Project 1 for G5BUID - HTML Design

Due date: 17 November, 1997, 3 pm GMT.

Each of these parts should generate about a page or two of word processed text with supporting documents as necessary. Turn in printed copies to Farida.

Papers should be single stapled in the upper left hand corner. Binding or page protectors will be removed during grading and will not be returned (so don't use them).

Worth 25% of the marks for this module.

  • Analyse existing web pages. (25%)

    Look at the CS department's web pages (http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/) Provide 5 concrete suggestions for improving, explaining how and why the suggestions would make it better. Be clear about which subpage you are referring to by including a copy of it. The reasons for changes should come from material covered in the module.

  • Design a home page for the Dismal spreadsheet (75%)

    Pretend you are a consultant. Create a useful design of a web page describing dismal, and make a case for your design of this page. You will have to include some assumptions about probable users of the web page (you may reference users of dismal as well, but the focus is on the web page, not dismal itself). The design should live in your directory as a file called ~/uid/dismal.html . Written design study (including a hardcopy of all the pages) to be handed into Farida. It should include your user name on it.

    There are several citations to Dismal within my web pages, one direct reference, and there may be further information on the net.

    If you would like to try out dismal, Kevin Hopkins has kindly installed it on most CS systems. You can load it into your emacs by typing "M-x load-file /usr/local/lib/emacs/dismal-1.2/dismal-mode-defaults.el", or by putting in your .emacs file: "(load-file " /usr/local/lib/emacs/dismal-1.2/dismal-mode-defaults"). You should not install it in your home directory, for this is a waste of disk space.

    After you have loaded it, when you open a file (old or new) ending in ".dis", it is put in dismal-mode. C-h m (help on mode) will then tell you more about how to use dismal.