EGR 199: Fundamentals of Engineering	Creating Your Own Web Site Term Project 2
	10/14/99	Prabhaker Mateti

Executive Summary

This document describes the second project for the Fall 1999 term of EGR199. Students will form into groups of three each, and build a web site. The visual theme of the site and the subject content is left to the choice of the group. For the purposes of EGR199, there are two goals: one, that the students develop team skills; two, develop a sophisticated web page of multiple files, Java applets, JavaScriptlets, etc.

Educational Objectives

After completing the project, students should be able to:

1. Develop interesting web pages using HTML, Java, and JavaScript.
2. Publish their web pages.
3. Manage a small project with deadlines
4. Work in teams

Due Dates

All e-mails mentioned below should be sent to pmateti@cs.wright.edu by the due date no later than 11:59PM. If you are late by d days, the penalty is 10*d^2 % of the assigned weight for that component of the Project2. The subject field in these e-mails must be exactly "EGR 199 Web Design Project".

Oct 22, 1999, 5%

Form into teams of three each, and send one e-mail per team announcing the names of members. This e-mail contributes 5% of the Project2 grade. There are 65 students, and we expect one group to have only two members.

Oct 29, 1999, 5%

Send an e-mail announcing the content topic of yourWeb site. This e-mail contributes 5% of the Project2 grade. There are two obvious choices for the topic.
(i) A site that describes your team and its members in terms of your hobbies and interests. You can continue the work you did in the 2-hour lab.
(ii) The topic of your "How Things Work" project. But, feel free to choose something that really interests you.

Nov 15, 1999, 40%

A semi-final version of your web, ready to "show-and-tell." Send an e-mail announcing the URL of your web. This version should appear to be at least half-complete. This version contributes 40 % of the Project2 grade.

Nov 23, 1999, 50% (Last Day of Classes)

The Final version of your web. Send an e-mail announcing the URL of your web. This version should be complete. This version contributes 50 % of the Project2 grade.

Requirements

• Prior to beginning the project, read the Creating Your Own Web Site document of EGR199.  Visit all the links listed in Further Reading.
• Your team is expected to work as a group of peers. Each member is expected to contribute equally. We will be assigning the same score on Project2 to every team member, unless deviations from these expectations are discovered or reported.
• Your web site should, minimally, have the following web page elements.
  • five links to bookmarks within your web
  • five links to places outside your web
  • three bulleted lists
  • three numbered lists
  • three definition lists
  • ten clip art images
  • three animated GIF image
  • two tables
  • two frames
  • a mailto URL to each member of the group
  • one Java applet
  • two JavaScript methods
• You need only use Java applets and JavaScript methods that others have written (properly acknowledged, of course) perhaps found on the web. You are not expected to write/develop your own. But, it is a lot of fun to learn a bit of JavaScript and write your own code!
• Your web site should consist of at least six separate HTML files. All the images must be located in a directory called "images".  If we print a hard-copy of all the web pages of the final version of your site, we expect it be about a dozen 8.5in x 11in pages.
• Your web (both semi-final and final versions) should include one page that shows the log of work your team did. This log should list each and every meeting your team had, and describe the minutes of that meeting.
• Your web site should be cohesive, not a collage of incongruous things. It should give the visitors an impression that is positive and respectful of freshman engineering students.
• Your web pages must be properly viewable in (recent versions of) both Netscape and IE browsers.
• Your team must publish the web pages developed at two locations. You may choose any one of the team members' www directory on the WSU CaTS for this purpose.  The second location is at a free web space server.