Final Project

This is our finals week - no class, but your final Drupal-based website project is due by July 30th.

This will be a custom Drupal-based website you develop on your own computer.  This is a skeleton website using Drupal for a real or fictional organization such as a school or business or non-profit

Requirements

• Have a unique name for your site, and logo image.
• Have some content entered in your site, such as stories, pages, or blog posts.
• Have one or more examples of blocks on your site.
• Have a navigation bar on your site (primary or secondary links).
• Some customization of the visual theme, or look of your site, such as changing colors, adding background images, or moving stuff around in the CSS or templates of your theme.

You don't have to have a complete, finished website, but at the very least a skeleton site that lays out the basic organization of your site (with the navigation bar), and also has at least some content entered.

Turning in Your Project

I can't see your site since it is running only on your local computer, so instead you need to either A) create a video tour of your site, or B) take one or more snapshot pictures of your site.  More details below:

Option A: Video Tour

You can do this using the free Screencast-o-matic or Jing tools.  Jing is limited to 5 minutes per video, Screencast-o-matic has a 15 minute limit.  You need a microphone if you want to narrate the tour.

See below for how to get the video to me.

Option B: Snapshot Picture(s) of Your Drupal Site

An easier option is to just take a snapshot picture of the front page (and/or other pages) of your drupal site.  A single snapshot of the front page of your drupal site should be sufficient to show me the requirements above, including that you added content to your site, you changed the name and logo, you added a block and navigation bar, and you customized the visual look and theme of your site.

In Windows, you can click on your firefox window to make sure it is in the foreground, and then hold down Control-Alt-Print Screen to take a snapshot.  It is copied to your clipboard.  Then you can paste that into an image editing program like Paint (under start menu->accessories->paint) or Photoshop or Gimp or whatever.  Save the file (it should save as a JPG in Paint) and email it to me or upload it to your 'personal files' area on this site.  If you just hold down Alt-Print Screen it will grab a picture of the whole screen instead of just the top most window.

On the Mac you can similarly hold down Command-Shift-4 and select an area to take a picture of, and it will automatically save the file to the desktop, or hold down Command-Shift-3 to take a picture of the whole screen.  Or you can use the Grab or Preview applications to take snapshots.  See this guide to taking screenshots in Mac OS X for more info.

Sending Your Video or Picture(s) to Me

If you created a very large video file that is too large to upload to your 'personal files' area, you can email it to me using USU's big file transfer service: http://bft.usu.edu/

Otherwise just email your video or pictures to me directly: doug.holton@usu.edu

or upload it to your 'personal files' area.

DEADLINE

Remember the deadline is July 30th, and no late assignments can be accepted as this is the very end of the semester and grades are due.