CGA 212 Course Projects

Project Two– Navigation Elements

Due November 15th, 2011

100 Points

During this semester, you will be creating and building a web site with original graphics and web pages. You need to create the following individual elements that will build to a web site.

Navigation Elements are graphical objects or buttons that allow the user to move from page to page or section to section within a web site. The button can have interactivity such rollover effects.

Note that the majority of the navigation systems appear in a horizontal or vertical format and are consistent from page to page with regards to placement and size.

Examples of Great Navigation Systems:

 

 

Examples:

Poor Example:bad

Good Example:

nameplate

 

 

Requirements:

  • Create and submit paper and pencil designs - at least three

  • Define what your primary navigation elements are for your web site

  • Select one design and develop the navigation system

  • Create Graphical Objects for the navigation system

  • Create rollover states - Normal, Over and Down - of each button

  • Submit the PhotoShop/Fireworks files and Gif or JPEG files to the professor.

  • You will present your final design to the class.

Submission Requirements:

  • Print out Three Color Copies - One for you to keep, one for Professor Mary and One for the Cinder Block Gallery

  • You will submit two electronic files to the Elearning.gccnj.edu web site. The files will be the following formats:

    • Original PSD (PhotoShop Document)

    • HTML Files

    • A JPEG File (for display on the web page

    • You may want to create a ZIP or Stuffit file of all the items from the Root Folder

On Art Board, you will mount you project for presentation to the class.

Project Two Grading Rubric

Due: November 8th