IDCC 380: Web Design II Spring 2010

Assignment One Deliverables, 02/13/09

By the way, one of the requirements for layout pages 4 and 5 is that you insert a unique Google gadget in one of the columns. The complete selection of gadgets is rather interesting and fun to peruse. You will also find that designing a gadget into your page is a nice challenge, for both aesthetics and validation purposes.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: assignment one, deliverables, Google gadget, information architecture, schematic

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Assignment 3 Requirements, 04/29/08

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Here are the final assignment deliverables:

1. Exercise 14: High Fidelity Prototype: Infinite Menu on an E-commerce Site (see handout for specific requirements).
2. Exercises 15-17: XML Slideshow in Flash Using Flash Slideshow Maker Professional (3 separate web pages plus one gateway page; see handout for specific requirements).
3. Exercise 18: Creating Your Site Blog (see handout for specific requirements).
4. Exercise 18: RSS Feed Tags (see handout for specific requirements).
5. IDCC 380 Site for Final Assignment (see handout (graphic above right) and Web page Assignment 3 for specific requirements).

Be sure to check all handouts for the various specific requirements. Note too that you are to hand in your Assignment 1 and Assignment 2 corrected papers (with my annotations on them). Print only the new pages, rendered and xhtml.

Note: your 380 site must demonstrate "excellence in design, functionality, and mastery of principles and practice." Remember, then, as I've often said in class, the 380 class site and the dream site must have a uniform look and feel. They can have two different designs, of course, but within each site you will have a uniform template driving all the top-tier pages. In the 380 class site, exercises area, all exercises will look quite different, however, as they were experimental in nature.

To recap: your 380 home page, about page, dream site discussion gateway and sub pages, dream site prototype gateway page, exercises gateway page, and 380 site map page will all have a uniform look and feel (design, layout, color palette, navigation scheme, footer, et al). Your dream site itself is a subsite with its own design, layout, color palette, navigation scheme, footer, et al.

When your assignment is complete, deliver it to Gail Wessell in Smith 121, no later than 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 6. Be sure to sign the sheet provided.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: assignment one, assignment three, assignment two, Gail Wessell

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IDCC 380 Sites Nicely Designed, 04/10/07

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Take a look at some really appealing designs and course work that your classmates submitted for assignment one:

1. Siraj Bilimoria
2. Jason Feldman
3. Brian Gilbreath
4. Josh Mahoney
5. Kimberly O'Connor
6. Robyn Saidi
7. Jennifer Shabshelowitz
8. Laura Tabb

Here are the problem areas that were general:

1. SEO: poor page titles; no meta keywords or descriptions. Be sure to correct these on all pages (except the exercise pages).
2. On your dream site prototype and your IDCC 380 Web site, kill all self-referencing links. If your navigation setup causes you trouble in doing this, let me know.
3. Remember that you are creating a Web; you need to make sure that from any page in the Web your visitor can easily get back home (except the exercise pages; I give you a pass on those).
4. Many of you experienced wrapper problems. Be sure to correct these. Ask if you need some help with this.
5. Provide a signature and a text global navigation bar in the footer of your IDCC 380 site and prototype dream site pages. The footer minimally should include date, time, and contact information. You need not include the footer on exercise pages.
6. Avoid non-informative hyperlinks such as click here.
7. Watch your proofreading. Remember as well to use Shift/F7 in Dreamweaver to check your pages for spelling.

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: assignment one, CSS Tab Designer, design, dream site, Dreamweaver, footer, hyperlinks, non-recursive hyperlinks, proofreading, prototype, student sites

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