lecture 6: week 8 course work

Do I have to write my course work on the same subject as I laid out in week 4?

Yes. I may have suggested finding a clearer focus in the week 4 feedback, or otherwise adjusting your choice slightly, but you cannot pick a completely different subject at this stage.

What else from week 4 must I include?

You are expected to include the sample text which formed a part of the week 4 submission, although if you want to slightly change the wording, that's fine: it does not have to be verbatim.

The links you suggested in week 4 and the style of the week 4 site do not have to appear in the same form in week 8 - although they can if you want them to (and if the feedback did not suggest you modified them).

Is there anything else in the feedback I should take account of?

Take account of as much of it as possible. Marks are allocated as to how well you respond to it. Bear in mind that any comments made were not made for the sake of it!

It may help to have a look at the feedback you received, if you have it to hand. If I commented about any of the following, you should consider it important:

• Did I suggest you tried to justify your site more? I would have done so had you picked a subject which was unoriginal or already very well catered for on the WWW. Try making your final site more personal, more focussed on a particular aspect of the general subject, or more original in presentation.
• Were the links you suggested in week 4 distinct enough? A common problem of low-quality web sites is that the division of the site into pages, or "chunks", has not been thought through. Have you got a few very distinct chunks? Have you thought through the order in which visitors, ideally, should read them, and how you will present your links on screen to make this order visible?
• You were not marked on the style of your week 4 site but I may still have commented on it, whether to praise or criticise it. Fonts, colours and text size are all important here, so if I gave you specific advice it would be a good idea to follow it.
• If I drew attention to any technical errors (unclosed tags, bad nesting, errors in the style sheet and so on) be very sure that you fix them as if they are repeated this will result in a loss of marks.

I do get asked what happens if the feedback on week 4 was all positive. How can you get marks for responding to feedback like this? But don't worry, that's been allowed for. You will not be penalised for having no negative feedback to respond to!

When and how do we get our marks?

Marks are published on your ACOM account pages - they will not be sent by e-mail. Your overall mark for the Web Design Core will hopefully be released in week 11 - the last teaching week. We can't absolutely guarantee this, but bear in mind that you can access your ACOM account from anywhere that has Internet access so could check your marks from home if you want.