Web site assignment

You’ll need to create a small web site, using Dreamweaver. Requirements for the web site include:

--A home page, which you will name “index.html”
--Another web page, which will be your online resume (call it “resume.html”)
--Another web page, which will actually be a .pdf version of your one-page print resume
--Links between your web pages
--A “mailto” link on one page
--One of your web pages must include a photo and/or background (with an extension such as .jpg), and also must include the insertion of your .mov file

First, you’ll set up a root folder or www folder, into which all of these pages and files for your web site will reside. This folder becomes your domain, and it will contain all of the elements (Dreamweaver pages, .jpg files, .pdf files) for your site.

You’ll need to use internal links and external links, and a mail-to link, providing your email address. We’ll not be uploading these web sites, but rather will be checking them through the browser/bug check function in Dreamweaver.

During dead week, we’ll attend class to work on this assignment, and it will be due during finals week, at either of the following times:

Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 11 a.m.

You’ll sit with one of the lab instructors and we’ll open your site, to see how it works. Remember, this is a process assignment, so we’re not so concerned about the appearance (although that does matter a lot on a real site), but we’re mostly concerned with giving you a little experience about how a web site works, how the files fit together, and how to use a web composing program such as Dreamweaver.

In terms of content, this site should be a place where you can promote yourself for an internship or job. Simply use current content from your one-page print resume, expand that content for your online resume version, and provide links to work samples (you can use links to the NTDaily.com, or you can paste copy onto a web page in Dreamweaver and reformat it so that it is easily readable). You can make existing work in InDesign or MSWord into a .pdf file, and link to that.

Grades for web tracking are posted

I've graded all of your web tracking assignments, and I've posted your grade to the "comment" link on your most recent posting about your web sites. Only one student didn't have the "comment" function, so if you had an assignment posted on your blog, I graded it. If you didn't have your assignment posted (and not one student has contacted me about an extension), then you received a zero for this assignment. If you have questions, I'll be seeing you during the week after Thanksgiving. Take care and have a good holiday.

Web tracking due this week

Remember that your web tracking assignments are due this week, by 5 p.m. Friday, posted to your own blog. Once I've graded it, I'll leave you a comment message at the bottom of your assignment on your blog.

It's to be 12-15 paragraphs, which should contain some overall analysis and synthesis of your viewpoint about these two web sites, plus your assignment should answer the questions posed in the assignment.