Gimme some ideas please...

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Hey all!

I am trying to decide on a final year project at, involving lots of HTML and CSS. Perhaps even HTML5, CSS3 ?

Now I know the languages I want to use, however struggling for ideas on the website itself. Anyone out there got some ideas to shout out ? get me thinking ?

Would appreciate it, I am actually changing from a project involving lots of PHP, which I dont have much of a clue about! and have slowly come to the realisation of this! So thought get back to what I know a little of and build on it! HTML and CSS!

Cheers!
 
Agreed, final year with a project involving only CSS/HTML = o.O. Unless it's a design course.

Work around your content. Figure out a topic then figure out what features the websites needs for that topic. IE stats box, most recent box, login features, and so on.
 
FAIL for not telling us which course you're doing! If it's English Lit, for example, I wouldn't recommend a project involving HTML at all...! ;)

If it's Computer Science/Programmng/Software Engineering, you certainly should be producing something more complex than just a website design. You do know that PHP is a server side scripting language, and isn't in any way comparable to basic HTML/CSS, right...? If you're specifically studying Web or Web Graphic Design, or something similar, then your idea sounds fine, but I would strongly recommend going for a complex design so that you can show off client side scripting skills (say, javascript) as well as HTML and CSS - which are absolutely the minimum you'd have to know.
 
Sorry guys, should have been more descriptive :P

My degree is BSc Digital Media, so lots of web design, video, animation, flash games, but its more geared towards web development.

So yeah, html and css. I originally wanted to do a project involving lots of php, however I think I picked something way too advanced and only just found that out after speaking to my project supervisor, and we about 5 weeks into the semester already :O I was going to try and code a php stock checker/price comparison thing and then use lots of html and css for design etc.

Anyways, yes I am trying to think of a topic now.

Edit: Actually just had a quick thought, my moms business has a website which I could make something new for. I am thinking of a theme for the wp ecommerce plugin for wordpress. A whole new design from scratch! it does involve a little php too, but plenty css, xhtml. My mother would technically be my client, and its for something that could well be implemented and go live. Now I think it could be challenging enough for my final project, as I only have basic html and css knowledge. I would have to speak to my supervisor though.
 
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Build a CSS Zen beauty...

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Do use CSS3/HTML5. I suggest you ask about browser compatibility, and how it's graded. While they may very well say drop IE6, they might say build for it as well. ALSO.. whether you will be down graded for things like IE hacks, or less functionality in IE6. IE what might be a gradient in FF might be a single color in IE8 or below.

Things like that you need to ask. It could be relevant to the site you build, target audience. For instance a zen beauty site wouldn't need much functionality for IE6 because it's targeted to web designers. Though i'm fairly confident they all work in IE6 -_-

I always lol for this one... http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=202/202.css
 
Check with your supervisor that its complex enough.

Don't just do something simple because it's easy, they expect a lot of you from your final year project. :)
 
TALK TO YOUR SUPERVISOR. PLEASE. For a final year project your should be doing a substantial piece of original work, not a webpage.

If you don't know how to program, that is fine, but why on earth try to make a webpage as a final year undergrad project??
 
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If you don't know how to program, that is fine, but why on earth try to make a webpage as a final year undergrad project??
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Because he's doing a Digital Media degree, for which a well designed, usable and accessible website with consideration for browser capability, SEO, etc. might be a very suitable final year project, demonstrating understanding and practical application of skills learned? Not every final year project has the same types of restrictions.
 
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Do you need some sort of research angle as well? For our final year project (which i start after Christmas) I need to have some reason for the build. Just building a website won't cut it if there is no research, so don't think about what it will actually do but how it will do it. Although this maybe completely different at your university, which would surprise me.

If I was doing a similar course I would be tempted to look into HTML5/JS/CSS3 mobile apps compared building native apps and build a web app to show mobile web apps in all its glory (or lack of). You could look into projected development time and average cost of development using those methods along with consumer opinion, uptake and profitability of each approach. I am sure that it would tick the originality box compared to doing something like website usability, which has been done to death for the last decade!

Although if you can't code then gambling your degree on the chance that you may pick it up while going along seems like a stupid idea, will they allow you to do a pure research project with no build?
 
For my dissertation I rewrote our Student Union website, with full CMS and e-commerce integration. Got a 2.1, my degree was in Software Engineering though, not sure if the project would be Enough work, ask your lecturers.
 
I'd like to see a final project website one day. Code one, not design. Just so I can see the standard. It's sort of a goal.
 
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