Small Business Web Site Assignment
Your team will create a simple web site for a small business such as a restaurant, clothing store, or book store. It can be a real or a made-up business.
For example, see this web page for the "Blue Jay Cafe", which doesn't really exist. Only the "Reviews" link goes anywhere.Each team member will be responsible for one page on the web site.
Do these steps:
- Look at the small business web sites from the first semester. Click here for a link to last semester's small business web sites. Yours will be much better than these because you have five more week of web design experience.
- As a team, fill out the Design Worksheet. There is a copy in your team folder in the outbox. Look at this sample worksheet for an example of how to fill it out. Do not work on the web site until the worksheet is complete.
- Each team member makes one web page in Dreamweaver. Use the paper layout and the design worksheet to guide your page design.
You will be graded using this rubric. The first two items are graded as a team. The rest are graded for your individual page.
| RUBRIC | 5 points | 7 points | 10 points |
| Design worksheet (team grade) | Many questions missing or poorly answered | Mostly good answers | Detailed answers to all questions. |
| Clear purpose (team grade) | It's hard to tell what this web site is about | The viewer can tell what this web site is about | The viewer quickly knows the purpose of the web site. All pages have a uniform theme. |
| Page design | Page layout and color is not appealing or well thought out. | Page looks OK. | Page is attractive and well thought out. |
| Creativity | Page is dull and uninteresting | Some effort was made to make the page fresh and interesting | Page is very fresh and interesting |
| Customer appeal | Page makes the business look bad | Customer might use the business | The page will draw customers to the business |
| Web conventions | No alt text, page titles or credits | Some missing alt text, page titles or credits | All alt text, page titles and credits are present and correct |
| Looks real | The web page doesn't look anything like a real business | Some parts of the web page look like a real business | The web page looks very much like a real business |
| Writing | Writing has many grammar and spelling errors or isn't clear | Writing is clear and has few grammar and spelling errors | Writing is high quality with at most two grammar and spelling errors |