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Webpage Design and Development, CPST-2400-10
Summer 2010
Case Problem - Week 6, Monday, Jun 14
Travel Scotland!
Due 11:59 PM, Sunday, Jun 20
Assignment
Key Terms
News
You should already have the Data Files need for this Case Problem. See BlackBoard's Course Materials for more information.
Tutorial 3, Case Problem 4
Travel Scotland!
Tutorial 3, Case Problem 4 is presented in your textbook starting on page 196. You've been hired by the owner of a touring company. She's come to you for help in creating a design for the Travel Scotland! Website. You are provided with content and graphic images for 4 web pages. You are to take her unformatted content and create an interesting design and layout.
Before beginning this task:
- Advice: Don't start this assignment without first reading Tutorial 3 in your text book.
- This is up to you, but you may want to make a new folder on your computer, and on your Tulane CPST Website to contain all the files for this project. For a number of reasons, it is good practice to separate related files, not the least of which is to make it easier for you to find them.
- Name all of your web pages for this project similarly. Like this: uniqueName.html (use a name you make up, not uniqueName)
- See Guidelines for Naming HTML Files and Folders.
- As always, every web page will include the heading comments as demonstrated by our HTML Template.
- Before getting too far along, review the content of the text files and view the image files. The image files match up with the travel destinations.
- HINT: If you are unsure how to view image files on your computer, you can user your browser to do so ...
- drag an image file on top of a browser window, or
- use Open ... in the File menu of your browser to locate the image file on your computer
To complete this task:
- Once you become familiar with the contents of this proposed site, start designing the site. There should be at least 4 pages. In your preparations for the site, create a storyboard of the site's contents and links. Another link to StoryBoarding! More links.
- Every time you make any changes to your Style Sheets, you should use W3C CSS Validation Service to find errors quickly, making it much easier to make needed corrections.
- As you make small changes, use your browser to view your WebPage. Use W3C Markup Validation Service to catch HTML mistakes as you make them.
- Make sure that you make your site easy to navigate.
- Please include other resources you may find to make your site unique and interesting.
- The design and layout of the site is up to you, but your pages should include at least one example of the following design elements:
- A style that modifies the text and background colors of page elements.
- A style that modifies the font size, face, and appearance of element text.
- A style that defines an element's padding and margins, distinctly different in at least two directions.
- A style to define the border appearance of an element.
- A style that floats an inline image or element.
- A style that adds a background image to an element.
- A style applied to a <div> container identified by an "id" value.
- Every Webpage should have a slightly different appearance. Add an embedded style sheet to each Webpage to provide different color scheme ... and other style attributes that add to the Webpage design.
- Use W3C Markup Validator to insure that your Webpages conform to XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict as specified by your <!DOCTYPE declaration.
- Test your Webpage under a variety of browsers.
When you are finished:
- Use FTP to upload your completed web page to your Tulane CPST WebSite.
- Copy the URL of your website's main page and paste it into a new eMail message to George (gnorth@tulane.edu). Subject of this eMail MUST be "Tutorial 3 - Case Problem 4"
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