IT 130

Fall 2016

Craig Miller

Weekly Notes

Assignments

Technical References

Assignment 7
Site Plan and Quiz
Submit before 11:30 PM Friday November 4

Overview

For this project, you will propose a plan for an information web site. It should provide visitors information on a topic of your choosing. An example topic might be a hobby, tips for new students, a guide to products (e.g. computers, video games, cell phones), local stores (e.g. clothes, shoes, music), restaurants (e.g. pizza, ethnic), or anything for which you would have an interested audience. Keep in mind that your final site should have roughly 6 to 12 pages. The content of the site must be your original work and not copied from other media.

Also for this project, you will create a simple quiz and implement it with web pages. Ultimately the quiz will be part of your final web site. So, it should cover questions consistent with the site's content. The page will score the answers and provide a written assessment.

Other than the quiz, you do not need to develop your proposed web site for this week's assignment.

Plan for Web Site

On a web page, provide an overview of the following information:

  • A summary of the content that your web site will present (2-4 sentences).
  • The information architecture of your web site, that is, an overview of topics or categories that the main page will link to. Each topic or category should have a description (1-3 sentences each).
  • A link to the quiz
  • Optional: A link to a demo page such as the page you created for assignment 3.

Writing and presentation count! Plans that have misspellings, incoherent sentences and poor formatting will not receive full credit.

Quiz Requirements

Your page must ask at least 5 questions, show the number of correct answers and provide at least three different written assessment messages depending on the score.

You will probably want to refer to this web page (discussed in class), which shows how to create radio buttons and checkboxes as well as how JavaScript can test whether an item is checked.

For additional challenges (and a more interesting quiz), consider adding the following:

  • Styles
  • Penalty assessment for egregiously wrong answers
  • Questions that allow for multiple selections
  • JavaScript that immediately responds to selecting an answer (see JS events for details).

Note that your quiz will be far more interesting if your readers have a reasonable chance at getting them correct.

Deliverables

Using the D2L submission site, tell me the URL of your page that presents your proposed plan for the web site.