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Overview

This project wraps up the Web imaging skills you've gained. The goal is to create an artistic overall effect, with harmonious colors, tasteful elements, attractive, interesting, and clear. There are a number of themes you can use for your project, and you are welcome to use a theme of your own - something of special interest for you.

Themes

Choose a theme that's both interesting and practical - something you'd like to do that's within reach. Here are some suggestions:

• Diversity at WCC
• Where to go for help at WCC
• Friends are forever!
• Architecture at WCC
• The family that plays together, stays together
• Computer components and peripherals
• The best (or worst) vacation ever
• My Dream Car...?

Doing It

Create a home page for your theme. You may use any combination of graphic and HTML tools, including Photoshop, ImageReady, Fireworks, or if you know how to use them, Dreamweaver or HTML. The page should incorporate these elements:

• Text welcoming the viewer, explaining the theme, and commenting on the pictures. Some of the text should be attractively curved.
• Colors should be planned so as to have a predominant color theme, as defined and illustrated in Module D05c.
• The background should be an interesting, colorful graphic (photo or design), enhancing your theme without distracting your visitors from the foreground.
• Elements you scanned - at least 2; one should be from screened printed materials (newspapers, magazines, books, or professionally printed brochures). (Module D41h)
• Digital photographs you took, relevant to the theme - at least 2. (Module D42h)
• Navigation using rollover buttons - at least 4. Link to your own material, or to Web resources related to your theme. (See module D33i to review buttons and rollovers.)
• At least one "hotspot" with text or graphics that appear somewhere other than the hotspot itself, linking to either your own pages or to Web resources related to your theme. (Module D34i)

Export and publish the results. Be ready to give a brief overview in class of your page, emphasizing how you planned and designed the page and why you decided to use the colors, layout, and graphical elements you used.

Audience: This is for people who have completed a number of Web graphic projects and are ready to put the results together in a project.

Objectives: When you successfully complete this lesson, you will be able to...

• Plan a Web page of your own, from scratch
•  Incorporate graphics from digital input devices into your Web production.
•  Assemble HTML Web pages incorporating your graphic work.
•  Use FTP software to publish files on the WCC student Web server.

About this document...
Module D45h: This document is part of a modular instruction series in computer technology. For more information, see the overview or the list of modules in this series, D: Desktop Publishing and Computer Graphics. This document has been used in the following classes:

Author: Laurence J. Krieg
Institution: Internet Professional Department, Washtenaw Community College
History: Original: June 2000; This revision posted  Monday, 31-Aug-2009 11:47:56 EDT
Copyright © 2002, Laurence J. Krieg, Washtenaw Community College

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