Final Project: Web Site
Overview | Possible Topics |
Required Documents | Assessment
- You may choose one of the following project topics or submit an idea of your
own, but all proposals are subject to approval of the instructor.
- Your project should include all of the documents listed below.
- Your project should include a home page, and multiple sub-pages accessible
with frames or other navigation elements.
- Your project should include all the major concepts and skills studied in the course,
e.g.
text styles and formats, links, tables, images, forms, style sheets, etc.
- Organisational Website
- Create a website that provides a web presence to an existing small
organisation such as a business or NGO. It can include an overview description
of the organisation, news, products and services, partners, downloads, support,
frequently asked questions, contact information, etc.
- Educational Website
- Create an interactive website to teach or share information about an
academic or industrial topic to a specified group of learners, with objectives,
content, interactive quizzes, discussion questions, user comments, links to
sources of more information, etc.
- Online Book
- Create an electronic book on an academic topic with table of contents,
index, chapters, illustrations, etc.
- Personal Website
- Create a website about yourself: anything you want to make public about your life, work, writings, activities, interests,
photos, family, friends, favourite sites, etc.
- Tourism Website
- Create a web site about your town, region or country of origin, with links to pages
describing some tourist sites of interest, digital photos, a clickable image
map, etc.
- Newsletter Archive
- Create web-based versions of all past newsletters of UMU or other
organisation.
- Campus Map
- Create a clickable image map of the UMU campus or other organisation with photos and descriptions
of each building and room.
- Project Proposal (15%)
- Describe your proposed project, including
goals,
target audience,
content
goals and sources (specific books, people, websites, etc.). See
lecture 4a.
- Design Specification (20%)
- Describe how you will design your web site to meet your proposal goals,
including schedule of tasks to perform, development
tools to be used,
diagrams, outlines and other information as appropriate. Be sure to separate
functional specification (what it should do) from technical
specification (how it is implemented). Consider many aspects of
design you have learned, including visual and
graphic design, usability and
accessibility, site structure and
navigation, and writing. Your
description should give a vivid picture of what the site will look like and
how it will work. Justify any design decisions you make; explain why
you chose each aspect of your design.
- Usability Test Plan (10%)
- Describe questions you have about the usability of your site and design a
test which will answer those questions. See
lecture 10a.
- Usability Test Report (5%)
- Describe the results (observations and findings) of conducting the usability test with at least three
subjects and justify the resulting changes (revisions) you made to your site.
See lecture 10a.
- Web Site (50%)
- The final version of your site, including all files and documents. Include
a summary of what you learned about the process of developing your site, and
how you would do it differently (if you could do it again or had more time).
- Quantity/amount of work contributed
- number of files, pages, images, links, words, documents; file sizes
- Quality of design
- achieves site goals and meets user needs
- image/visual, navigation and organization, page layout, typography,
content and writing style
- usability/accessibility, coherence, authenticity, correctness, accuracy,
clarity, simplicity
- Technical elements demonstrated/included
- image creation/editing, page creation, HTML editing, scripting
- CSS, JavaScript, Java, forms, frames, tables, fonts, colours, links
- Documentation
- justified design decisions, explained design tradeoffs, used feedback from
users, reflected on process
- matched documents with final website product, acknowledged content sources