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Due: Friday September 13, 6:00 pm.
Description: Identify a Web page or Web site that you believe has deficiencies. Evaluate the site, and make recommendations to improve it.
Goals: To critically evaluate Web sites and understand issues in improvements.
Length and format: One (or more) HTML pages describing your evaluation criteria, findings and recommendations.
Evaluation criteria: Presentation of your evaluation standards (3 points); description of problems with examples (6 points); suggestions for improvements (4 points); effective presentation including valid HTML (2 points).
Due: Wednesday October 2, 6:00 pm.
Description: Your content authored in valid HTML 4.0+ with a valid style sheet for display.
Goals: To practice with CSS and strict HTML 4.0 and later versions. To gain experience with browser compatility issues.
Length, format and deliverables: Generate valid HTML content using a DOCTYPE of (strict) HTML 4.0 or a higher version. The content can be a single HTML page of as little as 100 words. You can choose your own content. Ideas might include a resume, project page or personal hobby or biography.
Provide two separate versions of the page, each using a different valid CSS. (The two CSS' don't need to have more than two differences that impact the appearance of the page). Provide direct links to the W3C validator to validate your CSS and HTML.
Evaluation criteria: Content (4 points); Valid & effective HTML (5 points); valid & effective CSS (6 points).
Due: Wednesday November 13, 6:00 pm.
Description: Use valid and well-formed XML to present substantial content accessible via Web browser.
Goals: To gain practical experience generating XML and working with DTDs/schema and style sheets. To explore browser compatibility issues with XML.
Length, format and deliverables: Choose substantial existing content. Recommendation is to select an online book from Project Gutenberg or another source, or other content. You can generate your own content if you wish, but it should be substantial (i.e., at least a few thousand words). Images or other non-text is optional.
Using XML, mark up the content using an appropriate DTD or schema. Check it for validity and well-formedness. Utilize a style sheet for effective presentation. Note that you do not need to write the DTD/schema or style sheet yourself, but you must do the content markup yourself. Deliverable is a link to your content, along with notes explaining any limitations (such as which browser to use).
Evaluation criteria: Choice of substantial content (2 points); Valid & well-formed markup (9 points); visually effective and usable (3 points).
Emailed proposal due: Wednesday November 6, 6:00 pm.
Due: Wednesday December 4, 6:00 pm.
Description: Web site redesign or term paper. For the Web site redesign: Identify a real existing Web site and implement a redesign. This may be done in cooperation with the Web site maintainers, or not, as you choose. Assume, for our academic purposes, that you have full copyright permission to the content you work with.
For a term paper, identify a topic of your choosing related to current or future users of the Internet.
Goals: To apply your knowledge from INLS 181 in a substantial and detailed way to analyzing and understanding real-world challenges and issues of the Internet.
Length, format and deliverables: For the Web site redesign, provide a link to a working replacement for the site you are redesigning. Note any content that is not working fully or has limitations (for example, a redesign of an online store might not have a realistic back-end database). Generally, a Web site redesign should consist of at least 20 HTML files and associated graphics, CSS, scripts and other content. Items you are not able to complete can be mocked up or simulated (for example, you might author a form for orders, but not have a CGI program to run the form). 15-30 hours of work should be involved in the site redesign. If you desire, you could contact a real organization with the goal of actually delivering your redesign to them, but this is optional. It is a requirement that the site you redesign be a real, actively maintained set of online Web pages. Also include a page describing your goals and the issues/problems you wanted to solve with your redesign.
For the term paper, this will be an online 'paper' written in HTML. Include at least 15 bibliographic citations (including citations to online materials where appropriate). The paper should be well-written, appropriately formatted (likely in multiple HTML files), and scholarly in nature. Length should be in the range of 3000 - 7000 words (i.e., about 10 pages if done in a word processor and printed).
For both, email your term project proposal idea to Prof. Newby by class time on November 6.
Evaluation criteria: These criteria will be adjusted as needed for individual project variety. Generally, for the Web redesign: Goals & criteria (5 points); Effectiveness of redesign (valid, effective, interesting, etc.) (20 points).
Generally, for the term paper: Good organization and writing style (5 points); adequate references and other supporting materials (3 points); content (17 points).