CS 437/637 Database-Backed Web Sites and Web Services

Homework Assignment 1 (Part II)
(100 points)

Assigned Date:

Due Date:

Educational Goal:

Become familiar with professional Website design using HTML and CSS by separating presentation from content.

You should use the CS Unix server (users.cs.umb.edu) to host your web site.;

Requirements:

• (70 points) Pick a design example or examples from CSS Zen Garden, CSS Design Awards, 49 outstanding examples of CSS, and AWWWards, study the use of CSS and HTML by professional designers. Improve your own website that you have done in Homework 1-Part I based on the CSS example(s) you have studied using inline, internal, and external CSS. class attribute and pseudo class must also be used. Add CSS to all your web pages of your website, revise at least one page of your website using HTML 5.
• (10 points) Prepare one-page PPT slide to demonstrate the CSS example including the CSS properties you plan to use. Include URL of the CSS example, your first name and last name in the slide.
• (20 points) Turn in a brief report to explain the HTML 5 tags and CSS properties you have used.
• Turn in the paper copies of your web pages including the CSS and HTML source code and screen snapshots of the resulting web page. Hard copies should be bound firmly together as one pack. 5 points will be deducted for unbounded homework.
• Submit the softcopy of the files through your UMassOnline account. Zip all the files including the cover page into one ZIP file. Name the ZIP file as hwk1_part2_lastname_firstname.
• An invalid homework URL (You must provide URL of the revised web page and the URL of the CSS example in your cover page) results in 10 points deduction. 
• No hard copies or soft copies results in 0 points.