Specification
Design and develop a website. The idea is to provide information to tourists visiting the exhibition. The goal is to allow visitors to obtain an overview of the exhibition layout and to find details of exhibits they would like to visit.
Resources
Resources such as images and details of opening hours can be found in ProResource.ZIP. The content of the ZIP file is:
- Four folders named Domestic Robots, Educational Robots, Industry Robots and Military Robots. Each folder contains images relating to the different types of technology indicated by the name of its folder.
- A text file Item_List.txt contains the names of the artefact corresponding to each of the image from each folder. You need to use these names as the official description of the artefact on your web site.
- A text file Business_Hours.txt containing the time-table of opening hours and entrance fees to the exhibition.
General Requirements
The managers of Robot Expo insist that the following requirements must be adhered to:
- Each webpage of the website must display the Robot Expo logo. You can edit this image, but the font style, type and colour must remain as in the original image.
- Do not change the proper names of the item. Do not rename the filenames of any of the images.
- All images of each artefact must be presented to the visitor. This can be done within one webpage or distributed across several web pages. The idea is to ensure that visitors are made aware of the complete selection of items available for them to visit.
- The images are to be used as it is. You can resize the images retaining the original aspect ratio, but do not crop or edit (e.g. recolour, touch up, sharpen, etc.) or rename the images in any way.
- Generate a separate page providing the opening and business hours. The details are found in the Business_Hours.txt file.
- Text description for each item is not provided. You can provide your own ‘dummy’ text (i.e. lorem ipsum) to demonstrate the functionality of your web page design.
Example of Users Interacting with the Website
The visitor to the website will be greeted by a welcome message and the following layout of the floor plan of the exhibition. The visitor clicks on any of the exhibition hall (circles). It should bring up details of the specific hall selected with relevant artefacts. The visitor clicks on any of the images of the artefacts to obtain furtherinformation on that image. In addition, if the visitor selects an option to display opening hours and/or entrance fees, a separate page should appear to provide this information. Note this is the basic requirement, it is up to you to implement other details e.g. instructions, navigational control, etc.
To complete the given project specified in the Background section above, you are to create a prototype of a stand-alone website for a desktop computer and mobile device. Design your website to be rendered by a web browser to fit a desktop computer display between 1024x768 to 1280x1024 pixels. The website should also adapt responsively to mobile devices. The breakpoint between the display sizes for desktop computer and mobile device should be approximately 500x720 pixels. The mobile device should also adapt responsively when it is rotated to a landscape orientation.
The site must have pages that display at least three levels of information. The contents and resources have been provided in the above specification. The website will be assessed forcohesiveness, accessibility, design and development effort. Responsiveness of each of thewebpages will be tested using Google Chrome’s developers device simulator. The breakpointfor the simulated mobile device will be set to approximately 500x720 pixels.
The complete stand-alone website should be created progressively as specified by each week’s activities. These activities are to be documented and reported in Portfolio 2.
Use any combination of HTML5 and CSS3 to develop this website. Remember to indicate which desktop browser (i.e. IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) you are targeting as the main working platform for desktop computers. As for mobile devices, please use a generic device with a display of approximately 500x720 pixels to be tested using Google Chrome’s developers device simulator.
Do not use Rapid Application Prototyping (RAD) tools or any other type of scripting languages or services, e.g. Python, Lua, AJAX, Dreamweaver, etc. You are required to demonstrate yourknowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 independently and without the assistance of automateddevelopment and visual design tools.
Your website should be developed to be capable of launching directly from localised desktop computers. That is, the landing page (i.e. the first page or top page) of your website can be launched by calling or opening main.html or index.html directly fromwithin a web browser. No web server is required for Practical Assessment 1 and 2.
Submit one ZIP file folder to your Moodle course site online submission portal for this course. Please name this ZIP folder as PRACASSN_2.ZIP. This ZIP folder should contain the following: All necessary files, images, scripts, coding and resources should reside in a single main folder. It is up to you to organise the files and sub-folders within the main folder. Ensure that all yourscripts and coding is stand-alone and portable. That is, your marker or instructor should be able to run your scripts from the type of browser you have specified by clicking on the main.htmlor index.html startup file. The web browser you specified should render your markup and scripts without problems.
Assessment Criteria
The following criteria will be used to assess your assignment:
Criteria Marks
- Overall functionality. Web pages function as intended.
- Website demonstrates all aspects of a responsive web implementation.
- The completed website sufficiently demonstrates the main features of the initial design and its intended purpose.
- Quality of HTML5 and CSS3 coding techniques. Demonstrates proficiency in HTML5 and CSS3.
- Website and associated webpage design corresponds closely to the work reported in Portfolio Conversely, the details presented in Portfolio 2 should be supportive of the prototype implementation as demonstrated in Practical Assessment
Gather the graphics to use on the different pages of your site. This is provided in the PRORESOURCE.ZIP folder. For other graphics that are not included, please exercise your creativity to create graphics that you will use in the project. These include banner, navigation, section, or identifying graphics. Add these graphics to the test pages of your site. Test the images in multiple browsers to make sure they are displayed properly. Think about the different color requirements for your content, and decide how you can enhance the legibility of the content. Can color help communicate the structure of your information?
Determine the color choices for your web site. Pick the colors for text, table backgrounds, and page backgrounds. Establish graphics standards for your web site, including but not limited to the following:
- Decide whether you will use a standard amount of white space around each graphic.
- Determine exactly which img attributes should be included in all <img> tags.
- Formulate a standard for all alt and title attributes.
- Formulate a basic set of image standards for your site. Use this as the display standard for testing your graphics.
- Determine colors of links and visited links.
- Write a short standards document that can be provided to anyone who contributes to the site.
