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Create your own information web |
Create your own information web
Due Dates: Thursday February 7, 2002, at 11:59 pm
What are you interested in? What do you know about that other people on
the Web might like to learn? The Web has an extremely low signal-to-noise
ratio and sorely needs your valuable expertise. Your job in this assignment
is to put some quality content out there on the Web.
What shall you write about? Really, anything you like. Do you have some
good recipes? Do you know more about the Chicago Bulls than any other
living human being? Would you like to make some original artwork available
to the world? Would you like to tell us something about the beauty and
culture of your home city or country? Have you figured out how to do
something for this course that would really help the poor students that
have to take it in the future?
Your assignment is to create a collection of Web pages revolving
around your interesting topic. You must meet the following technical requirements:
- You must have at least two frames in your "weblet."
- You must have no more than four frames in your "weblet."
- You must have at least five pages of content in your "weblet."
- Your pages must be linked to each other in some fashion.
- Your weblet must contain at least five images.
- You must use the following elements somewhere within your
weblet: lists, tables, image links, mailto, colored
backgrounds (or image backgrounds).
- You must include links to at least five related sites around the Web.
- The "first page" of your weblet must contain a link back to your home page or the CS 101 home page.
In addition, you must meet the following content requirements:
- The content must be original, or reflect significant research (and
proper references) to existing work. You should think of this as writing a
4 to 5 page paper for an English class. As a guide,
your weblet should contain about 20 paragraphs of information.
You may not take the content
simply from the WWW itself; it's already out there, so you won't be
adding anything new.
- The writing must be your own.
- Spelling, grammar, and punctuation count. Have somebody else read
it for you to make sure that it makes sense, and use your dictionary.
- Your weblet must reflect some attention to page layout and design,
and should have a consistent "look" from page to page.
- Navagation around your weblet must be consistant and obvious.
Grading will be out of a maximum of 100 points.
Grading will be split between the two sets of requirements: 50 points for
meeting the technical requirements, and 50 points for meeting the content
requirements. The technical points should be almost automatic, but we
will be grading fairly tough on content.
You should get an early start on your research for content.
As always, late assignments will not be accepted.
You must electronically submit all of your files (all .html files,
all image files and any other files used with your weblet) to the Digital
Drop Box for CS 101 in CourseInfo. You must zip all of your files
together before dropping one (and only one!) zip file on the
drop box. Follow the following steps to zip your assignments:
- Create a directory with the name of NNNNN_PPP, where NNNNN is your
netid and PPP is the name of the assignment you are working on
(i.e. lab4, mp2, etc.).
- Put all needed files into the directory created in step 1.
- Zip the entire folder. It is suggested to use WinZip on a PC and
gzip on a UNIX machine.
- Submit the created zip file to the Digital Drop Box.
i101@cs.uic.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago