Project 2 Requirements

Project 2 is due February 17th. 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 if you are unsure of what a reasonable scope would entail.

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). All your deliverables should be uploaded to a folder within your folder on our class server, the public_html/dw/xx folder (where xx reflects your initials). 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 work you turn in can be from a design that you created from scratch, modified from an existing site on the Web, or came from a free template download service like those available at 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.

If you want to use a transparent spacer image for your templates (as demonstrated in class), you can grab the spacer.gif file at http://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 February 13th, you will be eligible to participate in the class design competition and vote for three of the top conceptual designs you like best. If you win the competition and have done a half-decent job of project 1, you will receive a top grade in the class (though your portfolio contribution means more to me than your grade).

Make sure you pick a project approach that will lead you to maximize your learning in your hours devoted to working on it. Be sure to cut mindless redundancy out of the project such that any redundant actions you have to take are solidifying through repetition. I am pretty much open to any suggestion as to what skills you need to work on to best facilitate your personal journey in Web page design. Share your thoughts with others in the Project 2 Forum and e-mail me with any private questions you may have. Good luck!