Final Project. 100 Points.

Due either the last night of class (12/10) or by 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 12. You must tell me in class on 12/10 how you intend to turn this in -- on disk, FTP, etc.

The final version of your site should have all of the bugs worked out, and should be a multimedia package that you'd be proud to upload to the Web or show to potential employers.

Note on Content: Your project must include 20 web pages written and produced by you. Images from other sites can be used, so long as they are credited. Text from other sites should be rewritten by you, unless it is short enough to be quoted. Any direct text outtakes should be short (5 lines or less), should be in quotemarks, should be attributed ("said Joe Smith in Suchandsuch") and must be credited with a link to the original somewhere, either in the text or at the end of the story. Recipes and lyrics to songs are the only exceptions to this, and must be credited. You must include source lists for the feature stories.

Note on layout: At the bottom of at least the entry page, you need to put in a small font that this site was created by a student for the JPRA 357 Web Publishing class at Temple University.

Note on requirements: There should be a mailto tag to the site's creator on the site somewhere. A lot of you missed this. Please make sure to incorporate it.

Guidelines: For the final site, here's what I'm looking for, on top of what you already have:

  • If you're missing important content, add it.

  • If you need to make changes based on feedback about the previous version, make them.

  • If you have bugs in your HTML, fix them.

  • If you think it needs more or different visual enhancement, incorporate the necessary graphics.

  • If you want to further refine the presentation or organization, adjust things accordingly.

  • If it needs copy editing, do it and/or find a fresh pair of eyes to read over your site for you.

  • In general, make whatever final modifications you need in order for the site to be a showpiece for what you can create in this new medium. Be sure to carefully check your site in Internet Explorer to make sure everything works, all graphics have been uploaded and so on.

    On Wednesday, Dec. 10:

    Please send me an e-mail to say how you are submitting your final project, and include a rationale/note with any comments on how it came together, changes you made or didn't make, things you would change, had their been more time.

    Your choices for turning this in:

    1. Copy your web site onto my Zip disk during the final class on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
    2. FTP the site to your web space on astro.temple.edu . E-mail me the web address of the finished product in class. Last date this will be accepted: Friday, Dec. 12 at 3 p.m.
    3. Leave Zip disk in my mailbox at JPRA office by 3 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 12. I will return the Zip disk to my mailbox sometime during Finals Week (most likely after Tuesday 12/16). You are responsible for picking it up yourself.
    4. If you have access to a CD burner, you can burn a CD of the web site and leave it in my mailbox at the JPRA office (by 3 p.m. on Friday, December 12). CDs will not be returned unless you request it be left back in my mailbox.

    NO MATTER HOW YOU TURN THIS IN, YOU MUST INFORM ME ABOUT HOW YOU WILL FILE.



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