Assignment #2: Build Your First Website

Overview

This assignment will teach you how to clone items from a repository, use a text editor, make changes in the editor, save them, commit changes to your repository, sync it, then publish it online. At the end of the assignment, you'll have a page hosted on Github Pages.

Due date

This is due by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2015.

Points possible

25

You must include: 

• your name and contact information (email address is enough, but feel free to add social media) 
• a joke. Yes, a joke. Keep it clean. 
• an image of yourself that is a link to your email address 
• a title for your page (must not be an untitled document) 
• must include navigation in an unordered list (this could be something like links to the blog, your assignments, journalism sites, etc.) 
• links to two other pages — one within your site and one outside your site (the other page within your site can be blank)
• must be in XHTML Transitional (hint, use the template provided)
• your code must validate

Grading:

• All required content there (10 points)
• Coded correctly — links work, using appropriate tags, using XHTML, has page title (10 points)
• Code validates (5 points)

Total: 25 points

Note: Assignments not turned in by their due date drop a letter grade for each day late.

Send your link from Github Pages to Elizabeth and Rob via DM on Slack.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. 👍

tl;dr:

Build a website, post a picture of yourself on it, push it to GH-Pages, send us a link. Worth 25 points, 2.5 percent of your semester grade.