Multimedia Projects

You will build a single multimedia website that demonstrates your work with different multimedia applications, and includes a description of what you did to achieve your results.

The website must be easy to use and accessible to disabled users. It should be designed to fulfill the plan you build in exercise 1, but you may modify and improve it with each successive project.

Standards Required:

• Web pages must pass W3C XHTML validation
  • review of XHTML syntax rules
• Use external Cascading Style Sheets to lay out and style your work for this class. Avoid inline styles, and internal stylesheets generated by Dreamweaver.
  • Web pages must pass W3C CSS validation
  • Use CSS validation on web developer's toolbar in browser or
  • Browse to W3C validation tool & upload file
  • Use Elastic layout so elements expand when the text inside them expands
  • Declare background color for any element for which you define a font color
  • Accessibility validator will have fewer warning notices
  • Makes it easier to test color contrast between font and background colors
• Web pages must pass Section 508 Accessibility tests, including tests that are not automatically performed
• Include date/time of last upload stamp at bottom of each page, generated by following JavaScript:

<p>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- hide from old browsers
document.write(" Last updated " + document.lastModified + ".")
// end script hiding -->
</script>
</p>

Deliverables 

• Plan ahead:  NO LATE PROJECTS will be accepted!
• Upload content to your directory on CIS department server, as you complete it! Waiting until the last minute is dangerous -- Unfinished content is better than NO content.
• Create an admin directory on your website to hold checklists, exercises, sourcelog, explanations, etc.
  • sample sourcelog
• Grading is based not only on COMPLETION of requirements, but on QUALITY of work and Analysis of exercises.
  • --> A "C" grade means you completed the requirements,
  • --> A "B" means the quality of your work is very good
  • --> An "A" requires excellence
• Name of first page should be home.htm -- Do not create a default page!
• Download Word versions of Project Requirements Checklist for project.
  • --> Fill in information on checklist
  • --> Upload the Word version to the Project Assignment in Blackboardfor grading.
  • --> Upload a checklist to your website in your admin directory (can be Word or convert to HTML).
  • --> Create a link from your webmaster page to your checklist.
  • --> You can pick up feedback on your graded requirements checklist as well as your grade in the Blackboard gradebook for the course
• Consult CSU fair use policy for guidelines on original web site content.
• Post a log of sources
  • --> If all of your content is original, state that on your sourcelog.
  • --> You must have permission from the copyright holder to use any non-original content
  • --> Paraphrase non-original text and indicate its source.
  • Sample Sourcelog
• Review class policies
• Be sure there are links from your webmaster page to the following:
• --> Checklist for project posted on your website in admin directory
• --> Your source log for that project, which can be cumulative)
• --> Explanations of how you did the work you show for the project, also cumulative.

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• Project 1. Website Design & Layout based on Project plan (exercise 1)- 75 points.
  • Upload Requirements checklist to Blackboard
• Project 2. Add Photoshop content and explanations to Website- 75 points.
  • Upload Requirements checklist to Blackboard
• Project 3. Add Flash animation content and explanations- 75 points.
  • Upload Requirements checklist to Blackboard
• Project 4. Add video content played from within a Flash movie with closed captioning and explanations- 75 points.
  • Upload Requirements checklist to Blackboard

• Web sites from the past
• Safari Electronic books on Web design, CSS, Adobe CS3 applications, available on-line through the Cal Poly Library

Fair Use

• Original content is preferred, so grab your camera and go take some photos
• Each project requires a sourcelog that lists the files and information you include on your website and the source or each one
• If all your files are original, just state that
• Otherwise, list the source of the file and state what kind of permission you have to use it.
• Even on a media sharing site, individuals can set different levels of permission for the re-use of their intellectual property, so you have to check the permission, and then check what that type of permission means on the site's intellectual property page.
• If you are using text, be sure to rephrase it (usually shorten it) and cite the original source.
• Check fair use policy for class to see the restrictions on fair use
• If you use someone else's intellectual property and claim it is your own work, you will get a ZERO on the project.

Royalty free files available at

• Royalty-free files available at http://www.archive.org
• Partners in Rhyme Royalty Free music & sound files
• Music site with music content, some of which can be used in your work if you attribute it: http://www.jamendo.com/en/
  • Check license restrictions on music you choose: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  • be sure to attribute work and type of license in your sourcelog
• Music files for non-commercial purposes (e.g. schools or personal web-sites) on the understanding that you provide a credit or link such as "music from www.mfiles.co.uk".
  • First, ask permission first by emailing mfiles
  • describe the intended purpose for the music and quoting your website URL were relevant.
  • post permission email in your admin folder

If you have any questions, check with instructor.