CPSC 110: Web Project

Writing personal home pages is one thing; putting together Web pages for a particular issue, topic, hobby, or interest is slightly different. People reading pages on the Web expect home pages to be a bit playful, but a unified Web site must also have a unified design.

This project has you create a simple unified site of your own for any interest you might have.

Raw Requirements

Your unified site must have at least five pages.
Each page must be at least one screen long.
Each page must be well designed.
The whole site must be well designed.
Use some advanced features (e.g., JavaScript, rollover images, image maps, etc.) to improve your site.
Use pictures appropriately.
All text must be well written and spellchecked.

Numerically,

You must have at least five pictures.
You must use have five instances of advanced features.
You must use at least two different advanced features.

Do not put pictures and advanced features onto your Web pages merely to meet this requirement; they must be incorporated logically into the design of the Website. For example, you should not put a Google search (as in Project #6) on the home page for your unified site. It wouldn't make sense. It work make better sense on an "External Links" page that's part of your unified site, but even then that page should be used for links relevant to the topic covered by your Web site.

Your Interest

The interest you pick can be anything at all within the bounds of a good Christian world view. Some possibilities:

Your favorite tv show, movie, radio station, music group, composer, author, sports team, etc. You should have a lot of other Web material on any entertainment interest.
An important issue like abortion, capital punishment, global warming, teacher's salaries, infant baptism, etc.
A hobby like stamp collecting, bird watching, exercising, camping, etc.

The information for your site can come from any source including yourself. For example, you might put up an interest site about your experiences camping: one home page for the site, one page for campgrounds that you've gone to, one page for the equipment that you bring, one page for camping tips (like how you build a fire), and one page of external links to other camping Web sites. Alternatively, you might search the Web for information about camping, and from the various Web sites you get, you collect and organize it into (at least) five pages of information.

Attribute your information properly. If you get useful information from another site, include it on a page of external links that you used to make your site. Indicate clearly on that page of external links what links go to Web sites that you used as source material.

You are responsible for the information that you put on your interest site. You cannot post misinformation, and it should not be offensive. Some interests demand lots of external information to discuss the interest properly. Other interests (like the personal camping Web site described above) may need little or even no external information.

Well Designed

Lab #3 and Project #3 dealt with good design on Web pages. Follow their suggestions since Web page design is a significant proportion of the grade for this project.

There are a few things to keep in mind for the design of a unified Web site. A good rule of thumb, proposed by Web Pages that Suck, is to see what design decisions that Amazon.com have made. If they do something, it's probably a good idea. If they don't do something, you should probably think twice about using it.

Some particular suggestions based on previous semesters of CPSC 110 are found at the end of our local style reference. Ignore those suggestions at the peril of your grade. You will lose a lot of points if you do ignore them.

Hints

Don't wait until the last week to work on this project. We won't cover some of the advanced features until the end of the course, but you can add them after we've covered them. You should have plenty of material to enter into your pages before then.
Five pages is a minimum. If you have enough material that is better organized using more than five pages, then for the sake of your design grade you had better use more than five pages.
Don't throw in JavaScript or pictures just for the sake of throwing them in. Find a place on your site where they make a real difference. Without a good reason for using either one, you end up with a bad design.
Ask your instructor to look at your pages. This must be done at least two days before this project is due. It's never too early to ask for this. You won't be given a grade, but you will be told what problems your site has.
Use the WebsiteGarage to check over each of your pages. Correct the problems that it finds.

Publishing

You need to publish all of your pages into your account just as you've done all semester long. The home page of your interest site must be published as website.htm; you can publish the other pages under any name at all---just make sure the website.htm page links to the others.

There is nothing you have to physically turn in for this Web project. If you can get to your paper from The Web Project Page of Links, then you're all set.

The Web project is worth 50 points. Its due date is on the schedule page.

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