COMM 223
Project #5
Final project web site – e-commerce site

Due Date: Monday, May 6

Create a web site that observes the rules of good design and exercises whichever web techniques you feel best support the target audience and good navigational practices.

This will be an imagined e-commerce site. You are not expected to include e-commerce functionality. We are only interested in design, navigation and flow. (Big Hints: Go to an e-commerce site such as LLBean.com and see what they do. If you need images for your site, go to a web site that deals with what you are “selling” and borrow some graphics using the Control-Click technique to “Save this image”.)

Include these elements:

• 10_____Uploaded to your web site on time and link to project works.
• 15_____Site follows the rules of good color and layout. All graphics correctly re-sized and optimized in Photoshop.
• 10_____Proper use of cascading style sheets
• 15_____At least 1 Browse Products page (show at least 3 products – can be small pics with short label. Use a table to organize.)
• 15_____At least 3 or more Product Detail pages (linked to from corresponding products on the Browse Products Page – should have larger picture of product, description, price and link to the Order page)
• 15_____An Order page (linked to from the Product Detail pages) containing a form text fields, drop-downs, radio buttons, etc. More points for more field types (correctly used).
• 5_____A video embedded in a page CAN be a YouTube embed. Can be instructional, promotional, historical, whatever.
• 10_____Correct use of Keywords and a Description metatag on every page.
• 5______A thank you page after submitting the order.
• Optional (up to 10 bonus points) –use your imagination, add pages for About Us (history and philosophy of company), links to similar sites, tips pages, advice pages, etc.

Use your imagination. Wacky and odd text and info is fine, but let the design be “real”.

Each project must have:

No frames! And, you must have a menu include include.

A folder at the root level of your site for this project named Project5.

Nothing in your Project5 folder except files HTML files for this project and an Images folder which contains all the images for this project.

A home page that appears in the initial index.html page and tells what the site is about. This page should be attractive and appropriate to your audience in both color and language.

Navigational links or buttons on each page that allow the viewer to move around your site. Users should always be able to get back to the home page from any page.

The home page must also include a banner at the top that tells the name/purpose of the site.