Student Course Project -
Web Site mini-Specification

Project Overview

This course project provides some minimal practical experience applying the fundamentals of Web Publishing and Web Page design presented in the course. You are asked to design, develop, test, and publish your own small personal web site to demonstrate that you have met the primary course goals and objectives. Since many of the students may not have access to their own ISP server where they can publish their site on the World Wide Web, they are asked to turn in a diskette (PC format) containing all the files that comprise their site so the instructor can evaluate their work.

Minimum Requirements

Your Web Site must meet the following criteria. Note that these are the minimum acceptable criteria. You are encouraged to exceed these requirements if you wish.

You will be supplied with a single 1.5MB diskette that you will use during the course to collect all the files necessary to test your site and work on your project from week to week. If you wish to have the Instructor personally evaluate your site (THIS IS OPTIONAL) this diskette must be turned into your instructor at the end of the final class session. It will be returned to you with instructor comments as soon as possible. You will also receive a written evaluation from your instructor via Email within two weeks after the course terminates.

  1. The Site must include a minimum of three pages, a Home Page and at least two supporting or associative pages.

  2. The Home Page must contain links to each of the subordinate pages.

  3. The site must contain both internal and external links. These links must include:

    • Two internal links that link forward and reverse to anchors within the same file.
    • Links to navigate between pages in the local Site, one of which jumps to a point other than the beginning of the file.
    • At least one of the links must use a small graphic button to activate the link.
    • At least one link to a page on a remote site.

  4. The Site must include at least three image files, photos or other graphic. One of the graphics must be used as a link and one of the graphics must be animated. Your IMG tags must use the ALT attribute to allow viewing the site with Lynx.

  5. At least one list, ordered or unordered, must appear on one of the pages.

  6. The use of the TABLE tag must appear somewhere on the site.

  7. The FONT tag must be used at least once to change the characteristics of the text ( ie. Change COLOR, SIZE, FACE type, etc..)

  8. Each of the following tags must be used at least once in the site.

    • HEADING
    • CENTER
    • BOLD
    • ITALIC
    • UNDERLINE
    • PARAGRAPH
    • BLOCKQUOTE

  9. Your site must display your information correctly when viewed using Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer and Lynx.

  10. All the files must fit on a single 1.5MB diskette which limits the size and scope of your site.

Suggestions

Keep your site simple. Remember, the most important thing is to publish information that is accurate, interesting, well organized, and structured to simplify moving around the site.

Don't get carried away with colors and dancing bears. They only tend to distract the visitor and turn them off. Do not try to build a monster site with hundreds of links, graphics, and obscure text that confuses your visitors. Your instructor is primarily interested in how well you can apply HTML to web page design and publishing.

Don't attempt to design a site that chronicles the entire history of World War II in living color.