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Project Web Site
The Project Web Site assignment requires
you to build a Web site that includes at least 6 HTML
pages which reflects some "special interest"
as opposed to a personal or professional Web site. A special
interest Web site simply means that you can choose to
make any kind of Web site that you like, as long as it
appeals to a broader target audience (beyond your friends
and family). This can be a humorous site, a nonprofit
site, a corporate or small business site, or a music/art/literature
site... as long as this publication has the potential
to appeal to a larger audience.
Some students in the past have done
project Web sites on the following topics:
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A humorous
site about a collection of restaurants in New Jersey
known as the "Pasta Triangle" featuring pictures
of favorite servers, scanned "souvenirs" such
as napkins and matches, and stories about funny things
that have happened over the years while visiting the
restaurants with her friends.
- A Web site about horror movies
with reviews, links to other horror web sites, a page
on special effects and makeup design, and a history timeline
of the American horror movie genre.
- A Web site about the 1980's
with images of memorabilia, links to other 80's sites,
lists of the top movies, TV shows, and songs of the decade,
and a page about 80's fashion trends.
- A Web site about garden gnomes
and the garden gnome culture.(View
site)
- A Web site about fitness aimed
toward the college student. (View
site)
- "Unique Giving" a
Web site with ideas on creating personalized, inexpensive
gifts. (View
site)
- A Web site for the town of
Norwalk, Connecticut listing activities, sports, and things
to do for adults and kids. (View
site)
- A Web site for the band John
Lardieri with tour dates, CD purchasing forms, downloadable
music and graphics, bios, and much more. This project
is incredibly well designed with a very precise attention
to detail. (View
site)
Your final project Web site is a chance for you
to demonstrate everything we have learned in class and
whatever you have learned on your own. This includes not
only technical HTML, but also aesthetical and navigational
concepts. This should be a Web site with at least 6 pages.
Now that are familiar with HTML, you
will have the opportunity to create this project in Dreamweaver
in order to utilize the software's site management tools,
as well as JavaScript
behaviors like rollover images or pop up windows.
In addition to programming a Web site,
you will be expected to fully document your work. This
will include project
analysis, target
audience analysis, 3
goals and objectives, creative
brief, architectural
organization, mockup storyboard
or detailed thumbnail sketch, and a style
guide which will include sections for page copy and
header styles, image and navigation documentation, and
hexadecimal color codes. Consequently, the grade for
this project will be based both on the Web site itself
and the documentation you create. This Web site is
worth 25% of your grade.
The grading criteria:
- CONCEPT (25%)
The overall concept behind the site and how well it was
executed. Does this site have information or content that
is useful and original, or is the content easily found
elsewhere on the Web? Is the concept clear? Is it appropriate
to the plan described in the documentation?
- DESIGN (25%)
Integration of content and graphical theme: Are all pages
uniform? Does the graphical look fit with the projected
target audience? Is the content appropriate to the purpose
of the site? This includes navigation, interface design
and web aesthetics; pay attention to details.
- DOCUMENTATION (25%)
Analysis, target audience identification, 3 goals and
3 objectives, creative brief, style guide. Are the decisions
that you made in the documentation reflected in the execution
of the site?
- Programming accuracy (25%)
File structure, default page, linking, images, all pages
should be appropriately titled.
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