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Assignment #4

Due Monday, February 25

40 Points

  1. In this assignment, you will use HTML5 to author and publish your own homepage using the course Web server on wcit.cs.unh.edu. You must satisfy the following guidelines and requirements:

    1. The content of your homepage is up to you, but it should reflect some sort of coherent theme throughout. It is allowable, but by no means necessary, for your content to relate to your plans for your Final Project.
    2. You must use HTML5 to author your page.
    3. You must follow the best practices presented in the HTML Basics handout.
    4. The page must contain the minimal elements necessary to make it a valid HTML5 document as explained in lecture.
    5. The page must contain and appropriately utilize at least three paragraphs, one division and two line breaks.
    6. The page must contain and appropriately utilize at least three headings, which reflect at least two different levels of importance.
    7. The page must contain and appropriately use both emphasized text and strongly emphasized text.
    8. The page must contain a link that leads to the course homepage at http://www.cs.unh.edu/cit/403/index.html.
    9. The page must display the image published at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~amgilder/images/butterfly.jpgas a remote resource. Do not make and publish a local copy of this image. Simply use the URL as shown above when writing your HTML. Don’t worry if the image doesn’t complement your theme; the point here is to work through the mechanics necessary to display it.
    10. The page must be published in a file named index.html using the wcit server. In other words, the URL of your page should be http://wcit.cs.unh.edu/~xyz/index.html, where xyz is your UNH user name. When you click the “Homepage” link beside your name on the Homepages page, your rendered page should appear in your browser window without requiring any additional click of the mouse.
    11. Test your page by viewing it with a Web browser. Use the Homepage link beside your name on the Homepages page to verify that you work is available for grading. Be sure to check that your link to the course homepage works and verify that your image appears.
    12. Once your page is published, ensure that it validates as HTML5 without errors (warnings are okay) when you enter its URL into the W3C Markup Validation Service at http://validator.w3.org/. Fix any errors as necessary. Be sure to re-publish and re-validate after you fix errors or make changes.
    13. Once you are done, do not change your published page until the grades for this assignment appear on the Posted Grades page.

    The publishing process for Web pages is essentially the same as you used to publish your file for Assignment #3, though the names of the file and folder are different. If you have difficulties, review the Publishing Tutorial.

Important notes on grading

Although this should concern only a small percentage of students, it is important to note that during the grading process I will grade not only the HTML document required above but also any other HTML documents published within your home directory that can be reached by following a series of one or more links from that document. Therefore, if you have other HTML documents published on wcit that you do not want considered during the grading process, it is important that you not have any active links to them within the HTML document required above.

I will grade this assignment by examining the page that you publish on wcit.cs.unh.edu, so there is nothing for you to hand in or send to me. However, it is your responsibility to make sure you have published your page properly (using the appropriate link beside your name on the Homepages page) and then do not change your page until the grades have been posted.