Project 2 Overview
important due dates
- April 4: CSS Web site / Portfolio rough draft due
- April 18: CSS Web site / Portfolio final draft due; present to class
- March 27 through May 5: Twice weekly CSS Journal entries due no later than noon Friday each week posted to the CSS Journal discussion forum (only one posting due the weeks of March 21 and May 5).
the assignment
The goals of project 2 are to learn about CSS and its open source internet culture, to highlight what you learn about CSS, and to highlight work you have created -- all on a professional-looking Web site that you could present to future employers. This means that your new Web site will consist of many things, but not: pictures of you and your friends, your car(s), bland descriptions of yourself, pictures of UT, etc. In short, anything that you think is not resume-type material will not be on the page.
This assignment is giving you the opportunity to design a page that adheres to web standards and is accessible for people with disabilities. It is giving you the opportunity to think about how you would present your design (or other) skills to a future employer. It is also going to show you the fascinating world of CSS design, where reading CSS and graphic designer blogs and journals helps propagate new ideas, tips, and design features. CSS design is trial and error; it is frustrating at times, maddening at others; and is about entering into a community of designers who share similar goals: create graphically intricate, usable, accessible Web sites.
Project 2 consists of three parts:
- a re-designed hand coded Web site using CSS for layout and structure
- a Portfolio that highlights either work completed in this course or other work you have created that you think highlighting will help you professionally (artwork, web sites, photography, etc.)
- a CSS Journal, consisting of links and summaries of things you learn about CSS by looking at different CSS Blogs, articles, etc. on the web
Project 2 will be completed independently, though you will have ample time in class to bounce ideas off your peers and ask the instructor questions, and the day the rough draft is complete you will present what you have to the people with whom you worked in Project 1.
project specifics
Please select from below to see specifics for each part of the Project 2: