Updated: 09-26-08
Project 1- Personal Blog Page
For this project you will be creating an online journal (blog) to communicate to the class (and the World) who you are both visually and through your writing.
Project Overview
Create a website that is all about you. Tell us wat you like, things that are unique about yourself, places that you have traveled to, etc...
The Blog page should have five links to external sites that show things you are interested in. Thes links can be either graphic buttons created in Photoshop or text links entered in DreamWeaver.
Name:
URL:
Deliverables
• Styleguide due: M/W Class: September 3rd, 2008 • T/Th Class: September 2nd
• Project Due: M/W Class: September 10th • T/Th Class: September 11th
Required Skills
• Page – title, file name, file structure
• CSS Formatting of Text-external file, h1, h2, background color, font color, font-face, font-size, link color, visited Link color
• Tables - table width, cell width, cell or table color, border, align, cellpadding, cellspacing
• Images - alt tags, optimizing, transparency, size & resolution
• Text - text break, list
• Links - email link, external link
• Upload – files, images, relative paths
Primary message:
Secondary message:
Goals
1. To communicate who you are to your audience visually.
2. To communicate who you are to your audience through the content.
3. To share your ideas about web design with your peers.
4. To direct your audience to artwork and design that inspires you.
5. To show how your thoughts and preferences change over time.
Technical Requirements
Download time @ 56k: 50 seconds
Screen width: 1024 pixels
Accessibility: Must be accessible
Restrictions:
• all text must be written by you or attributed
• all images must be copyright free
• all images must be nonobjective
• ffiou may not use the words of your message within your site
• ffiou may not tell anyone what your messages are
