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Webpage Design and Development Assignment -
Course Learning Outcomes addressed:
Information strategy, Business strategy and planning and Technical strategy and planning
a) To gather, critically analyse, manage and present in meaningful ways information and data, and Systems development and User experience.
b) To act as an ethical practitioner while demonstrating skills in data analysis, database design, system design, web design and software development and testing,
c) To implement and document user experience analysis, design and testing.
Communication skills
a) To prepare design and system documentation and written reports Teamwork and self-management skills
b) To work collaboratively in small teams on a variety of large and small projects to produce models, software, documentation and reports
c) To take responsibility for their own time management delivering quality required material on time in dynamically changing technological and communication contexts whether as an individual or member of a small team.
Unit Learning Outcomes addressed:
Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:
a. Describe and use the client-server internet model, W3C standards, mark-up languages, client-side scripting, server-side scripting to access and manipulate data, database access and internet security.
b. Analyse and model requirements and constraints for the design of client-server internet applications.
c. Apply HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, Multimedia and interactivity to develop highly effective websites.
d. Identify problems, opportunities and challenges in creating Webpages.
e. Make recommendations based on accessibility, ethics, and website promotion strategies.
Assessment Task -
A written assignment undertaken in groups of three or four students in the form of a webpage design, implementation, test and evaluation. Your Project will demonstrate mastery of the web development skills and concepts learned in this unit.
The project must be your own design and be completed by you - the use of free or purchased web site templates is not permitted (for example, those found in Dreamweaver, purchased or free, blog or social networking templates such as Drupal, WordPress, Blogger, Facebook as well as the textbook's Case Study Lab). If it is perceived that a web template has been used, the project grade will be no more than "below average".
ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION -
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION - Think Green Foundation was founded in October 2010 and is a non-profit organisation that aims to assist and uplift rural communities with the support of environmental projects. We have raised more than AUD 3 million to date and have won the UN Champions of the Earth Award in 2017 and 2018. To date, we have assisted 40 rural communities in South Africa, Botswana and Zambia and planted more than 40,000 trees.
Our staff currently includes three full time project coordinators, a marketing coordinator and seven administrative staff members. We also have eight part time volunteers during various stages of the year.
Our main message is that poverty and environmental degradation are intrinsically linked. By educating communities to respect the environment, opportunities for income generation are created.
Website Design and Development Assignment -
For this assignment you will work with a team to develop a website. Your team will need to conduct some research to find the information for the topic. The goal is to present the information (website) in such a way that customers can use your website effectively. In addition, you will submit a brief individual report about this assignment.
Teams: You will be expected to choose your own teams for this project. Teams may consist of three or four students. Your team needs to choose a team name and contact person. Students who are not in a group must contact the lecturer.
The Website: Good web design suggests that dividing material into bite-sized pieces relating to a portion of the overall topic.
Good practice of web design is expected - e.g. appropriate navigation, a good writing style for the web, well-thought out design to make material easily read on screen, and appropriate fonts and colors. The home page should be index.html.
One of the pages (references.html) should contain accurate and detailed information about the sources of information (contents and images) used in the web pages. It is expected that the references be accurate and complete and follow an appropriate format.
Your website project must follow the hierarchical structure and file naming conventions given below. Your marks will be deducted if you don't follow this structure in your project.
The Group Report:
Write a three page paper describing the process of creating your website, working with your client and learning the technical skills necessary to do so. Discuss the things that went well on the site, the things that you found difficult, things you would change if you could do it again and what your group did on the project and how each of the group member personally contributed to the project.
Remember, unlike some of the other papers we have done in class, this is an actual essay, not a rough designs or notes. Pay attention to grammar and spelling.
Make sure the name of your group and a listing of the members of your group are clearly identified on the first page of this document.
Word limit: equivalent to 1200 words.
Requirements:
- Website should have 18 (references page included) pages.
- Each of those pages should use same or similar style, so that the pages look like they belong to the same website.
Validate your Webpage:
- Each HTML page and CSS should pass the W3C validation.
- Validate the webpage using the W3C validator. All errors must be eliminated before assignment is submitted.
- Include the validation icon on your valid page *inside* your closing body tag at the base of your page/web site.
Navigation:
- Each page should have a meaningful title (using the same title for all the pages is not considered meaningful).
- You should have a consistent navigation, for example if you have a menu which links to different pages, the menu should appear in the same place in all pages, so that users can easily find the menu and able to navigate to different pages.
Design:
- Website demonstrates accepted graphic design principles (repeated elements throughout, contrast, proximity, and alignment as well as uncluttered space and subdued backgrounds).
- Website uses coordination of colors which do not hamper usage; this includes text contrasting well with background
- Consistent design throughout the website
- You should use one external stylesheet, and optionally internal stylesheets in different pages. The stylesheet should contain only the rules which are common more than 2 pages or all the pages. The internal stylesheet should contain rules which are used only in one particular page.
- You should organize all the pages in a good structure.
- You should layout your web pages using one of the layout techniques. You should use <div> to layout your pages, using <table> for laying out is not allowed.
- Your pages should be easy to read, easy to navigate. The text, border, background etc. should be contrasting, and don't use too many different colors.
- You should have enough text and 20 images in your website. You must add multi-media contents (audio, video etc.).
- You should have at least a list in your website.
- You should have one contact form and one online booking form by using the valid HTML5 form elements.
- If you're using an image or some text from somewhere else, you must clarify the origin of that resource in a comment in your HTML or CSS file, right before the resource you're using.
- Use at least 2 JavaScript Pop-up windows and 2 Alert boxes in your website.
- Create the company logo and navigation bars by using the Font Awesome (Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and LESS.).
- You should only use Google fonts in your website. Your marks will be deducted in case of using other generic fonts by using the html font tags.
- Add social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google +, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter) links in the footer section of each webpage by using the Font-Awesome toolkit.
General:
- The website to be designed in wide screen format.
- The website to be developed to be a responsive website.
- The target audience is all users of mobile, tablet, desktop and laptops.
Attachment:- Webpage Design and Development Assignment File.rar