Professional site and portfolio
This project will be a showcase of each student's web development skills. Students will create, update, and manage a personal site that contains a bio, photos, academic interests and, among other things, a portfolio of their graphic and Web page designs created in the class.
Deliverables:
- personal page due on Sept. 7.
- personal page accessibility update due on Oct. 12.
- personal page CSS update due on Nov. 21.
- professional site and portfolio due on Dec. 7.
Individual CSS design
In this project students will be working with the HTML code and style sheets provided for graphic designers at the CSS Zen Garden. The HTML and CSS backbones are provided; the only difference will be the attributes associated with each CSS element. See the project overview for specifics.
Deliverables:
- rough design due on Nov. 28.
- final design due on Dec. 7.
Group redesign project
As part of a semester-long service learning project, students will work in groups to redesign a website. The work will involve content and structure decisions along with a complete visual redesign. Please see the options and resources for this project.
Deliverables:
- Site inventory and analysis
- communication brief due on Sept. 26.
- audit methodology due on Oct. 3.
- content delivery plan due on Oct. 10.
- site map due on Oct. 10.
- Site prototype due on Nov. 9
(sketches due on Oct. 17). - Final redesign and presentation due on Dec 5.
Daily assignments
Students will be expected to submit daily assignments on most class days. All assignments are due by class time, except the Photoshop lessons. Descriptions of each assignment can be found linked off of the calendar of work and in the list below:
- account and profile on course site due on Sept. 5.
- page and site usability forum due on Sept. 14.
- content usability forum due on Sept. 19.
- simplicity and usability forum due on Sept. 21.
- my mouse-less experience forum due on Sept. 28.
- images and ALT text assignment due on Oct. 5
- Photoshop lesson 1 by end of class on Oct. 19.
- Photoshop lessons 2 and 3 by end of class on Oct. 24.
- Photoshop lessons 4 and 5 by end of class on Oct. 26.
- Photoshop lessons 6 and 7 by end of class on Oct. 31.
- Photoshop lessons 8 and 9 by end of class on Nov. 2.
- Photoshop lessons 10 and 11 by end of class on Nov. 7.