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Computer Studies SG 

Modified 01 March 2007

School web site

  1. Create a web site for your school. It needs the following information displayed in 4-6 pages:
    1. mission statement
    2. subjects offered
    3. sport and cultural activities offered
    4. a policy (Aids, drugs, language, etc.)
    5. a response form about any school topic and an
    6. index or main page.
  2. The information must be meaningful and a credit to your school.
  3. Use the checklist to guide yourself in creating the site.
  4. Upload the site to netfirms or any other web hosting site.
  5. Look at my site millerchile.netfirms.com and phs2006matric.netfirms.com
  6. My experience in creating that site are the following:
    1. All files used in the site must be one word, not mission statement but missionstatement or mission_statement.
    2. Mouse overs did not work.
    3. No file may be more than 500 kb
  7. Submit
    1. a Word document with the name of your URL.
    2. 5-10 lines of comments from friends, learners, colleagues about your site.
    3. Completed checklist
  8. Assessment:
    1. Technical details - 75%:
      1. Complete the check list.
      2. Calculate your mark for technical details.
    2. Information - 25%:
      1. I will look at the information and evaluate it.
CHECK LIST FOR TECHNICAL DETAILS

Tick if done
General  
Used templates for many pages  
Used meaningful information in title area  
Gave files meaningful names  
Gave files short names  
Landline telephone numbers  
Physical addresses  
Little scrolling down as all information seen on the screen   
Last date modified indicated  
Current date which updates automatically  
Email feature on Index page indicated  
Added marquee somewhere in whole web  
Meta tags used so that the school could easily be found  
Linked to a URL somewhere in the web  

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Layout, text and images  
Inserted pictures in cells in the template table  
Aligned pictures ‘correctly’  
Used table to chunk/arrange information  
Images written on  
Images edited  
Images bevelled  
Images given borders  
Parts of images made transparent  
Large images made into thumbnails which worked  
Saved images in the Images folder (cannot check on Netfirms)  
Images can be ‘read’ by visually impaired browsers  

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Identity  
Each page formatted with a background  
Each page formatted with the same background  
Used pictures/image bullets throughout  
Used similar pictures/image bullets throughout  

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Structure  
Linked pages with hyperlinks  
Linked pages with an image map  
Bookmark long pages from the top down  

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Interactivity    
Obtained email responses via a form with checkboxes   
Obtained email responses via drop down boxes  
Obtained email responses via text boxes   

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Information  
All files that are found are in accessible format, i.e. pdf or zipped or html  
All information well written with no grammar or spelling mistakes  

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