TCF389 New Media

Interim 2000

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Final Web Project

• A critical analysis of a film or TV program.
• A creative piece (probably narrative, but not necessarily so; could be poetry, artwork, etc.).
• An informational/commercial piece for a real or fictitious entity.

30 points. Due Friday, June 2nd, 10:00 a.m. Place your site on a Web server and turn it in on a floppy disk(s). We will view and discuss your projects in class.

For examples, see last year's projects (U. of Arizona).

Your site must include the following components.

1. An opening homepage that loads quickly and pulls the user into your site.
2. At least four other pages to which the user may navigate.
3. A navigation scheme so that the user may move around your site effectively.
   • E.g., a navigation bar or index or hypertext links to the site's components.
4. An HTML table used for layout.
5. An HTML list.
6. An HTML form using Wsendmail.
7. <META> tags for search engines to use.
8. A minimum of two images you have created yourself. These may not be images scanned from books, magazines or other sources, or appropriated from the Web. Scan your own photographs or use a digital camera to create original images.
9. An animated GIF (created by yourself).
10. A transparent GIF (created by yourself). Interlaced GIFs would be useful, too.
11. An image map.
12. Low bandwidth (that is, small) graphics--especially on your opening page. The total size (graphics and HTML files together) for most pages should be under 100k. Less is better.
13. A color scheme (using background colors or images) that is consistent throughout the site.
14. Different sized fonts. (Try using the <H1> through <H6> tags or the SIZE attribute with the <FONT> tag--as in <FONT SIZE="+1">.)
15. "Last revised" and contact information (with a MAILTO tag) on most pages (unless there's a stylistic reason not to).
16. A character entity--such as a copyright mark © or accents on letters (é, ñ, ü).

Grading Criteria

In grading your Web pages, I will factor in your level of prior experience with computers and Web design. What I am looking for is how well you have absorbed the lessons of the class and the effort you have put into applying them to your work.

1. Do images display properly and links function correctly?
2. Are there spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors?
3. Is it well-written HTML code? That is, is the source code easy to read (and, thus, easy to edit later)?
4. Does the page load quickly? (Are images as small as possible?)
5. Is it functional and attractive? Does it make a strong impact?
6. How well does the layout look on a 800x600 screen? (Would it look okay at 640x480, too?) Do the images look really horrible on a 256-color monitor?
7. Does it use the elements presented in the class tutorials? Does it make creative, original use of those elements?

If your page exemplifies the course's lessons in Web design and contains a satisfactory example of each required component, you will earn a C; if it implements these components in a better-than-average fashion, you will earn a B; if your site presents this material in an excellent manner, you will earn an A. Sites with unsatisfactory or missing components will earn D's or F's.