semester project 1, 2023 Brief An interactive science museum called the Community Science Museum is opening in your town/city. Its core target audience is primary and middle school children (ages 7-15) and families with young children. The museum wants an informative, appealing website to attract middle school pupils and their parents. The site should appeal to youngsters without pandering; it should take for granted that the audience is curious and intelligent. The website should be informative and engaging, encouraging viewers to visit the museum. The website should be responsive and easy to use on various devices.

You have been provided media assets as text and images (see link under Resources). It is for you to decide how these will be used in terms of presentation, hierarchy, and design.

Project Description Based on the first-semester curriculum, the semester project should reflect the student’s creative and technical knowledge and skills. This includes design principles, project management, communication technology, and development with HTML/CSS.

Target Audience & Design: The target audience should be carefully considered, and the proposed design should reflect this. A website prototype should be made using your chosen software (Adobe XD, Figma etc.)

Final Product: A URL and zip file with the final website should be submitted. The site should be tested on a variety of devices before final delivery. The student is responsible for setting up their web host or using Netlify to deploy the site. GitHub repositories should be set to private.

Report: Submit a report discussing the design and technical aspects of the project, as well as how guidelines for WCAG, SEO and content management were handled. A template for this report is provided under ‘Resources’.

The duration of the Semester Project is four weeks (full-time) and eight weeks (part-time).

Requirements The site must have a design that appeals to the target audience. The site must have at least 4-6 pages. Compositional principles, typography, and colour schemes must be considered. Your HTML should be semantic and neatly indented. The site should use external CSS style sheets which follow the DRY principle. The site should download quickly and not be overly “heavy”. Images should be at most 200kb. The site should consider WCAG principles, especially regarding hierarchy, navigation, and colour usage. The site should be responsive, attractive, and easy to use on various devices. The site should show consideration for content strategy and SEO (consider your use of meta tags and alt text). The GitHub repo for the project should be set to private. You do not need to submit this with your project.

Submission A link to the live version of the site must be submitted as ‘online text.’ A link to the site’s prototype must be submitted as ‘online text.’ A zip file of the whole project should be delivered. A report must be included with the project delivery. Ensure the report is a PDF and follows the correct naming conventions. Please use the report template provided here.