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Project 1: Personal Course Home PageFor this assignment, you'll create a single Web page that will act as your personal home page for this course. It will serve to introduce yourself to me and your classmates--both verbally and visually--and to provide links to all your class projects and exercises, as well as to external Web sites that you would like to collect for yourself and your classmates. We will continue to add to, improve and revisit these pages during the semester. Rather than just a page of information, try to think of this page as your virtual living room for entertaining and helping people from the class. Required ContentYour Personal Course Home Page should include:
What Makes This Project InterestingThis project gives you practice incorporating a variety of information like that above into a single Web page that is usable and pleasing. Think of this page as both expressing your tastes, interests, and experiences while also serving the needs of your professor and classmates. The living room analogy is apt: this page should be comfortable for your intended guests, but also a place where you can live. In designing the page, you should also consider
Sample PagesTake a look at some sample home pages on the Web to see how people have
attempted to direct traffic among various kinds of audiences, intended
uses, kinds of information or content, etc. on their home pages. Of course,
not everything you find will be models you'll want to follow. To get you
started, here's Internet researcher Christian Sandvig's home
page. Have a go at my
own home page if you like. What other home pages can you find to consider
from the perspective of this creative design challenge? |
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