Your completed website must contain a minimum of six pages (not including the references page, if you use other authors’ work with their permission), properly hand-coded by you. Your grade for the project will be based on your completion of several key elements as follows:
PAGE REQUIREMENTS: Failure to meet the page requirements will result in a 10 point reduction of your score.
Your Website must consist of at least 6 pages
Your main page must have a link to your other pages
All other pages must have a link back to your main page
Each page must have a title (using the HTML title tags)
Each page has the proper HTML structure
Each page must have an appropriate background color or graphic
Graphics should be locally hosted and not linked to from third party sites
SITE REQUIREMENTS:
Points possible are shown in parenthesis – This is the score sheet that will be used to grade your website project.
Basic Formatting:
Use at least two font colors. The colors used must be presentable and not interfere with reading the pages.
Contain at least one instance of using italics
Use at least one horizontal rule
Have an ordered and an unordered list
Use at least one table (visible or invisible)
Most of your formatting is handled by an external .css style sheet that is linked to your pages.
Graphics: These graphics must be optimized for the web as described in the Week 2 conference. There should be no aspect ratio issues.
TWO regular images
TWO hyperlinked images
Links:
Have a ‘mailto’ link to your email address
Have at least 4 links to other web pages that are not part of your site
At least one same page jumping links/anchors
Advanced Features:
CSS: The majority of formatting for your site is handled via an External Style Sheet (.css)
Validation: Home Page validates without errors using the W3C HTML Validator (HTML5 or XHTML OK) and the W3c Validated icon or text link is placed at the bottom of the page (only if page validates without errors)
Overall Layout: The page demonstrates an understanding of the 4 Page Layout Principles as described in the Week 3 Conference:
Contrast, Proximity, Alignment), and Repetition
Content, Design, and Usability:
There is a significant amount of original written content. That content is well written, using proper spelling, grammar, and sentence construction
Your site contains a valid copyright statement (with the copyright symbol) to cover your original content. The sources for any text, images, sounds, and scripts that are not original are properly cited (2)
The text is of a size, color, and style that is easy to read on the chosen background color or graphic
Text and graphic placement is visually appealing
There are unifying elements that make the pages seem that they belong together
Validation:
Your pages validate without errors using the W3c HTML and CSS page validators. You’ve placed icon or text links to your validation results at the bottom of each page.
How will your work be graded?
Required Formatting
Excellent
Good
Poor
Font Colors 1 point
Use at least two font colors. The colors used must be presentable and not interfere with reading the pages. 0.5 points
Use at least two font colors. The colors may make text difficult to read in some cases. 0 points
There aren’t two font colors or the colors used don’t work well.
Italics 1 point
There’s at least one instance of using italics that makes sense within the context of the site design. 0.5 points
You’ve used italics somewhere in your site. 0 points
You haven’t used italics within your site.
Horizontal Rule 1 point
You’ve used a horizontal rule in your site. It enhances the site (helps users distinguish between different types of content, breaks up long articles, etc.) 0.5 points
While it doen’t enhance the site, you’ve used a horizontal rule. 0 points
You haven’t used a horizontal rule in your site that was created using the <hr> tag.
Lists 1 point
You have both an ordered and unordered list. 0.5 points
You have an unordered -or- an ordered list but not both. 0 points
You’re missing the required ordered and unordered list.
Table 1 point
You have either a visible or invisible table somewhere in your site. It is well formed and makes sense in the context in which it is used. 0.5 points
You have included a table in your site. The table tags you’ve used are correct. 0 points
You either don’t have a table or your table tags are incorrect or incomplete.
CSS 2 points
Most of the formatting for your site is handled via an external .css file and your css is very well written. 1 point
Most of the formatting for your site is handled by css style information placed in the header part of each of your pages. 0 points
You haven’t used css to handle most of the formatting for your site, you haven’t made use of many of the css styles you created, or there are significant problems with your css.
Graphics
Excellent
Good
Poor
Two regular images 1 point
You have two regular images. The images are optimized for the web and there are no issues with aspect ratios. 0.5 points
You may have fewer than two images, an image may be broken, may not be optimized for the web, or may have problems with aspect ratio. 0 points
You have fewer than two regular images. You may have broken images.
Two hyperlinked images 1 point
You have two hyperlinked images. Both of the images and the associated hyperlinks are working perfectly. 0.5 points
You have at last one working hyperlinked image. 0 points
You don’t have two working hyperlinked images.
Links
Excellent
Good
Poor
Link to your email address 1 point
You have a mailto link to your email address. The link works and it’s in a context that makes sense. 0.5 points
Your only mailto link appears in a form action. 0 points
You don’t have a mailto link to your email address.
External Links 1 point
You have at least 4 links to other sites (web pages that are not part of your own site). 0.5 points
You have at least 2 links to other sites (web pages that are not part of your own site) 0 points
You have fewer than two links to other sites (web pages that are not part of your own site) or you have some broken links.
Same Page Link 1 point
Your page has a “same page” link (a link from one part of the page to another part of the same page). The link makes sense in the context of your site. 0.5 points
Your page has a “same page” link (a link from one part of the page to another part of the same page). 1 point
You don’t have a “same page link” or your link isn’t working properly.
Page Layout
Excellent
Good
Poor
Contrast & Proximity 1 point
Based upon the C.A.R.P. page layout technique covered in week 3, you made good use of Contrast and Proximity throughout your site. 0.5 points
Contrast and proximity were used well in some areas but could use improvement in others. 0 points
You didn’t make good use of contrast and proximity.
Alignment 1 point
Based upon the C.A.R.P page layout technique covered in week 3, you made good use of alignment throughout your site. 0.5 points
You made good use of alignment in some areas of your site but there was room for improvement in others. 0 points
You did not make good use of alignment.
Repetition 1 point
Based upon the C.A.R.P. page layout technique covered in week 3, you made good use of repetition both within pages and between all of the pages in your site. 0.5 points
You made good use of repetition in some areas of your site but there’s some room for improvement. 0 points
You did not make good use of repetition in your site.
Content, Design, & Usability
Excellent
Good
Poor
Written Content 3 points
There is a significant amount of original written content. That content is well written, using proper spelling, grammar, and sentence construction. 1.5 points
You were a little light on original written content. But the content you have is well written, using proper spelling, grammar, and sentence construction 0 points
Your site was lacking in written content or the content you have needed improvements.
Copyright and Citations 2 points
You included a valid copyright statement (with the copyright symbol) to cover your original content. The The sources for any text, images, sounds, and scripts that are not original are properly cited -or- you included a statement that all content was original. 1 point
You included a valid copyright statement (with the copyright symbol) to cover your original content. You didn’t cite sources for any text, images, sounds, and scripts that are not original. 0 points
You left out the copyright statement and citations.
Readability 1 point
Your text and links are of a size, color, and style that is very easy to read on the chosen background color or graphic. 0.5 points
Most of your text and links are of a size, color, and style that is somewhat to read on the chosen background color or graphic 0 points
Because of your text and link styles and choice of background color or graphic, some of your content is difficult to read.
Visual Appeal 1 point
Text and graphic placement is visually appealing throughout your site. 0.5 points
Most text and graphic placement is visually appealing, but there’s some room for improvement. 0 points
Text and graphic placement is not visually appealing. This may have to do with placement of images, text wrapping around images, or trapped white space.
Unifying Elements 1 point
There are extensive unifying elements that make all of your pages appear as though they belong together. 0.5 points
There are some unifying elements that make your pages appear as though they belong together. 0 points
There aren’t sufficient unifying elements to make your pages appear as though they belong together.
Criteria
Excellent
Good
Poor
Validation 2 points
Your pages validate without errors using the W3c HTML and CSS page validators. You’ve placed icon or text links to your validation results at the bottom of each page. 1 point
Your pages validate without errors using the W3c HTML and CSS page validators but you may have missed the links to results. 0 points
Your pages don’t validate without errors using the W3c HTML and CSS page validators.
Overall Score
Excellent 25 or more
Good 12.5 or more
Poor 0 or more

