Project Report
CSIS 137 - Summer 1999
Purpose: My project idea is a site where my English language students can practice the
grammar they had learned in the textbook, Communicate What You Mean.
Description: The structure of this project is a frameset containing a title frame, a table of contents frame and the main
activity frame. It originally contained only the TOC and Activities frames, but I
found that I was repeating the book title, Communicate What You Mean, so often
that it made better sense to make a nested frameset with the title frame a constant.
- The top frame is not resizable and has no scroll bar since it is a permanent fixture containing the book title.
- The Table of Contents frame is srollable and resizable. Each link in the TOC frame opens
into the Activities frame except the link to the CSIS 137 homepage, which opens into
the parent window.
- In the Activities frame, any local links open into the activities
frame, and all outside links open into a new window. This was done so that
outside sites wouldn't become part of my frameset--an important technique for
aesthetic and copyright considerations.
Hardware & Software: I used BBEdit on my PowerMac G3 to create the project. I used HTML coding to
create the pages and tested them on Netscape 4.5 on a Macintosh. I believe that it will look okay on a PC and in Internet Explorer, but I don't have the resources to test it at this time.
The files used in my course project are:
| The frames page:
| "frames.html"
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| The HTML for the book title frame:
| "banner.html"
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| The HTML for the left-side frame:
| "toc.html"
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| The HTML for the right-side frames:
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| "title.html" |
- graphic and short description of site |
| "general.html" |
- basic information for students to understand how to use the site
| | "help.html" |
- FAQ for some of the typical questions students need answered |
| "one.html" |
- Lesson One Review activity |
| "two.html" |
- Lesson Two Review activity |
| "three.html" |
- link to Lesson Three Review activity (Question of the Day) |
| "hiddenframe.html" |
- frameset for Lesson Three Review activity |
| "QoftheDay.html" |
- banner for the hidden frame frameset |
| "question.html" |
- question which appears in the bottom-most row of the hidden frame frameset |
| "answer.html" |
- answer for the question (only viewable when user drags the frame border down |
| "form.html" |
- evaluation form for students to give me feedback on the activities |
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That's about it! Take a look at the project.
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