Assignments

1. Your First Website
2. Digital Imaging
3. Web Proposal
4. Class Presentation
5. Website Critique
6. Web Production
    A note on when assignments are due

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1. Your 1st Website (2 percent)
Due: Jan. 21
Create a simple website that introduces yourself to me and the rest of the class. Remember that this is a public page, so you'll want to keep out any stuff that you don't want everyone to know. This page should have three links to your favourite websites, the MIT 220 logo, and that logo should be linked back to the class website. This is where we will post assignment 2, 3, and 4.

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3. Web Proposal (20 percent)
Due: Mar. 8
To complete this assignment, you will use the following process:

• write communications plan (comms plan)
• figure out what content your site will have, and arrange it in a reasonable architecture (blueprint)
• map your content onto an exact file structure (content map)
• create sketches of how you think the main sections of the site will be laid out (sketches).

At this point you can also decide on the design/navigational elements and consider the overall tone, colour, and layout. This is your best chance to get the site right -- it should be fully planned before you begin creating it. Hand in your communications plan (two pages, point form), the blueprint, the content map (including as much content as you have already gathered), visual elements that you have and page layout ideas -- also referred to in class as 'storyboards' or "sketches".

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4. Class Presentation (group - 8 percent)
Due: Mar. 4-Mar. 29
In your small group, research and present a short 10-20 minute presentation on one website that you think is excellent.  Look at what its communication goals are, and how well it meets those goals.  Examine how the site is structured, how the navigation works, and how easy is it to use.  Is the appropriate level of technology applied?  Is it aesthetically pleasing?  Tell us who owns the site, and how easy it is to find on the web, ie., is it well-publicized?

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5. Website Critique (15 percent)
Due: Mar. 31 (I will accept this anytime.)
Research and write a short (500-word) critique of a web site that you think is excellent (or terrible). Look at what its communication goals are, and how well it meets those goals. Examine how the site is structured, how the navigation works, and how easy it is to use. Does it make you think? Is it easy to find the information you are looking for? Is the appropriate level of technology applied? Is it aesthetically pleasing? Are there interactive elements?  Write this paper in a web friendly format.

6. Web Production (30 percent)
Due: Apr. 7, 5 pm
Produce the site that you have designed and proposed. Keep in mind everything discussed in class, and any suggestions that have been made by either me or the class. Check to ensure the links are not broken and get your peers to Beta test the site. See if there are potential links among your peers' websites to be included in the final class site.

To get a better idea, read the final marking criteria.

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A note on when assignments are due:

Assignments 1 & 2 must be posted to the web by the due date, at 5 pm.

Assignments 3, 4 & 5 are due the BEGINNING of class.

A lateness penalty of 5% will be applied every day afterwards, including the weekends, unless you negotiate permission with me to hand in your assignment late.

For Web Production, there will be the following lateness penalties:

• 10% if the site is not ready by 5 pm on the 7th
• 15% if it is not ready by 9 am on the 8th
• 20% if it is not ready by 5 pm on the 8th.
• 30% if it is not ready by 9 am on the 9th.
• Sites will not be accepted after the 10th.
• Note: There is a 5% bonus if it is ready by 5 pm on the 5th.

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