Week Six Project Assignment
The Assignment
Your mission this week is to recreate a page (or site) using the CSS we have learned over the past five weeks of this class. A good starting point is Project 1, Converting an Existing Page, in Eric Meyer on CSS. Another pretty fair reference is the third link in the reading assignments for this week: Web Page Reconstruction with CSS.
Check the items listed under the standard below to ensure your page (or site) contains all the required bells and whistles to pass week six.
The Standard
Here's what we're expecting for the week six project:
- A link to an existing "before" page that contains either no CSS or minimal CSS (no CSS preferred). Select an existing site or page you'd like to convert and use that as your "before" page.
- An "after" page that contains the following:
- Valid XHTML or HTML
- Valid CSS - with no errors or warnings
- A liquid design (no horizontal scrollbar)
- Styled hyperlinks (One set for the navigation menu and one set for the main content hyperlinks)
- Separate styles for printed output
- A multicolumn layout *
* The multicolumn layout for your final project is recommended, but not required. It's an option, and we encourage you to "go for the gusto," but it's not a requirement.
This week, besides looking at the specific requirements, we'll will be evaluating the overall look and feel of your page(s). That's very subjective, but we'll be gentle.
One Peer Review
Yep, that's right... A slight twist this week. Choose a project you would like to review and stake your claim. A good way to do that is to post a quick note saying that you intend to review a particular project. That will inform others that the project is "taken" and they should look elsewhere. If someone has already staked a claim to a project, look for another one. I would like to see one review per project. If you would like to review or comment on more than one project, that's fine, but do your first (required) review on a project that has not yet been reviewed.
And finally ...
Thank you. Minz and I are sure a fair amount of learning went on in this class. :) I know I can say that I learned a lot - I always do when I teach a course. For those (many) who stuck with the course, thanks for hanging in there and giving it your best right up to the end. We will be making adjustments for future sessions - based on lessons learned in previous sessions and in this iteration of the course. If you have specific suggestions for improvements to the course, please feel free to send me an e-mail.
I wish you all the best as you move out and use the CSS techniques we have practiced and discussed over the past five or six weeks. I encourage you to consider the advanced CSS course if you have the chance to take it.
Chimène