me" with your actual name.

  Underneath this add an H2 headling that says "My Interests".

• Again, using the formatting toolbar, add an unordered list. Unordered lists are a simple way to organize information on a Web page. Use an unordered list to list your interests on your home page. The list should have at least two levels to it. For example,
  • Reading.
    • Mystery.
    • Romance.
    • Science Fiction.
  • Watching movies.
  • Watching tv.
  • Playing video games.
    • Tomb Raider.
    • Half-life.
• Change the colors of the page. Use the Modify -> Page Properties dialog to do this. Be careful with the colors that you pick. It is important that the readers of your page be able to see the text that you write, so make sure there is a good contrast between the foreground and background colors. A good rule of thumb is to keep the background a very light color and use a darker color for the foreground.

Save your home page as index.htm on your floppy disk.

Schedule

Tables are another great way to organize information on a Web page.

Start a new page in Dreamweaver that you will save as schedule.htm.

Add an appropriate H1 heading at the top of the page (like "Spring 2002 Schedule of Me"). Then, using the object toolbard, create a table that shows your schedule for the semester. You can use this schedule for inspiration, but feel free to experiment with your own formatting.

Use some color in your table to make your schedule easier to read.

View Your Pages

Be sure to view your pages in a Web browser to make sure they look okay.

Turn In

Turn in printed copies of your home page and your schedule. Make sure your name, course number (i.e., "110"), section letter, and "Project #1" are printed clearly on the paper. This is worth 15 points. The due date is given on the schedule page.

Other Projects

Start working on the email project; you must start working on it this week. Read over the Web project.

Schedule page --- Lab #1 --- email project --- Web project

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