The final project for this course will count as two project grades for the 2nd quarter. The project is due Monday June 9, 2008. It must be a different project than your Quarter project. It will require you to work independently for much of the rest of the quarter. You will choose what kind of project you want to work on, to be approved by me.
You should spend some time deciding what to work on, so that it is a project that:
- you enjoy doing about something you are interested in,
- has enough scope that you can make a substantial project out of it,
- does not have too much scope so you aren't able to finish or make it high quality, and
- is useful to the community at large.
You should have a written plan for your project. This plan can be created in Inspiration or you can simply outline the pages and content on a web page. This plan should be linked from your assignments page.
It is always easier to design a web site for a real purpose. There are several areas of the LS web site that need attention. The Activities section and Athletic sections areas that you might be able to work on. If you would like to work on the LS web site, start at the front page and click around until you find an area that needs your help.
You could work with a teacher to design a web site for one of their classes. You could work with a town office or department to create or update their web site.
If you cannot think of an acceptable project, choose a class you are currently in, and make a web site about the class, or about one unit in the class. You could make a site about a book you are reading in an English class, about Rocks and Minerals from your science class, etc.
You will be working on your final project along with our regular assignments. It should be high quality and include the different effects and features you learned in the class. You should use books and on-line help to put in advanced features we did not learn in class. Look at some professional web sites. How long do you think it took to make them?
If you find yourself with nothing to do in a web publishing class between now and the due date for this assignment, you probably picked a project that was not challenging enough. What can you do to improve the site or add to the content in a meaningful way?
The Assignment
Create a final project, so that:
- Your final project includes at least five pages, one homepage and 4 pages linked to the homepage.
- Your final project is saved in its own folder inside of your Sites folder, with any images, sounds, and media for the final project saved in this new folder.
- Your final project is well-designed (easy to view, read, and navigate) and well-edited (no grammatical errors and spell check is used).
- Your final project includes (a) links, (b) an email link, (c) images, (d) varied texts and background colors, AND at least 4 of the following:
- tables
- an external style sheets
- sound or other media
- animations
- rollovers
- PDFs
- behaviors
- advanced features not learned in class