Your Personal Web Site

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Assignment Title >>    Your Web Site

Essential questions for this activity:

How can I create a web site about a topic of interest to me that is easy to understand and informative?

How can I appropriately include outside sources in my web site?

End product for this activity:

Your web site will include the following:

• Six photos or pieces of artwork included in the site.
• Correctly saved references for all the photos you use.
• Three text fields of about 150 words - all written by you.
• Links that navigate between all the pages of the site.
• Two examples of background colors.
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Here is how this assignment will be scored.

 >> Getting started?

1. Create a folder in your Computer Skills folder. Label it ‘Web Site'.
2. Create an MS Word document entitled ‘Sources’. Save it into your folder entitled ‘Web Site’.
3. Select a topic for your web site. It may be anything that’s appropriate, except an electronic-based service. Those are always off limits.
4. Save about 10-12 photos into the folder you just created. For every photo you save, keep the URL where you located it saved on to Sources.
5. Write the articles for your web site. You will write at least three articles of about 150 words each.

You will 'host' the web site to your H Drive. We'll talk about that in class. For now, it will be a good idea remember the following points:

• Please, be creative, but always remember there are constraints involved in web site creation.
• For now, stick with the common fonts- Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Verdana.
• As you build your pages in MS Word, always insert your artwork.

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You will need 10 -12 pictures from which to choose AND their locations for you web site. Here's how to do it.

Pictures
Google image search > Search tools > Size > Medium > View image > SAVE PICTURE AS > Save to folder entitled 'Web Page' on your H Drive or flash drive.

Location
From the View image dialogue box listed above follow this path
Visit Page > Copy URL > Paste URL into a Word document > SAVE AS 'Directory' in Web Page folder ( the same folder where you saved your pictures > Add descriptions of artwork below the URL as you wish. These will be for your use later.

In addition to the work you do to build your page, you will be developing the following skills:

• SAVE AS to your H Drive
• How to conduct a Google image size search
• How to recognize valid sources of web information.

The photos you save and the stories you write will be your support files for this assignment.

Do you have these items?

• 10-12 photos
• A reference for each photo.
• Three articles about your topic. Each article should be at least 150 words.

 >> Instructions

1. Create a basic template for all your pages. How this works is up to you, but it's probably best if you use
   the same layout for all your pages.
2. As you locate sources and write your copy, be sure to keep in mind that sources must always be
   cited honestly.
3. Create a references page.

• Downloading files
• Table creation, borders and shading and such

• Template ideas
• The Power Point about how to create a web site in 37 easy steps. :)
• Knight Cite citation creator
• Preformatted links for your web page
• Click here to view the PDF file about how web file names and links work  here

Look at the checklist for step one. Do you have it done? here