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A Themed Page that Brings Together the Public and Personal YouFor this assignment, you'll create a single Web page that will be your personal home page for this course. It will serve to introduce yourself to me and your classmates--both verbally and visually--and to provide links to all your class projects and exercises, as well as to external Web sites that you would like to collect for yourself and your classmates. You may also use this page as your general, personal home page if you don't have one already. In addition to an array of required items that I'll ask you to design into this page, the centerpiece of your PCHP is a "theme"--a unifying idea that brings together the personal and public aspects of your identity. The theme might be drawn from a passion of yours (a kind of music you play or listen to), your major (if that's an important part of your identity), a place (a Florida theme if that's where you're from or where you're determined to live, or snow as an icon of Minnesota), or a possession that emblematizes your life (your beloved 1982 VW van). The theme will determine the choices you'll make about the visual and verbal content so the page isn't simply a grab bag of random items but a unified idea of you. A primary feature of your themed PCHP is an introductory statement that tells a story, or otherwise creates a voice, that brings together personal and public aspects of your identity. The theme isn't all there is to you or your life--no page can sum up that--but presents you from a particular angle that can make sense in a small space and gives us a start in getting to know you. Required ContentIn addition to mingling the public and personal "you's" into a unifying statement and a set of design elements, the Personal Course Home Page should also include:
What Makes This Project InterestingThis project gives you practice incorporating a variety of information like that above into a unfied Web-page design that is both publicly useful and personally expressive.Creatively, this assignment suggests that any Web page needs to have some guiding idea or theme to express, visually and verbally, the identity behind it, whether it is a person, an organization, or a company. CriteriaIn designing the page, you should consider
Sample PagesTake a look at some sample home pages on the Web to see how people have attempted to direct traffic among various kinds of audiences, intended uses, kinds of information or content, etc. on their home pages. Of course, not everything you find will be models you'll want to follow. To get you started, here's Internet researcher Christian Sandvig's home page. Check out some student PCHP projects from last semester, including one featuring a Jane-Austen-theme, or a VW van, or peas. What other home pages can you find that use themes to present a coherent identity? |
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