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Blogger Assignment

• You will need to create a weblog on your account at http://www.sju.edu/~yourID/blogger.html using blogger.com. You may use a basic template that is provided, though if you decide to jazz it up that is OK. You will want to FTP it to the polaris server. You can use a custom layout or use a default. You can always change it by editing the template.

• To get you started with things to write on.
  • Summarize two articles from the New Architect or Web Techniques I'm giving to you.

  • Describe the idea or technology behind the article.

  • Explain what sort of applications this would be appropriate or a concern for. Imagine that you were a software engineer for a website and needed to evaluate whether this article applied to you.

  Next, read this article Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

  • For five of the ten mistakes, find a different website that violates it.

  • Link to this website or webpage and describe how it violates the mistake and what might be done to fix it. Business sites are notoriously bad.

  • Find a different website that violates each of the ten mistakes.

  • Link to this website or webpage and describe how it violates the mistake.

  Find a technology-related weblog not listed above. Link to it and summarize what the author works on and what sort of issues interest them.

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