COSC2453 SP2, 2011 Assignment 1 Specifications % contribution: 5 Deadline: 15th June 2011 (11:59 PM) Wednesday Submit via:

Weblearn To be attempted: Individually Overview: Aim of the assignment (you will build on this one in second and third assignments) is to develop an e-Commerce (online selling) website. You can choose a product or a service of your choice. The general features of the website is to include the following pages Home Page assignment 1

And the following pages need to be added to the website for the second and third assignments only - so you need not worry about them at this stage: Registration page for a new user assignment 2 Product pages assignment 2 Privacy Policy page assignment 2 Site map assignment 2

Logged in users shopping cart pages assignment 3 o Product search pages o Order and order-processing pages o Confirmation pages and, Admin Pages assignment 3

The first assignment includes writing of the home page in XHTML 1.0 (please note that the extension of your home page will still be .html- XHTML is a special way of writing HTML code), authored via CSS. As far as the website creation is concerned, you SHOULD NOT use any code generator as Dreamweaver, Visual Studio etc you are advised to use Eclipse PHP IDE.

Home Page: Home page serves two purposes: An information page for the new users An entry-point for the registered users The home page layout serves as the basic framework from which all other pages can be browsed. At this stage the links on the home page point to orphan links. These orphan links will be real pages later on (to be implemented for second and third assignments). You can divide the home page into four main functional units: 1. Navigation bar on the left: consisting of links to other basic pages such asregistration page, product pages and sitemap. These pages DO NOT exist at this page as such the links point to the pages that will exist in the future. 2. Main content area- Website description and or any functionality. Do not use lorem ipsum. 3. Header- Displays logo of your online organisation or any other relevant information. 4. Footer- copyright information and a link to privacy policy page (just an orphan link). DO NOT use SSI or PHP to code this page- I want you to appreciate the use of SSI and PHP for assignments 2 and 3 purposes. Tasks: (2 marks) Create an XHTML 1.0 Strict valid Home Page (1 mark) Create an external stylesheet template.css that controls the presentation of this page. (1 mark) Validate the Home page at http://validator.w3.org/ (1 mark) Validate the CSS at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

What to submit? Zip all the files- home page, images, css file and submit the zipped archive. How to submit? Upload the zipped archive via Weblearn. Weblearn is a link above the Blackboard link. Late submission and extension cases: 10% of marks will be deducted for each late day (~ which translates to a penalty of 6 marks per day) and you will receive zero after 5 days. Email your lecturer for extension (shekhar.kalra@rmit.edu.au). General Notes: Post doubts in Assignment 1 folder Email instructor for any extension-related issues. Do NOT plagiarize. Acknowledge every online source that you have used in README file. 2