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PROJECT
2: "Introduction to..."
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GUIDELINES |
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| The preplanning document for this project is due by 6PM
October 30. You
may submit it electronically. Late
submissions will receive no credit.
The
full project must be uploaded to Plaza by noon
Monday December 8. Late
uploads will cost 10 points per day, and no uploads after Wednesday
December 10 will be graded.
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Specifications:
The topic for this project must be chosen from the
list available on the website.
The general format is “Introduction to ….”, but beyond
this, how you develop your subject is up to you.
Keep in mind, though, that the purpose of your site is
information, so if you are long on visuals and short of facts, your
grade will reflect the deficiency.
Design, in other words, is important, but it needs to be
rendered with the site’s user in mind.
As
with the first project, you must include at least five links to
other sites, as well as at least one book. |
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Note to More Experienced
Students
You are not allowed to
use any tool in developing this project that has not been presented
as part of this class. Your
site for project one must be all-new. Cribbing material verbatim
from another website you may currently have will be treated as
plagiarism.
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Academic
Honesty
Collaboration
with another student or direct copying of HTML code from any source
will result in a failing grade. Plagiarism from other web sites or
print media will result in a failing grade. For
more information about Academic Honesty, see the syllabus.
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Grading:
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5% Preplanning Document |
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Must
be complete and thoughtful
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Preplanning documents submitted late will not be credited
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35% Technical
aspects
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20% HTML
Correctness and readability
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(Tag
names and attributes in a consistent case;Tags properly closed;
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Code
well-spaced and consistently indented)
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5%
At least 4 HTML pages
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5%
At least one page must use borderless tables
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5%
bonus for the use of advanced techniques such as cascading style
sheets, forms etc
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25% Proper
and consistent design/ presentation
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Colors
and formats harmonious and consistent
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Navigatability:
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User
knows at all times where he/she is on site
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Links
are obvious
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No
dead-ends (pages that force using the back button)
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Portability:
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Pages
must work on both Internet Explorer and Netscape;
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The
user’s screen size should not affect what he/she sees
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35%
Content
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Overall
quality of writing Appropriate
use of images/sound/video if usedQuality of research
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Minimum
5 links to relevant other sites; At
least one book reference
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In
exceptional cases, up to five points may be added to the total
grade, meaning that 105 points is possible on this assignment. These
points will be awarded not necessarily for the abstractly most
skilled pages but for achievement with relation to the student’s
level of previous experience with web design.
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