Requirements for HTML Reports

When conceptualizing and executing your reports, you may want to consult the lecture on HTML Design.

Functional Requirements

• contains appropriate and user-friendly navigational tools
• return links take you back to appropriate places (e.g., the list you just left)
• works with Netscape 2.0
• contains document (URL, last modified) and contact information
• graphic elements help unify document

Aesthetic Requirements

• aesthetically pleasing
• attractive use of color (consider the psychology of color)
• consistent layout
• color and layout used to stress important information
• appropriate text/image ratio

Miscellaneous

• make it substantial (equivalent of 10-15 pages of traditional report)
• write directly and in the active voice where possible
• chunk, queue, and filter information (see Markel, p. 336).
• spellcehck (yes--I did that on purpose!)

Turn in by 5 p.m. on May 29

• an evaluation of group members (form handed out in class)
• a one-page single-spaced memo to me defining your audience and purpose and the techniques used to reach that audience and satisfy that purpose
• a final storyboard labelled with file names to the memo. Use a graphics program or draw the storyboard very neatly.

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