Grading Criteria for Final Project
Your site will be evaluated on the following basis:
- Specific color scheme, navigational system and design approach
carried throughout site.
- Each page has
- A header providing an informative title for the page's content
- A footer which includes text-based navigational links. These
link to at least a local home page and the second level pages
- author information (such as a copyright)
- Content and overall usability consistent with target audience/customers.
- All material is in compliance with copyright laws.
- The site is complete with links and images intact and uploaded
onto the server.
- All file names contain only alphanumeric characters (no spaces,
slashes, dashes, etc.)
- All images are optimized and site loads quickly. (Only in
rare cases should a page be more than 50k.)
- The site is cross-browser and cross-platform compatible.
(GDT 150 compatibility
requirements)
- This includes non-Javascript enabled browser friendliness.
- Alternate labels for all images.
- Each page has an informative title (in the head of the document).
- Text links for all image maps.
- Anchors used for all long pages.
- Top four vertical inches (thirty square inches) of home page
includes relevant content and main navigational links.
In terms of specific items to put into the site, include the
following:
- Images saved as a jpegs or gifs.
- Tables for layout.
- Type rendered in Photoshop or Image Ready.
- Links within the site and to other sites on the Internet.
- Custom navigational graphics including rollovers.
Recommendations:
- Use browser safe colors for the main navigation graphics
(buttons, graphic header, etc.) and use the gif file format.
- Any "extras" that you wish to add should be done
after you have constructed the site. This would include animation,
complex rollovers, audio, etc..
Examples of good professional sites:
(this list focuses on well designed, highly-functional, user-friendly
sites)