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COP4813 Assignment 12 - Complete your site

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 Assignment 12 - Getting Content - Complete Your Personal Site

 

Objectives

 

To create a fully functional web site

To utilize content resources in web site design

 

Assignment

 

This is the assignment where you compete your personal web site. The design aspects of the site are completely up to you. I want to see a well thought out and designed site.

 

The site should have an objective and an audience. In the past a common objective and audience was "About Me" and audience "Potential Employers" - but you can exercise creativity here. You can make your site a tribute to "Coheed and Cambria" with the audience being C & C fans (I took this from one of the current student sites). It can also simply be your class site, your personal site, or your online resume.

 

There are required elements that you must demonstrate on your site (at some location). These are listed below;

 

1. Feeds - The site should consume a feed (or feeds) from external sources. These sources should be selected based on your interests and the site. Examples are the home page of this wiki (feed coming from Facebook). Also if you look at the bottom of the page - you will see a feed from Solar World News. This does not mean load a single page with a bunch of feeds - the site should have multiple pages and adding a feed to an interest help keep content fresh. (note I have a feed below, and on the main page, both a Facebook feed and a Globe with info about visitor locations - these are examples)

Loading http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rss/solarenergy.rss…
2. Images - Effective use of images and banners to support the aesthetic of the site are important. Every site you create represents you - so well done images placed well help make an impact. You may want to rotate images (easy to do) or create a collage.  
3. Navigation - Any user should be able to easily navigate through the site. You can use menu's, breadcrumb, or any other navigation technique - make it appropriate to the site and easy to use.  I like this article on navigation - http://www.jessicarosengard.com/8-website-navigation-best-practices/  - I will be looking for clean, intuitive navigation. Every page should have a navigation link back to the main page.
  1.  Assignment 12 - Getting Content - Complete Your Personal Site
      1. Objectives
      2. Assignment
      3. Information
      4. Estimated Completion Time
      5. Supporting Lectures 
      6. Questions and Answers
      7. External Resources
      8. Grading Criteria

 
4. Content - Once you have determined your audience, make sure the site has content that would be of interest to your audience. You can do that through the feeds (as described above), images, information, links, etc... When you submit the assignment - make sure you specify who the audience is. It is OK to be the audience, if you are making a web site for personal use with YOUR links, and YOUR news, and YOUR feeds - then you are the audience and it can be your site.

The Daily Nerd

Loading http://dailynerd.nl/feed/…
 

 
5. Advertising - This is not placing ads - but actually hosting ads on your site. You have to be able to pay to keep this site up and running. Hosting advertising is one of those methods. This one is optional, but you should at least look at Adsense to do this  

 

 

Your site must be;

 

1. Be obvious (who is it for and what is it about)

2. Section 508 Compliant - http://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist 

3. Use Javascript and CSS effectively (three green checks in web developer)

4. Be easy to navigate (I will be browsing)

5. Interesting (at least to your audience)

 

Information

 

There are many sites about creating good web sites. I think you will have enough information to be able to complete this just fine.

 

Estimated Completion Time

 

About 20-30 hours

 

Supporting Lectures 

 

All lectures on the lectures page COP 4813 Lectures and I will produce how to lectures on questions asked on the bulletin board . If you want to do something that you have seen on another site - ask on the BB.

 

Questions and Answers

 

 

 

External Resources

 

Always one of my favorites - http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ - you should visit and read, if only for the laughs. My favorite was the page unavailable for Staples (no that wasn't easy!)

 

This site has a great checklist of items to handle to ensure the site is ready - http://webdevchecklist.com/ 

 

 

Grading Criteria

 

If it meets all criteria above, it is a 10.

 

 

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