Project 3

Project 3 Standards Based Web Portfolio, Due 12/6

This project asks you to create a professional web presence. In addition to providing you with an important experience in professionalization, this assignment will give you the foundations you need to complete other web-based projects in the future.

It’s OK if you currently have a web site (and certainly OK if you don’t). If you have one already, you’ll be redesigning it according to web standards (you also have a good reason now to develop a new look for your site, too).

Project Goals

    • Develop a solid and sound rhetorical presentation of yourself and your skills, based on your career or field of study/expertise
    • Learn to choose appropriate materials to represent yourself
    • Learn to mark up various texts for structure/semantics
    • Expand your visual skills by developing a compelling visual design
    • Establish or increase your comfort in working with code
    • Validate your XHTML and CSS using the W3C Validators
    • Test and refine your site design based on display on different operating systems (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux) and browsers (Safari, FireFox, Internet Explorer, Lynx, etc.)

Project Requirements

    • At least three substantial pages, for example:
    • A welcome page of some sort
    • Your resume or curriculum vitae
    • A portfolio/gallery of your work
    • Your professional interests and goals
    • A feature page on a project or position you wish to highlight
    • Use the XHTML 1.0 Strict Document Type Definition (DTD)
    • Avoid table-based layouts (though the presentation of tabular data in tables is, of course, OK)
    • NO factory or web-available templates or using someone else’s CSS/XHTML (with or without permission) You are still encouraged to examine sites like the CSS Zen Garden and study their composition, markup, and CSS.

Project Deliverables

  • Your site at http://students.courses.kathiegossett.com/~youruserID/ or other URL you control (e.g., yourname.com)
  • Screen captures of your site on 3 different graphical browsers (e.g., IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari; one browser you test must be on a different operating system, and one must be a v.5 or earlier version browser {Netscape and/or IE])
  • A self-critique memo of your site design, which will include descriptions of:
    • The screenshots of your site on different systems/browsers
    • Areas where you were successful in executing your design
    • Areas where you would like to improve your site
    • Ways that your approach to digital production grew or altered
    • Your overall impression of your project and your work in the class to this point
    • Particpation in the Public Critique the evening the project is due (Finals Week)