Web Development Rhetoric RHE 309K • Fall 2008

Personal Site Update

Important First Step

Do NOT delete or overwrite the first version of your site.

I want you to keep a copy of your first version for comparison.

  1. Log into your folder on the course server using FTP.
  2. Download a complete copy of the folder called "personal" that you created for the previous assignment.
  3. Change the name of the COPIED folder to "update".
  4. Work with the copies in the update folder from here on in.

Requirements

Make the pages look more appealing using colors and backgrounds. Borders are also very useful (those won't be covered till the lesson after this is due, but they're pretty easy — consult your textbook).

Give all three pages (index.html, hobby.html, and links.html) a consistent appearance. They should all have the same basic layout, coloring, and general appearance. Use an external style sheet to control the appearance of your HTML files. Note: you should have just one external style sheet that all three HTML files link to, not a separate external style sheet for each one.

Add "you are here" indicators to your navigation so that people can tell which page they're looking at. You don't need to use the words "you are here", though. For example, you might give the currently active link a different background color, a different font, or a different background image.

Also, please add the following to your HTML:

  • TITLE attributes to all links. This lets you create little "tooltips" that give more information about where the link goes before people click it.
  • ALT text on all images. If the image has text in it, the alt text should have the same text in it. (Note: if the image is a background image added with CSS, you don't need to add alt text for it, and in fact you can't.)

Publish your page

Follow the same procedure as the first time, except that now the files go in the folder named "update".

Submit your work sample

Submit the address for the updated site as a work sample in your learning record. The URL for the finished page will be:

http://www2.cwrl.utexas.edu/~martin/Fall2008/YourLastName/update/

Be sure to double-check that the address works before you submit it.