Hey hey! Assignment 2!!!

That's right kids: AV Online (EEET 5206)

Assignment 2, part B: Advanced website

Worth: 50% of total semester mark
Due: Last class, Wk 12, (of May 17)

Description

The aim of Assignment 2 is to give you a feel – and the practical experience of - for the various steps in the making of a website: planning, preparation, production and publication. It’s also a chance for you to refine your skills, now that you’ve had a go at creating your own website.

For this website, don’t feel you have to throw in everything we’ve learned. Instead, pick your tools with care and use them to make a good impression.

• The website should consist of at least 4 pages.
• Include your name and student number on a cover or splash page.
• Include a link to your email address – preformatted subject line.
• Include graphics (within a .5 meg limit unless you’re doing a gallery).
• Use of advanced features such as framesets and rollover images is encouraged but not required.
• The website must be uploaded to the Internet and we’ll go through them in the final class.
• Include a page (either linked to the site or not) that briefly discusses ways in which you felt you achieved or failed to achieve your design goals. – this can be your Intro page – or not.
• Before you submit your assignment, get someone to test your website for errors. Ask them for a paragraph of written feedback, and include this in the above page. Discuss what changes, if any, you made to your website as a result of this feedback.
• Check your website on both a Mac-based browser and a PC-based browser and tweak your site to make sure that it looks the same in both.

Requirements

Please note that you will be heavily penalised for not following these requirements.

• The entire website cannot be more than .5 meg in size (Unless it’s a gallery of images – in which case do your best to keep it small – but make sure the quality doesn’t suffer). Pick and resize your graphics carefully. Optimise appropriately.
• The main page must be called index.htm
• None of the file or folder names can contain spaces – use ‘_’ or ‘-‘ instead.
• All links must work. Test your website before submitting it.

Submitting your assignment

After completing your assignment, upload it to your personal space – either your own internet provvider, Geocities, another free web host OR use the one made available through this class. I’d also like a copy on disk or zipped via email as a backup and a local for me to view. Please leave the site untouched until you’ve received your marks (either in person or by email).

Assessment criteria

• Written expression and depth of analysis
• Adherence to original brief
• Demonstrated familiarity with Dreamweaver functions
• Functionality of links, graphics, etc.
• Successful uploading to the Internet
• Clarity of design
• Appropriateness of design for purpose/audience
• Thought and detail behind and in design
• Control of text elements – positioning.
• Accessibility (eg labelling of graphics (ALT TEXT), titling the page)

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i feel i should explain

that picture below... well, Branden was explaining something for me and well, he did an image search for "chicken sex" and got this picture and in answering my question, he posted that pic to the blogger from my account.

i am not a weirdo.

What is this?

Assignment 2A

Hey gang. Here's the deal:

We have 5 weeks - 5 classes left. I missed many of you last week...well, me and four other people missed the rest of you. So listen up.

First part - due in class first thing next class - Week 9 - is your Final Website Plan.

This will consist of three elements:

1/ Description of site -> The purpose and the audience. One paragraph should do it.
2/ Sitemap -> yes. A sitemap as described in class. You can link to a pdf example - without labels and for a largeish site - here: map.pdf
3/ Wireframes for each page. If you are doing a large site, i.e. more than 5 pages, then just the main page (if you have one) and the top level pages. The wireframes are to be as explicit in their documentation of the features and function of the pages and the elements of the pages. An example can be downloaded from here: wf.pdf

When we meet next week you'll hand in your plans. One document, please. PDF format preferred. Either on CD or email it to me: branden@twinlizards.com

Then we'll get to work immediately on our final web projects.

A couple of things to note:

Don't reinvent the wheel - View Source and help yourself - Take the best - and what you wish - from that site and use it.

Find sites similar to yours and compile a list of "best practices" - things that they do well and which you'd like to emulate.

Don't bite off more than youcan chew - and for that matter, don't eat anything bigger than your head.

Questions? Email me.

Rock on,

Branden

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... but then again, some of you may have endless bundles of smelly cash.

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Dear popcorn taxi melbourne subscriber
We thought you'd like to know about this unique popcorn taxi event being held in Sydney shortly, as it is Quentin Tarantino's only public appearance in Australia. Apologies for those who who would like to attend but can't get to Sydney - we did ask him for a Melbourne show!
Best wishes

Michael Agar
popcorn taxi melbourne


P o p c o r n T a x i

S c r e e n i n g s P r o g r a m - S y d n e y
SPECIAL EVENT

Sunday May 2nd - 5pm

QUENTIN TARANTINO
'Live' at The Sydney Opera House


This program is sponsored by
SHOWTIME


Popcorn Taxi proudly presents an exclusive opportunity for you to join legendary filmmaker QUENTIN TARANTINO in person at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday May 2nd. He will be joined by film journalist MARGARET POMERANZ for a very special on-stage conversation about his films.

TARANTINO took Hollywood by storm in 1992 with his cult hit RESERVOIR DOGS. His combination of clever dialogue and brutal violence hit a new peak in 1994 with PULP FICTION, which won him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and the Palme d’Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. In 1997 he followed up his success with JACKIE BROWN starring PAM GRIER, ROBERT DE NIRO and SAMUEL L. JACKSON, and then recently with KILL BILL (VOL. 1) with UMA THURMAN and LUCY LIU.

As a writer his credits include TRUE ROMANCE directed by TONY SCOTT, NATURAL BORN KILLERS which was heavily reworked by director OLIVER STONE, and FROM DUSK TILL DAWN in which he also starred along side GEORGE CLOONEY, under the direction of ROBERT RODRIGUEZ. An overnight success by Hollywood standards, TARANTINO is without a doubt one of the most influential filmmakers to emerge in the last decade.

This program will include opportunities for questions from the audience, plus a selection of clips from QUENTIN's films throughout the event. KILL BILL (VOL. 2) is released in cinemas nationally this Thursday (April 22nd), and we highly recommend you go see it. You can view the trailer HERE. For more information on Tarantino see his full bio below.

Popcorn Taxi would like to give a very special thanks to DAVID COLLINS, SARAH WARD, MIRAMAX and BUENA VISTA for their generous support in making this event possible.

POPCORN TAXI presents
QUENTIN TARANTINO 'LIVE'
IN CONVERSATION AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
Admission (R18+ only)

Date: Sunday May 2nd 2004
Venue: The Sydney Opera House (Concert Hall)
Address: Bennelong Point, Circular Quay
Time: 5:00 pm (Sharp)
Doors Open: 4:30pm / Foyer Open: 4:00pm
Cost (all tickets): $35.00.


NOTE: All seating is reserved for this session, and tickets are expected to sell fast!

ADVANCE TICKET PURCHASE DETAILS:
Tickets on sale from Wednesday April 21st - 9:00am.

TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED IN THREE WAYS -

VIA INTERNET
By visiting: The Opera House Web Site at -
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/boxoffice/

VIA TELEPHONE
By phoning: (02) 9250 7777
(Phone lines open from 9am - 8:30pm Mon - Sat)


IN PERSON:
At The Sydney Opera House Box Office:
Located up main steps, through main foyer and next to information counter.
(Box office open from 9am - 8:30pm Mon - Sat)


For all credit card transactions there is an additional $6.50 transaction fee.
(i.e. a once only $6.50 charge per transaction, not per ticket)


AN EXCLUSIVE OFFER TO THE POPCORN TAXI EMAIL LIST
Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9am, but as a special offer available only to the Popcorn Taxi email list, you can have a head start on everybody else. If you CLICK HERE, you will be taken to the Opera House Box Office web site, where you can purchase tickets on-line now, before anybody else!!!

THINGS TO DO THINGS TO READ - and Class yestereday was...small

Hi kids! For those of you - everyone but Sandra, Amy, Dan and Adam - who missed class this week, please update your blog with a new template and we'll have a look at everyone's in class next week to see JUST HOW CREATIVE YOU ARE.

Also, remember to get your reading up to date - in Dreamweaver MX Bible - be up to CH 14 AND read CH 20 (Building Stylesheet web pages), 21 (working with layers), 23 (working with Behaviors) and jump to 28 to get a fix on Dreamweaver Templates.

I can't stress enough that you should get up to speed on Templates as well as Behaviors. Cool?

B

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..... no i'm not, that was humour.


because of those crazy little kids - bless 'em - who create those delightful, how do you say, "viruses", i have just had to format my hard drive, and thus have lost all my music media, nearly 1000 songs.

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