Favorite Book review web site
November 4, 2011
Objective:
Standard 2: Plan and design a website.
Standard 4: The student will use commercial web design software (ie:
Dreamweaver) to create attractive web pages.
Standard 5: The student will create and prepare images to integrate
with web site designs. Example image software:
Fireworks, Photoshop, GIMP, Paint, etc.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will achieve a moderately to highly skilled status by showing proficiency in the following:
- Explore and understand basic good web development and
design principles, such as: color, white space, font styles,
viewing patterns, background images, balance, etc.
- Plan the layout considering consistency, readability,
proportion, navigation, etc.
- Use proper naming conventions and file structure.
Understand file types and filename extensions.
- Create paragraphs, line breaks horizontal rules, ordered and
unordered list, and tables. Emphasize proofreading, spell
checking and grammar.
- Use headings and font enhancements (bold, italics, etc.).
- Create hyperlinks and mail links.
- Modify page properties. For example: background, font (styles and colors), links. Insert images and include attributes (such as alt, vspace and
hspace, size, align, etc).
- Use colors to change backgrounds and text. Use image for backgrounds.
- Open and save an image in a web friendly format. Crop and resize various images. Optimize an image (resize and change resolution for optimal
load time). Enhance an image to improve photo quality (red eye,
autocolor, etc.).
Coursework Procedure:
Quickly research your favorite book. Should be something you have already read rather than something you want to read in the future. Then create a 3-page web site to promote that book.
- First page should have a picture of the book (which you should be able to get from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble) and a brief description of the book.
- Second page should contain a biography of the author and a picture (if possible).
- Third page should be your review of the book including your opinions (doesn't matter if they are positive or negative).
You can gain a lot of knowledge on your book by surfing the Internet book stores. Make the page attractive and easy to read and navigate. People who like to read don't like to search for the content, and they definitely don't want to strain their eyes! Have fun with this assignment.
NOTE: Several of you have been recycling your designs from one assignment to another. I would like you to stop that and come up with a completely original design for this assignment (and all future assignments).
Assignment Due:
You must create a multi-page book review web site complete at the end of class on Thursday, November 10, 2011.
BUSINESS WEB PAGE DESIGN
Grade Levels: 10-12
Units of Credit: Semester (.5)
CIP Code: 52.0254
Prerequisite: Computer Technology (Computer Literacy)
Skill Certification Exam: #254
The emphasis of this semester course is on the principles and design of a website as well as advanced Internet skills and techniques. HTML, Web publishing and graphic editing software will be used to design, create, format, and edit Web pages.
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