Project 2 Requirements - Due December 11th at 11:59pm

Project 2 is all about understanding your role as a Web Design consultant. You can imagine that you are working as a consultant for an organization you admire, an organization you are working with, or a completely fictitious organization. To get you in the mood, you can write a contract for your services for the organization for which you wish to create Web pages (a good exercise to get some experience thinking about what you would include in such a document, but you don't have to turn it in). Feel free to send me the contract details early to have me verify that you are on target with a reasonable scope for you project.

You will deliver a finished set of up to three interlinked Web pages (or if a real client, you can just send me a link to their website), and a template for at least one page for which you think the design of the page should be reused often within the site. All your deliverables should be uploaded to a folder within your folder on our class server. I'd appreciate if you'd call the folder project2 so I can quickly find your submission among all the other materials within your class folder.

As discussed in class, the template you turn in can be one that you created from scratch, modified from an existing site on the Web, or came from a free template download service such as the ones we looked at in class on November 15th: www.2dwebdesign.com, freecsstemplates.org, or any of the ones we found by searching on the search phrases free html templates or free css templates.

I provide an example by way of my bdcampbell.net home page. I wanted to re-design my personal website using a template to demonstrate the process to a previous class. I chose a template by searching for free HTML templates. I chose this Music Shop template. I then modified the template to include my content instead of the template content. The two look similar as a result. Hopefully, you will find that the hard work you've put into class to this point pays off when trying to use or create templates. That's my intent for you, at least, by assigning such a project 2 assignment. If it doesn't work for you for your learning purposes, pitch something else as if I were the client and you the contractor.

If you want to use a transparent spacer image for your templates (as demonstrated in class), you can grab this spacer.gif file or hypertext reference to bdcampbell.net/html/images/spacer.gif. Otherwise, you can just put placeholder graphics in the template however you would want them for your own purposes.

If you submit your work on time by the end of day on December 11th, you will be eligible to participate in the class design competition and vote for three of the top conceptual designs you like best. You will also be able to vote on the three best implementations of HTML, XHTML, and CSS. If you win the competition and have done a half-decent job of project 1, you will receive a top grade in the class.

If you need a recommendation for your project because you have no ideas of your own (which would be kind of pathetic since you can pick any organization on the Web), you are welcome to work on the OWorld site.