The First Big Website Project

Let's now put together all that you've been learning into a meaningful project. Your goal in this project is to make a website about a topic that really interests you. It needs to be informative, beautiful to look at, and easy to navigate. Here's what you need to include:

1. A total of at least ten pages.

2. Each page needs to have at least one picture.

3. Each page needs to have at least one sentence of text, not copied from a website, but your own writing.

4. A starting page that links off your main page.

5. Links that go forward and and then wind up back at the start. Make it easy for the visitor to move around.

6. Links to other websites where the visitor can find more information.

7. Use break tags and make the pictures themselves links as well.

You can find many examples at: w3 schools basic html

8. This website has to be complete and ready to present to the class on Monday when we get back from vacation.

Don't worry about fonts, colors, and formatting. We will tackle all that in the next project when we look at what are called "style sheets."

Here's an example of what it should look like when you're done.


picture by Carl Wilson