Week 1: CIS-363B Web Interface Design - Course Project


Course Project - Week 1

         This session at DeVry University asks its students to create a website that we will build using HTML and CSS throughout the course. The website must be five to seven pages in length and we will be judged on our design, cohesiveness and accessibility. 
        
          This week we will start by completing a website proposal containing the following elements: website title, developer, rationale/focus of the site, outline of main elements, content, target audience, design considerations and limiting factors. 

         Thus far, I have decided to use this website to develop an interest of mine that I have little time to explore: fashion. But not that outrageous couture, Parisian-high fashion. I want to focus on fashion that is worn by the everyday working woman. I feel that most women need a common-sense-approach online outlet to discuss how to balance fashion with professionalism. Working women want to wear clothes that are comfortable, professional and pieces that make them feel confident. So I will use this opportunity to create a women's fashion e-zine to develop this personal interest while harnessing the tools of HTML and CSS.
         So for my proposal, I have decided to title it, "Fashion Sense and Sensibility" as you can see from my below screenshot. While completing the course assigned reading I am taking notes of some of the required HTML syntax. That way I can keep a growing list of elements that I may want to add to my website. For example, all webpages start with the DOCTYPE declaration that looks like this: <!DOCTYPE html> (Ruvalcaba, Z., Boehm, A., 2011). This will be one of the many elements that I will need to keep on my webpages as I develop them. 

 More to come.... stay tuned. 

 Figure A. 



Citations
Ruvalcaba, Z., Boehm, A. (2011). Murach's HTML5 and CSS3. [Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781890774905/


   
         





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