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Presenting Your Site
This is your moment to show your hard work. You will show your site to the class on the last day of class.

Instructions

    Each of you have only a few minutes to show your site. Be prepared with your presentation. I will be grading you on your site containing certain elements.

    You will be showing your site online on either the Mac or PC (your choice). Sometimes, servers are not accessible for a variety of reasons. I would strongly advise you to bring your site on a zip disk (PC or Mac) or a floppy (PC only) in case you cannot access it online.

    Some of you came to this class with a solid idea of the site you wanted to do. Others were not sure about a particular site idea but wanted to learn HTML. Some of you are gifted artists or scholars in other disciplines. But for most of you, no matter how much art or technical training you may have under your belt, making Web pages look good for new coders is difficult.

    This presentation is to show you were able to learn the material taught in this class. I am not teaching you graphics or Web graphics or Art 101. Nor were you expected to have any of that training before this class. So, please, relax and enjoy showing us what you could accomplish in the 8 weeks in this class.

    IMPORTANT: Email me the URL to your completed site with the following one through four items. This is needed for me to review your site more thoroughly after the class to make sure your site has all the Minimum Features listed below. Do not rely on any previous time you have given me your URL. If, for some reason, you know you cannot email me your URL, type out the following one through four items on a piece of paper and give it to me by the end of lab after class.:

    1. Your URL
    2. Your Name
    3. Section Number
    4. FINAL PRESENTATION
      5.
    You must email me your URL by midnight on the last day of class. If handing me a piece of paper with your URL, this must be done by end of lab last day of class. The next day is too late for credit.

    You may want to print out or copy this Minimum Features list to refer to while giving your presentation. Here is how the grading breaks down:
    1. Presenting your site. Worth 10 points.
    2. Minimum features you need to demonstrate in the presentation. Worth 20 points total, each item 2 points. (If you have kept yourself on track through the class, you already have all of these.):
      3.
      1. At least 5 separate, finished pages with navigation ON EACH PAGE. Each main page is connected to the other main pages with local (relative) links. Each page off the main pages are connected to that page with a link back using local (relative) links. 2 points
      2. Text in at least three (3) different sizes, colors and fonts. 2 points
        Sizes: Use in font tags and/or use <h1>, etc. tags to get 3 total sizes.
        Color: Black can be one of the colors.
        Fonts: Use 3 different font tags to get three different fonts -- not all the same if using a group or list.
      3. Three (3) global (absolute) links to other Web sites from anywhere on your site. Must be real sites and work once your pages are on the Internet. 2 points. Test, test, test on the Internet.
      4. Two (2) internal (jump) links (with anchors in the same page or to different local pages on your site). 2 points. Test, test, test on the Internet .
      5. One (1) mailto: link. 2 points
      6. Two (2) lists (any kind). 2 points
      7. At least three (3) graphics. 2 points
        • One (1) graphic which is also a link.
        • One (1) graphic containing an ImageMap.
        • One (1) graphic that is an animated gif.
      8. BODY tag code using bgcolor or a graphic as background. 2 points
      9. BODY tag code with non-default color (must put a color in the code) for link and vlink. 2 points
      10. At least three (3) different tables with at least five (5) total different attributes. (You can spread out the 5 attributes over the three tables or keep them in one or two. But they MUST be 5 DIFFERENT table attributes.) 2 points
        11.

    NOTE: Each of these items should be incorporated into your completed Web site. Pages that are "Sample Pages", "Code Demo pages", "Under Construction", "404 Not Found" are not part of your class completed Web site will result in a lower grade. Test, test, test your links on the Internet. Look at your pages on the Internet and make sure the text and graphics are showing up the way you intended. Missing graphics will result in a lower grade.

    Testing off the Internet (on your desktop) will give you false results.
    More help. Here are some concepts to keep in mind about your site:
    Navigation.
    It should be accessible on each page and consistent from page to page. It should be toward the top of the page. This can be at the very top across or on the right or left sides of the page starting at the top.

    Color and graphics.
    Your site should have color. Black and white are colors, too. But don't make an entire black and white site. Make sure the color you have picked for the background of your pages and the color you pick for the type allows the viewer to be able to read the type. Red type on a black background is unreadable. There are many combinations that are bad. Think of the user coming to your site for the first time, not knowing any of the material and possibly seeing colors darker or lighter than you are seeing them.

    Your site should have graphics. How much, how many? This is up to you, after you meet the minimum requirements. Have the graphics make sense to the site. If you using a graphic in the background, make sure the text is readable.

    Overall look and feel.
    Make your pages consistent (look similar from page to page), the navigation understandable and the use of graphics make sense to the content. Be as creative as you want. There is no right way to do any particular site.

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