COMM1T Web Engineering

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COMM1T Web Engineering

• Group Assignment

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Details..

• For this assignment you will be required to work
  partly as a group and partly as an individual
• Engineer and publish a travel information website
  for a (fictitious) worldwide tour company.
• Your specification is as follows..

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Group work

• You should work as a team to design a corporate
  image for the company and engineer the overall
  structure and general pages of the website.
• These should include
• Company homepage
• Menu with links to each of the separate tourist
  locations
• Contact details
• Any other pages you feel appropriate for the
  "general" area of the website

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Group work

• Your group work should also include the
  development of a company stylesheet that you will
  all use within your individual tourism pages.
• Your group should integrate the individual
  websites produced and publish the overall company
  website on either the CAT account for one of the
  group members or via an Internet Service Provider
  (ISP) of your choice.
• Your group should provide documentation for your
  website

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Individual work

• Each member of the group should choose a travel
  destination of their choice (different from other
  members of the group).
• Produce your own tourism pages for this
  destination.
• These pages will be integrated into the company
  website described above so the website should
  keep within the corporate image and structure of
  the company (as agreed and produced above).

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Individual work

• The details of this individual component of the
  website are left to your own choice and
  imagination but you should remember that
• the purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate
  your knowledge and ability to use appropriate web
  engineering tools, so while some marks will be
  awarded for website content, the majority of
  marks will be awarded for appropriate use of the
  tools used.

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Individual work

• Marks will be awarded for appropriate use of the
  following web engineering tools
• Frames
• Forms
• JavaScript
• Stylesheets
• Graphical images and image maps
• Cookies
• Advanced technologies (e.g. XML)

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Individual work

• You are free to use HTML/JavaScript generating
  tools (e.g. Dreamweaver) but you must document
  the files produced (using comments) to show that
  you understand the code generated.
• Your website is expected to operate in either or
  both of Netscape Communicator 4.7 and/or Internet
  Explorer 5. If areas of your website use
  tools/technologies that are specific to only one
  of these browsers (e.g. data binding) then this
  should be made clear to the user.

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Formation of Groups

• You are allowed to form your own groups provided
  one member emails Giles Oatley (giles.oatley_at_sunde
  rland.ac.uk) a list of group members by
• 5pm on Wednesday 27th November 2002.
• Groups should contain 4 or 5 people.
• Any students who have not formed a group by this
  time will be allocated to a group.

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Allocation of marks

• Group Marks 40
• Corporate website design and content. 20
• Integration of individual websites and
  publication. 10
• Use of web engineering tools in the corporate
  website. 10
•  Individual Marks 60
• Individual component pages design and content.
  30
• Use of web engineering tools in the individual
  website. 30

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Plagiarism

• Any work which is plagiarised will not be
  tolerated

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Submission

•  You should submit the following
• The URL of the website produced.
• A floppy disk (or CDROM) containing all of the
  files produced for the website.
• A written report describing the structure of the
  website and indicating the author of each
  individual component.