Final Web Project

Each student will create a final Web project that will be either:

A critical analysis of a film or TV program
A creative piece (probably narrative, but not necessarily so)
An informational/commercial piece for a real or fictitious entity

This project must incorporate all of the course's lessons in Web design. 30 points. Due Friday, June 5, 10:00 a.m.

At minimum, your site must include the following components.

An opening homepage that loads quickly and pulls the user into your site.
At least four other pages to which the user may navigate.
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.
An HTML table used for layout.
An HTML list.
An HTML form using Wsendmail.
<META> tags for search engines to use.
Images you have created yourself are encouraged, but not required. (I'm referring to images that are not scanned from books, magazines or other sources, or appropriated from the Web.)
An animated GIF (from the Web or created by yourself).
A transparent GIF (from the Web or created by yourself). Interlaced GIFs would be useful, too.
An image map.
Low bandwidth (that is, small) graphics--especially on your opening page. The total size (graphics and HTML files together) for most individual pages should be under 100k. Less is better.
A color scheme (using background colors or images) that is consistent throughout the site.
Different sized fonts. (Try using the <H1> through <H6> tags or <FONT size="n">.)
"Last revised" and contact information (with a MAILTO tag) on most pages (unless there's a stylistic reason not to).

Grading

If your site exemplifies the course's lessons in Web design and contains a satisfactory example of each 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.