NMS520: Website Design I

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Joy Robinson


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Project 3-Adding to your Website

Project Due Date: Wed 6/9

Description and Requirements 


This project will be your second foray into web design. Again, you will select a technology to use, but this time you will use it to enhance the design of your website. 

Suggestions for Project 3 include:

  • Add your CSS to your blog page and link it to your website
  • Add a new feature, such as picture or video gallery to your website
  • Retool your website's navigation to include use of javascript
  • Your own ideas (described in your project memo

Goals 

  • Further improve competency in working with web site technology
  • Learn to effectively find solutions to issues you encounter relating to web technology 

Deliverables

  • Project proposal (due Monday 5/24)
  • All your website files (XHTML, CSS, etc.) documents posted on the wiki 
  • Snapshots of new (updated) page using Browsershots for Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari
  • Your website viewable through a publicly accessible URL (URL submitted to the Roster page)
  • A self-critique memo that evaluates your project and your progress uploaded to your page on the wiki
  • A final presentation of your project on 6/9


Grading

Your grade will be largely based on your self evaluation contained in your self-critique memo in reference to your own skills and where you started with this project. Thus, everyone must present evidence of the material they have learned and how they have managed to work through the project. 

That said, here are some baseline issues that successful projects should address:

  • Turning in all Project Deliverables (see list above)
  • Validating against the W3C validators
  • Contacting instructor for help with troubles encountered (BEFORE project turn-in date)

Note that...


Your new pages should: 
  • Display appropriately (though it doesn’t have to be the same) across familiar Browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE. 
  • Be uploaded to the Depaul hosting site or to another commercial site 
  • Validate against to section A508 accessibility rules
Your XHTML must: 
  • Use the XHTML 1.0 Strict DOCTYPE 
  • Be semantically correct using valid, structural tags (e.g., headers, paragraphs, and lists) and class/id attributes 
  • Be hand-written and original; do not use Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG editor or any pre-made templates 
  • Not use tables, except for tabular data 
  • Validate against the W3C Markup Validation Service 
Your CSS files must: 
  • Be linked to your XHTML pages via the <style> tag in the head area (no inline styles via the style="" attribute) using the appropriate media attribute value. 
  • Be hand-written and original; do not use of Dreamweaver's CSS property dialog boxes or any pre-made templates 
  • Validate against the W3C CSS Validation Service