Turning in a Web-based Project

1. Post your site

Once you have completed the Web pages on disk, use FTP or another file transfer program to move the HTML documents and image files up into the appropriate directory (folder) on the UMD server. (For this project, put the files in your own "www" directory.)

2. Test your site

Test the site by browsing it "live" on the Web with Netscape or IE. Check all links and make sure that the images are displaying. Highlight the URL (Web address) of the main page of your site from the "Location" box at the top of your browser and copy it (Edit > copy).

3. E-mail the class alias

Once you've got your site the way you want it, send an e-mail message to the class alias with the URL pasted into the body. You don't need to write anything else. In the "subject line" (title) of the e-mail, type the course number (5220), the abbreviation "rps" (for "repurposing") a one-or-two word description of your project's subject. For example, "5220 rps angry trout" lets your classmates know that your e-mail concerns our class, the repurposing project, and the subject "angry trout."

4. E-mail Craig the self commentary

Write your self-commentary as usual and paste the text into the body of an e-mail. Send the e-mail to me by Friday, October 19 at midnight.

5. Check the class site

Go to the course home page and look in "Today's Special" for a link to the schedule that we'll follow in workshopping the Web sites starting on Monday, October 22.

6. Prepare for the workshop

Study each Web site scheduled for the next workshop day. Write a page of notes on each site which you'll turn in to me after discussion, and which I'll give to the designer of the site. As part of that response, you may print out pages of the site and annotate it if you'd like. Follow the philosophy of the critiquing guidelines, though they were obviously written for responses to a paper-based assignment.