Personal Project Page

Create a page that will serve as your home base for the course. Use a single-screen layout, and be sure to include basic contact information, links to your project submissions, and other information of use to you, your classmates, and me. Remember to include a link to your "about me" page, which contains select information from your interest survey that you choose to share with the class. You can use the template(s) provided for a start. The first version is due on 9/7/2005. You must follow the web specifications for this course. Successfully completing the project will require that you update and maintain the site throughout the semester.

Workshop: W⁴ Web Page (HTML/XHTML)

Assignment: Adapted from Professor Zappen's specifications.

Produce a simple Writing to the World Wide Web (W⁴) web page with a title (Writing to the World Wide Web), your name, an image, two headings (one for Workshop Assignments and one for your Selected Portfolio) and links for your first two assignments, the HomePage, About Me Page, and the Workshop on Tables. Place each of the links under the appropriate heading (Professional Background Statement under Writing Assignments and Workshop: Tables under Workshop Assignments).

Design your W4 web page in conformity with the current W3C XHTML 2.0 standard and the Web Design Specifications for this course. Use the W3C MarkUp Validation Service to validate your code. Once you have established that your code is valid, display the W3C validation icon at the bottom of your page.

Name your file for this page index.html and post it in your public_html directory on RCS. Keep in mind that anyone can read what you post in your public_html directory (even if you have not linked to it), so do not include any information in this directory that you do not want accessible to the public.

A sample W⁴ web page is posted at http://www.rpi.edu/~zappenj/WWWW/wwwwddm2.html. Some sample page layouts (with tables) are posted at http://www.rpi.edu/~zappenj/WWWW/wwwwtbl1.html, http://www.rpi.edu/~zappenj/WWWW/wwwwtbl2.html, and http://www.rpi.edu/~zappenj/WWWW/wwwwtbl3.html.

Some Rensselaer logos and images are posted at http://www.rpi.edu/~zappenj/Rensselaer/. Some Troy and Troy-area photographs are posted at http://connectedkids.sbrl.rpi.edu/TroyArtHistory/TroyPhotoArchive/tpa.html.