By now, most folks have surfed the web, but how many folks have developed and published a webpage? This assignment is designed to help you do just that. Your task in this project is to design and publish a website focusing on the issue you have been investigating throughout the semester. Please read
ASU's Webuse policies. However, your course Web site must follow both ASU guidelines and the guidelines for this assignment.
While we will approach this project from the perspective of writers concerning themselves with composition and presentation of a text to an audience (using the broader postmodern definition of "text" as "anything that can be interpreted"), we also will be learning some more technical aspects of writing web pages along the way, including working with various web editors and understanding the basics of HTML code. In so doing, the emphasis will be on the class engaging in a process of "social construction" to decide what are some of the features that make a good web page and how a good web page can best be constructed, rather than on your instructor dictating what you should and shouldn’t do in constructing a simple web page.
Schedule of Steps We Will Follow in Learning How to Construct a Simple Web Page
- Obtain personal web account through ASURITE self-sub process.
- Whole-class discussion of some items that make for interesting and informative web pages. Examine several pages as a class. Introduction to search engines and hierarchical site listings followed by small group activity to find sites on topics of interest to group members. Group members should discuss which sites they like and why and forward site addresses and their evaluative comments to class listserv for consideration by the rest of the class members.
- Introduction to basics of HTML and simple web editors such as DreamWeaver.
- Construction of web pages.
Criteria for grading your course Web site:
- Richness of content - Relevant information, such as name, email address, date of creation, link to home page, copyright symbol, etc.
- Quality of writing- clarity, logical organization, evidence of proofreading
- Good organization - Be sure your Web site has a clear organizational pattern and is easy to navigate.
- User-friendliness - The main page should have links to all required material. Please make sure that all links work!! Your reader should be able to navigate your Web site without getting lost.
- User-friendly layout - Your Web site should have margins, font that is not too large or too small, appropriate contrast between text and background, consistent color scheme (Your course Web site page should have a consistent design.).
- Appropriate graphics - Your graphics should be relevant to the topic and should compliment, not overshadow your written content. Your graphics should not be memory hogs. Your audience will not in a good mood when they have to sit there and watch your graphics load.
- Copyright - You should always cite the sources of all information that you did not create yourself. This includes graphics.
- Project is due 11/2
Useful Resources for Web Design and Publishing:
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