Home Page Requirements
The requirements for your home page project are simple:
- Your home page must consist of at least four separate web pages. The first of these pages (the one you want visitors to see first) must be named default.html or index.html. All the pages, obviously, should be linked so that a visitor can navigate among them.
- You must include at least one graphic element that you create or scan. That means you must scan in a photograph, shoot a digital picture, draw a picture and scan it, or create some other type of digital artwork. (Taking someone else's digital picture and including it in your home page is not adequate to meet this requirement.) Scanners are available in the CIRCA labs and in various places around the college. See us if you have trouble locating one.
- You must include at least one "internal" link and at least one "external" link. That means you must have at least one hypertext link to a document that is part of your home page presentation and at least one link to a site that exists elsewhere on the Web.
- Every Web presentation, whether for this project or any other, must identify the author and include a "mailto" link. This is a link that tells a visitor who authored the site and enables the visitor to send e-mail to that author.
- The content of your pages, in total, must add up to at least 500 words. The instructors will tell you the specific content requirements for the semester during the third week of classes.
- You must write all the HTML yourself. You may not use software packages that create HTML for you such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver or Microsofts Word (heaven forbid!).
- You must use CSS for design. No font tags are allowed.
- Turn the home page project in on a CD-ROM. Your disk will be returned to you, but It's wise to make a copy for yourself beforehand in case of loss or damage. Flash drives will be accepted, but we are not responsible for loss or damage.
- Lastly, review and follow the Academic Honesty standards for this course particularly as they relate to plagiarism, intellectual property and copyright.
Important Note: Your work will be put on the Web, and it will remain there for the foreseeable future. That means your site will be accessible to the general public on the World Wide Web and likely will be indexed by search engines within a few days or weeks. Therefore, you should not include personal information that you do not want others to see or know about.
Grading:
Your home pages will be graded on the following criteria. Each is worth up to 20 points:
- Content: Is it interesting, well written, well spelled, well punctuated, etc.?
- Design: Is it attractive, easy on the eyes and does the design fit the topic?
- Navigation:Is it simple to make one's way through the pages without getting lost
- Code: Did you use CSS and is your HTML clean and consistent?
- Creativity/innovation: Is it fun, slick, unique, creative, artistic, useful, humorous and/or whatever? Does it make use of the features of the Web? Does it incorporate any advanced HTML features such as tables or CSS-based layout?
Past student home pages.