summary	time	deliverables
Re-design an animal rescue website by applying everything learned this term.	10 hour	3 HTML files, 4 CSS files, images

Animal rescue website

Overview

• Fork this repository.
• Completely re-design an animal rescue website that you find online that’s not currently designed very well.
  Here are some examples of rescues whose websites could use an update:
  • Birch Haven
  • Loyal Rescue
  • Freedom Dog Rescue
  • BARK Ottawa
  • Adirondack Save Stray
• Create a 3-page website: Home, List of Available Rescues & Adopt a Rescue
• It should have real text content—that you have written yourself.
• It should be completely designed, with real images, real colours—and it should look amazing.
• Don’t steal images—use properly licensed images. If the image requires that you credit the author use a humans.txt file. (See an example humans.txt file).
• Don’t start writing code without first doing everything as expected in your IxD class: target audience analysis, website goals, competitive analysis, sitemap, wireframes, etc.
• The website should obviously be fully responsive: working on screensizes from 320px all the way to ~2500px.
• Run it through Markbot and make sure it passes all the checks.

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Details

We are only concentrating on making these 3 pages—but the navigation should absolutely suggest the rest of the pages exist on the website.

index.html — Homepage

The homepage of the rescue website should accomplish the goals for the target audience you’ve researched when doing your UX.

• Consider the goals of the website.
• Consider the responsiveness.
• Consider your performance budget.
• Consider accessibility concerns.

rescues.html — List of Available Rescues

The Rescues page is the page that lists all the available animals, giving details about each animal and photos of what they look like.

• You don’t need to go overboard listing an excessive number of animals, just show ~5 examples, giving the idea of what the completed page would look like.
• Consider the responsiveness.
• Consider your performance budget.
• Consider accessibility concerns.

adopt.html — Adopt a Rescue

The Adopt page is the huge form that users fill out to adopt a rescue animal. Look at some examples like Loyal Rescue.

• You don’t have to do every single form field, but it should be a significant enough amount to represent what the form would look like upon completion.
• Consider the responsiveness.
• Consider your performance budget.
• Consider accessibility concerns.

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Deliverables

There are a few different things that will be checked throughout the process:

1. Animal rescue website UX
   — Due week 13
   (checked for completion, graded with final website)
2. Animal rescue website check-in
   — Due week 14
   (checked for completion)
3. Request for grade
   — Due week 15
4. Final animal rescue website redesign
   — Due week 15

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Teacher’s expectations

This website is to prove that you—by yourself—can do everything we covered in class. Look back over all the assignments from the term, determine what kernel of knowledge they were trying to teach you, and see if you can implement it in this website.

There should be a significant example of everything we’ve learned this term in this website. Leave the impression that you’ve confident with what we’ve learned and can apply everything.

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Markbot’s expectations

Markbot has a bunch of expectations on the code of your website. But luckily for you no screenshot checking.

General expectations

• Proper naming conventions are followed
• Minimum 10 commits that follow best practices

All HTML files

Name the HTML files: index.html, rescues.html & adopt.html

• header, header nav, header nav li, header nav a, main, section or article
• modules.css, grid.css, type.css, main.css And many of the expected classes: .grid, .unit, .xs-, .s-, .m-, .l-, .pad-, .push, .gutter, .list-group, font size classes Remember to choose only the modules that are necessary
• A color or background-color hover state on the navigation
• A unique <title> & <h1> for everything HTML page
• Proper focus states for navigation and main content links
• Fits within the standard performance budget
• Passes all accessibility checks including skip links and ARIA landmark roles
• Google Fonts are optional—you may decided they have too much of a performance impact.

CSS files

• CSS requirements are really open—just make sure the CSS is valid & indented properly.

Images

• All images should be smushed, with a maximum file size of 250kB and maximum dimensions of 2500px
• Proper favicons, favicon.ico & favicon-196.png

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Browser & accessibility testing

In class, week 15, we will be doing lots of peer testing—most of the website needs to be complete by then.

Each person will be assigned a tool and will be required to test everybody’s websites.

• Accessibility testing
• Browser testing

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Marking rubric

Below is the rubric of expectations for this project. You will be assigned a letter grade based on your standing within the rubric.

	0 points	1 points	2 points	3 points
Knowledge	Poor understanding of material	Partial understanding of material	Demonstrates full understanding of material	Demonstrates excellent understanding of material
Professionalism	Poorly done, rushed, incomplete	A good start but needs much more effort & time	Well done, but could use more refinement	I would steal this and use it myself
UX	Incomplete or missing	Rushed & too generic	Specific but obviously lacking research	Specific and appropriate, with good details
Wireframes	Incomplete or missing	Missing important pieces or poorly executed	Complete but not detailed enough	Complete, detailed, and a good representation to code from
Responsiveness	Not responsive	Works on some screens	Responsive but with lots of awkwardness	Looks great on all screen sizes
Semantics	Very little HTML	Basic HTML tags chosen	Good variety and appropriate HTML tags chosen	Excellent demonstration of HTML tags and correct use
Design	Very little design	Basic design implemented	Cohesive design implementation	Excellent design implementation
Modularity	Modular CSS not used	Some basic modular CSS used	Lots of modular CSS	Modular CSS used to its full potential
Accessibility	Not accessibile	Some accessibility but doesn’t work well with certain situations	Some minor accessibility problems	Works really well under all the standard accessibility tests
Performance	Doesn’t come close to passing the performance budget requirements	One or two performance budget requirements are not met	Just passes the performance budget requirements	Surpasses the performance budget requirements
Forms	No form	Non-functioning form	Functional but ugly form	Good looking and functional form
Home page	Missing or incomplete	Started but severely lacking	Complete but with poor text or bad responsiveness—not quite perfect	Complete, amazing content, responsive, designed well—amazing
Rescues page	Missing or incomplete	Started but severely lacking	Complete but with poor text or bad responsiveness—not quite perfect	Complete, amazing content, responsive, logical—fantastic
Adopt page	Missing or incomplete	Started but severely lacking	Complete but with poor text or bad responsiveness—not quite perfect	Complete, amazing content, responsive, good use of forms—super
Code quality	Missing or incomplete	Poorly done, rushed, no semantics, bad accessibility	Decent: semantics, indentation & accessibility	Perfect: semantics, indentation & accessibility
Git & commits	Bad commit messages	Decent messages	Good messages	Excellent and descriptive commit messages
Markbot	Not handed in with Markbot	—	—	Handed in with Markbot

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Hand in

Drop this folder into your Markbot application. Make sure to fix all the errors. And submit for grades using Markbot.

When you submit to Progressinator, you’ll see a grey checkmark that shows the project was handed in. You’ll still have to write a Request for Grade and the teacher will still be grading it personally.