Week 12, November 20 and Thanksgiving


  TEST TWO

Have a Great Thanksgiving

 Announcements

  • If you haven't already done so, click Form Fields.doc and print it. When you get to Tutorial 6: Publishing a Web Site, p. 357, Validating Form Fields, and p. 387, Examining a Form Results File, this handout will be useful.
  • If you haven't already done so, click here to see a handout that summarizes steps to create frameset pages with link bars based on navigation structure and shared borders and print it. This handout will be helpful when you create your frameset pages for your Final Web site.
     

Homework 

E-mail assignments with this e-mail icon to me no later than Sunday at noon unless otherwise announced. No assignments are accepted late. In all e-mail messages, the subject line should be Your Name, last 4 numbers of your student ID, project ID.

Note: You will have two weeks to complete this assignment. It is not due this week but will be due the end of next week. Planning Analysis Sheet (PAS), 10 pts. It's time to continue building the pages, shared borders, and content of your Final Web site. The goal of the PAS is to guide you to finalize the organization and pages for your Final Web site without focusing on the details of the content of each page. See the Final Exam page for details on each required item. 

When the PAS for your Final Web site and your final Web site are ready for viewing, send two URLs in one e-mail message. The subject line should be Your Name, last 4 digits of student ID, PAS. The URLs should point to the following locations (xx represents your directory number):

Location Sample URL (change "xx" to your directory number)
Home Page http://ca112.lacitycollege.edu/ca112axx/Final/
PAS.doc http://ca112.lacitycollege.edu/ca112axx/Final/PAS.doc

Yuko Kondo's would look like this:

http://caot.lacitycollege.edu/112/FinalKondo/
http://caot.lacitycollege.edu/112/FinalKondo/PASKondo.doc

When I receive your PAS and see your Final Web site next week, I will send you preliminary comments and final approval of your topic. Click here for guidelines as to what constitutes an appropriate topic. The PAS items listed below are general guidelines. Any exceptions to these guidelines must be approved by me.

Go to http://ca112.lacitycollege.edu/ca112a00/FinalB/ to see an example of a sample Final Web site I created. It is an example of what your Web site should look like to this point if you have continued to work on it as directed in past few weeks. Go to http://ca112.lacitycollege.edu/ca112a00/FinalC/ to see an example of this same Web site after all the steps listed below have been completed. Your Final Web site should be similar to this one by the beginning of next week.

Step 1: Open PAS.doc (the Planning Analysis Sheet) from the root directory of your Final Web site and continue working on it as needed until it is finished. You should have already completed the Objective and References section. You are now ready to complete the Navigation View and Requirements sections. You will add the screen shots of the custom link bars to be used in the frameset pages. Click here for an example of your PAS at this point. See Yuko Kondo's PAS as an example of a finished PAS.0

Step 2: In your PAS, the list of Web pages must include a Guest Book page or some form with the required fields and the Final page as the last page. If you want to create the form for the Guest Book page (or a form of your choice with the required fields), you learned how to do this in Tutorial 6, so feel free to create it if you have time. If not, just create a blank page and finish it later. The arrangement of pages in your navigation view must match the list of pages in the Requirements section of the PAS.

Step 3: In your PAS, identify your frameset page in blue in the list of Web pages and identify the main frame pages. See Item 15.

Step 4: Your navigation structure should be finished as much as possible to this point. Include all the pages you are planning to include in the Final Web site even if they are blank right now with appropriate page titles and banner names. See Item 10.

Step 5: Use link bars generated by FrontPage (not user-defined link bars) to generate your site's navigational structure. Begin by dragging and dropping your pages into place in Navigation view—see Item 10. Then add shared borders to the home page and the child pages under home to include navigation—See Step 6 and Step 7 below and see Item 12 and Item 13. Add link bars in the body of any Child Level 2 pages as needed. Remember to place link bars centered inside a centered, borderless, 640-pixel table structure. (Click here for steps if you can't see the bottom of the Insert Table dialog box.)

Step 6: Include a bottom shared border on all pages (except the frameset banner and contents pages) with a counter, the date of revision, and a "top" picture with a hyperlink for navigation to the top of the page. See Item 13.  If you don't yet know how to insert a counter, we will be covering it this week or next. You may add it as soon as I explain it.

If you copied material from other Web sites, add a generic citation in your footer as shown here from Lollipop Creations and remove any copyright for yourself. Also, see Guidelines below and Item 14.

Step 7: Include a top shared border on the home pages and all child pages under home with the home page as an additional link. Include a non-text "top" bookmark for navigation to the top of the page. See Item 12.

Step 8: Place all page content inside the framework of a 640-pixel, fixed width, centered table for consistent display. (Click here for steps if you can't see the bottom of the Insert Table dialog box.) Left align paragraphs. See Item 9.

Step 9: Your home page should be nearly finished. It should include top shared borders with a centered navigation link bar inside a 640-pixel borderless table and a bottom shared border as described below. The home page content must answer the questions who, what, when, where, and why. The purpose of your Web site should be immediately clear to me when I read the home page title.

Step 10: Check the mechanics (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, sentence fluency, etc.) in your Web site and PAS with extreme care. Your visitors will judge you immediately on your fluency in the language and will discount your Web site when they see errors no matter how attractive the site is. See Item 4. Use "Web site" consistently if you use this wording on any pages.

Step 11: Apply a theme to the Web site. See Item 19. Tell me the name of the theme you used when you send me your email to grade this assignment.

Step 12: In one e-mail, paste the URL of your Final Web site and the URL to your PAS page into the email message and tell me the name of the theme you used. I can open your PAS.doc file on the Internet to grade it. For example, your URLs would look like this:

Yuko Kondo's would look like this:

Guidelines:

  • Use animations and transitions sparingly.
  • Citations. See Item 14 on the Final page for information on citing copyrighted materials such as pictures and content. Many sources of information are not in the public domain and may not be used without the permission of their respective copyright holders. Click here for information on how to properly cite and format individual online sources. Since your Final Web site is "for nonprofit educational purposes," we are taking some liberties here. But I still want sources cited. Click here for an interesting site regarding copyright myths. I check http://www.ixquick.com/ and other sites to see if students have cheated.
     
    Click here for information on fair use and go to http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/ for details on the concepts of intellectual property (property that derives from the work of the mind or intellect, specifically an idea, invention, trade secret, process, program, data, formula, patent, copyright, or trademark or application, right or registration relating thereto that has the attributes of personal property and may be purchased, assigned, licensed, pledged or transferred in the same manner as personal property), public domain (a space where intellectual property protection does not apply), copyright, patents, and commons.

    "Title 17, Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act, "Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use".Title 17, Chapter 1, Sec. 107. - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
    Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include - (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
    (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors."
  • Continue working on the Final Web site incorporating all changes I suggested today. Work on the form page for your Final this weekend. Our semester is drawing rapidly to a close.
  • Be sure to backup Garden and Final to our backup server at http://ca112bk.lacitycollege.edu/ca112axx/!! Take this very seriously.

Extra Credit 

Extra credit assignments are due no later than Sunday evening. None this week.

Last revised Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:06 PM.


 

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