If the first assignment was to sell yourself, the final assignment is to sell anything other than yourself. Create a professional looking website that sells something. It can be a product such as jewelry, a service such as a restaurant, or something abstract such as an opinion or issue. Please use existing work from projects you have completed in other classes. That way you have well thought out content.

1. There is a lot of leeway on this assignment. Please use it. Don’t be literal. Selling something allows you can find other websites selling the same thing. You will need to follow the Designing for the Web (7 steps) article and research what you are selling.
2. The criteria is that it look professional.
3. Students do their most creative work when they’re motivated by the work itself. Choose a final project that will motivate you to do your best work.
4. The final project should persuade me (to give you a good grade).
5. Focus on the User’s eXperience and site organization
6. General Formal Proficiency
7. Typographic Proficiency
8. Creative Use of technology
9. Quality of documentation
10. Don’t be shy. Be bold! Be playful! Be emotional! Whatever it takes to grab your audience’s attention. Make them want to come along.
11. I am here to help you realize your final.
    If you have questions, ask me.
12. I am always surprised by the number of students who do not ask me when they are having problems. This happens a lot. The reason, I think, is that the answers can be found in both in the book and on this website. Students think they can figure it out on their own. The problem here is that there is so much information that it’s not always easy to connect up with what you need at that moment. So you get stuck and instead of overcoming your limitations you problem solve within them, which is not the best approach.

    Do not hesitate. Ask me if you have questions. I am here to help!

13. You can also book time at the Learning Center. How to make an appointment. and schedule an appointment.. They can help you understand and overcome the problems you are facing, help you code your final project, and keep you organized and working.
14. The biggest obstacles is procrastination. It will catch up with you. I see it happen every semester. Some of you will have more important things to do and postpone working on the final till the end. The result is always an insufficiently developed final. Post your progress each week so I can follow your work.
15. Come up with a proposal for your final project and create a new work-sheet. Specify what you are going to sell and how you are going to sell it, research how you plan to be successful in selling it, and develop a strategy based on the target audience. This is due next week!
16. You will have the rest of the semester to finish the project. Next week we focus on making your portfolio responsive so that it works in all media. At the same time, you need to research and come up with the topic for your final and be prepared to defend it in class.
17. Homework from here on out is divided into two parts. One part concerns the unit and the other part concerns the final project.

Your final site needs to be close to finished by week 14 for peer review. Do not procrastinate. Make your final a project you can be proud of.