English 2200-Fall 2000
	English 2207-Fall 2000
Pretty Good Books	Questions or Comments?

Before saying anything else, I should remind you of the importance of content. All the pretty graphics in the world, all the wav.files and Quicktime movies, are not going to help you or your project if you have nothing to say, or if you don't say it well. As with any paper you would produce for a college level course, your website should have a worthwhile and significant thesis, an effective organization, appropriate documentation of sources, and some good, clear writing.

    With web projects, you may work individually or in pairs.

While organizing, drafting, and revising your own web project, it is essential that you follow the guidelines below. You may also wish to consult other evaluative, instructional, or "Netiquette" sites; some of these can be found by following links from the Learning Tools page. But generally, like other useful sites to be found on the Net, your sites should conform to the following standards:

• Clarity of purpose
• Ease of navigation, reading, and use
• Responsible authorship.
• Validity of informational content
• Usefulness and significance of informational content
• Conformity with site ethos and appearance
• Other course-specific requirements:
• All web-projects should make clearly visible the names of the student or students involved, a working e-mail address, the name of the course and of your instructor.  All should include the date you created the page (and most recent update, if applicable).
• The "splash page" or first page for your site should be saved as"your initials+proj.html".  Mine would be jmdproj.html, for example.  All other parts or pages should be saved with the same initials and an appropriate abbreviation (no capitalization or spaces, please). The only exceptions to this important rule are images that appear on all the project sites (image37.jpg, celt.gif, henge.gif, and firering.gif).
• The splash page should at least contain a hyperlink to your course materials page (http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/220-00.html) or (http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/281-00.html) and probably one to the Pretty Good Books web page (http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/prtygdbk.html).  It should also contain links to other sections of your own project.
• In the interest of some conformity of appearance, your splash page (at least) should use one of the same background images (image37.jpg or celt.gif) and (perhaps) one of the same heading graphics (firering.gif or henge.gif).  After the splash page, you can do whatever works best for you and for your material.  One course site that did not maintain this kind of conformity—and thus seemed a hodgepodge—is viewable at http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/readings.html.
• All web-projects should be turned in on a 3.5" disk, ready for publication to the Web. Grades will be reduced in accordance with the amount of tinkering I have to do. I will plan to launch them on my own web account with new links from our course webpages.  (You may, of course, publish them on your own website as well.)