Final Project

In the last several homework assignments you have created pages that permit users to add, modify, and delete text items from a replica of the TTAC home page on a remote server.  These pages you have created permit a variety of users to make changes in this web page directly without these users going through a webmaster and without the users employing FTP programs, HTML editors, etc -- all they need is a browser and internet access.  I think it will be a useful addition to your portfolio to turn what is now a collection of homework assignments into a unified project.  Here is what you need to do:

1) Your index page should still link to all your work but will now include a link to the beginning page (or home page) for your project.  If you create any new .asp files for the project, make sure to provide a link to the .txt version of them from the index page so I can see the code.

2) The home page for the project will likely provide links to the various functions (display web page, add items, modify items, delete items) the user could perform.  Further aspects of the navigational structure are up to you.

3) The pages should provide whatever instructions you feel are appropriate to the user.  The audience for these instructions is the user, not the instructor.

4) You may want to add some comments to your code to remind yourself of what a certain line of code does or why you are doing something if it wouldn't be obvious to you a month from now.

5) If you want to do this for a different web page that the TTAC home page, you will likely get some extra credit for doing so.  However, unless you particularly want to create something different, or tackle some challenge that this would entail, I would recommend staying with the TTAC site rather than run into what may be a variety of issues if you go to something new at this point.

I see this primarily as adding an appropriate navigational structure, instructions to the user, and comments to yourself.  Getting the pieces to work was the hard part -- this part should be relatively easy.

Due: Friday, November 1.

Revised: October 18. 2002. Comments to William Pegram, wpegram@erols.com