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Webpage Design and Development, CPST-2400-10
Fall 2010

Case Problem - Week 12, Monday, Nov 15
Maxwell Scientific
Due 11:59 PM, Sunday, Nov 21
Final Exam
Assignment
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There are eight (8) data files needed for this Case Problem.

Complete Tutorial 9 in your text book. Practice with Case Problems 1 and 2. Review Case Problem 4, p.560, in the textbook.

Tutorial 9, Case Problem 4

Maxwell Scientific

Maxwell Scientific is a online Web site that sells science kits and educational products to schools and educators. Chris Todd, the head of the Web site development team, is leading an effort to update the company's Web site. He has given you some text files and graphic images. You may supplement this material with any additional files and resources at your disposal. Your job will be to develop this material into a Web site that is compliant with XHTML 1.0 strict standards. To ensure that the completed Web page is both well formed and valid, he wants you to test it on W3C Validator before submitting it to him.

The design of the Web site and each individual page is up to you, but it should include the following features:

  1. The Website should include six files, with the names astro.htm, chem.htm, elect.htm, eng.htm, physics.htm, and Maxwell.htm (the home page).
  2. Decorate your HTML with comments that make it easy for George to recognize the sections that will be graded.
  3. Your HTML should be easy for others to read and interpret.
  4. Your website should be easy to navigate.
  5. Your website should be attractive and well designed.
  6. Use an external style sheet named mw.css to contain styles you create.
  7. Use an external style sheet named printer.css to insure that your pages printability.
  8. You may use other .css external style sheets as required by your website design.
  9. Each page should be designed as an XHTML 1.0 strict document. Include all necessary declarations and namespaces. This is different from what we have done so far ... and W3C Markup Validation will treat it differently. Be certain you get this part correct. The declarations MUST look like this (feel free to copy it):
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
           "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    If any of your WebPages use Frames, then the correct declarations MUST look like this:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  10. Test your WebPage under a variety of Web Browsers

When you are finished:
  1. Use FTP to upload your completed web page to your Tulane CPST WebSite
  2. Copy the URL of your website's main page and paste it into a new eMail message to George (gnorth@tulane.edu). Subject of this eMail MUST be "Tutorial 9 - Case Problem 4 - Final Exam"