Class 9 – Final Project Requirements

December 5th, 2009 § 1

DEADLINE

  • All final projects must be complete by the last day of class (12/19 – Class #12).
  • This means you have approximately 4 weeks to complete your projects.

REQUIREMENTS

  • projects must show your mastery of the technologies we have learned in this class: XHTML, CSS, Javascript (using JQuery), PHP, and MySQL.
  • projects must be completely information architected before you start programming
  • projects must involve at least 3 distinct web pages.
  • you are required to present your site to the class on December 19th – Class #12
  • all filenames must be all lowercase with no spaces or special characters except underscore “_”
  • all variable names in PHP and Javascript must be written in camelCase.
  • all CSS class names and IDs must be written in lowercase, with no special characters except the underscore “_” character.
  • final projects must be working and accessible on the web (not only on your client machine)
  • projects must be linked to from your blog.

GRADING

Grades will be loosely based on your ability to exhibit mastery of Information Architecture and programming techniques.

  • Information Architecture (20%)
  • Programming (50%)
  • Ability to conceptualize and realize a fully-functioning, well thought-out site (30%)

PRESENTATIONS

You will be required to present your work to the class on December 19th – Class #12.

Presentations should be no more than 10 minutes.

Questions to answer in your presentation:

  • Who are you, and what is your background?
  • What’s the purpose of your site and why did you decide to build it?
  • Show your information architecture diagrams. Why did you choose this particular navigation structure and why did you place the various bits of information where you did in the wireframes?
  • Show your completed site. What do you think works and what doesn’t?
  • Explain the basic flow of information on the site – which page links to which, and show any parts where data passed between pages.
  • Explain where you used Javascript on the site, and why.
  • What are any problems you had, solutions you arrived at (or didn’t), and any other issues you encountered when building the site that may be interesting or helpful to others.
  • Is the site a good representation of what you had originally planned?
  • What are your plans for the site (if any) once the class is over?
  • What are your plans (if any) for continuing on with web development in the future?
  • What did you or didn’t you learn in this class that you had originally wanted to learn?

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