As promised, we will be conducting a contest among class members
to determine who can design the "best" personal home
page, as determined by a ballot of the class members. This is
a chance for you to try out (in a limited environment) some of
the things we have discussed about interface design.
You may develop your home page using whatever environment you
wish, but completed pages must be accessible through our web server
(pcsel.scu.edu) no later than March 6. Your file must be
named index.html. We will set up a central home page with links
to each class member's personal page. Begin development of your
homepage using whatever resources you can (personal machine, work,
Design Center). By next week you will have an account established
on our server (your first initial and last name will be the account
name - up to 8 characters, with password your SSN). FTP your homepage
to that account and change the file access mode to 755 (chmod
755 *.*). If you want your materials to be resident on a different
server, just include a link to that URL in your index.html file.
Your home page must include the following components:
You may add any additional features you think desirable: an image
of you, MPEG video of your pet piranha being fed lunch, digital
sound from your last karaoke evening, caricatures of the COEN
396 professor, etc. If you're really anxious to win the contest,
you might want to try some of the interface evaluation techniques
we've talked about to improve your design.
For those students who wish to put images on the system and don't
have other access to a means of encoding them, the Design Center
will scan images for you and place them in your scudc account.
That will allow you to ftp them to whatever site you want.
A copy of Norman's "Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions
of Automobiles"
Your choice of an SCU coffee mug or sports bottle