website

**Assigned: Feb 16th** **Due: March 29th (in class)**
 * CCT460: Assignment #2 – Website**

**Introduction**: We've worked through some basic walkthroughs to help you familiarize yourself with content type creation, views, blocks and image handling in drupal. In //over//engineering our CV pages, you've learned skills that could be applied to producing more complex publishing workflows. In working with the NineSixty theme you've learned the basics of manipulating a theme – that is, understanding how content regions managed through the CMS tie back to CSS stylesheets. So, now that you have rudimentary drupal design literacy, we're going to spend the remainder of the course working up your personal sites – customizing them so that they fit your needs.

**Assignment**: Working with the NineSixty theme (or choosing a new theme to work with from scratch) start filling out your site beyond the CV page. Depending on your studies and interests this could result in very different needs but you might consider adding some combination of: a blog, a portfolio with a template for individual project pages, an archive for your academic writing, photo galleries, or other functionalities (there is a world of modules out there right?). Beyond content, you might choose to focus on exploring interface and various jQuery tools and—no matter what—you will also have to determine what is an appropriate landing page for your content and the type of impression you want to make. Don't feel compelled to take on and implement dozen of features, try to take the time to do a few things very well. This is not only an exercise in design, but planning.

**Evaluation**: This assignment is worth 40% of your mark. Students will primarily be evaluated on:
 * 1) How cohesive their final site is in regards to type, readability, organization.
 * 2) Variance and sophistication in the landing page vs. sub pages vs. individual nodes.
 * 3) How far they have progressed from the CV exercise.
 * 4) Cross browser compatibility will also be considered – your page should perform equally well in the most recent versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari (or students are expected to be aware of inconsistent performance and will submit a related report).
 * 5) Ambition, and ingenuity will also be taken into consideration

You are now charged with building on the framework you've constructed. Please note the below rubric that breaks down how marks will be allocated/rewarded:




 * Participation Mark – Wiki Progress Report:** Don't forget that 7% of the term mark is awarded for your wiki progress report. You are expected to create either a tutorial or document some troubleshooting related to your work for the benefit of the class. See the participation rubric page for further details.

**Design statement**: Each student will have to submit a short text outlining their design philosophy (500 words max), identifying where they had issues, identifying cross-browser compatibility issues and outlining their future plans for their site (if they have any). **This is to be submitted electronically as a .docx or .rtf via email on or by 1pm on March 29th.**

**Review:** We will dedicate the majority of the class on March 29th to review the work done by the group and we can compare approaches and share information about our techniques. Students that do not present in the final class will receive an automatic 10% penalty for lateness unless they have medical documentation.

//You will be provided with instructions as to how to download and backup site at the end of the semeser. This means you can take your site, port it into a hosting environment of choosing and keep developing this site as your personal web presence. Remember this, this project belongs to you – please approach/tackle it accordingly.//