There will be 4 or 5 business authoring projects. These projects will be submitted through the website http://www.matcmp.ncc.edu/~sherd/classdoc/cmp115/projects.php. Printouts are not a submission for such projects and will not be accepted.

Hand projects in on time. You will receive no credit (0 points) for late projects.

4 newspaper reports will be assigned. Reports must be typed on paper. They will discuss how topics in this class are reported in the newspapers. Your reports must be on the topic of the report assigned.

1. Computer Components in Newspapers
2. Websites in Newspapers
3. Internet Business in Newspapers
4. Graphs and Charts in Newspapers

1. Book Store Spreadsheet
2. Bids on Site for Book Store
3. Grades for Bids
4. Website for Book Store
5. Forms for Book Store

This project requires each student to build an excel work sheet with a price list for a book store you imagine. Every student must work by themselves on this project.

The price list must start with header information including the name of the book store, and the location and contact information. The name of the book store should contain the name of the student submitting the assignment as in (Aye Student’s Book Store). Extra credit for particularly nice formatting.

Items must be numbered (with sequential numbers). There should be columns for:

• the numbers
• the names of the items
• enticing descriptions of the items
• prices for the items
• You need a category: text books that include all the text books you have been assigned this semester. This category requires at least 5 text books (if you are not assigned 5 text books add ones from other semesters).
• You need a category for other books with at least 3 books.
• You need a miscellaneous category containing at least 5 other items that are available from your book store (cards, pens, sweaters).

You will submit the price list using your account on http://www.matcmp.ncc.edu/~sherd/classdoc/cmp115/projects.php.

You will submit proposals to generate a web site for three of the book stores on http://www.matcmp.ncc.edu/~sherd/classdoc/cmp115/projects.php. Every student must work by themselves on this project.

Your proposal will contain a description of at least 3 web pages linked together including:

• an introduction web page with a name and picture of the store and information on why to buy there
• a page with directions and contact information for the information
• a page with a price list

The proposals will be in plain text or word format.

A student can not propose for themselves.

A student can not propose for any student's project if they proposed for her.

No student can receive more than three proposals

Each student will receive copies of proposals for web sites for their book store using the web site: http://www.matcmp.ncc.edu/~sherd/classdoc/cmp115/projects.php. Every student must work by themselves on this project. They will grade these descriptions based on this:

• The clarity of the description (how well could you picture the site from the description). 30% Along with the grade each student must submit a paragraph explaining why they assigned the grade for clarity. Clarity is about:
  • Can you tell how many pages are there
  • Can you tell what fonts will be used on each page
  • Can you tell what will appear on each page where
  • Can you tell what colors will appear where on each page
  • Can you tell what order the information occurs on the page
• The quality of the site described (number of pages, quality of the pages). 30%. Along with the grade each student must submit a paragraph explaining why they assigned the grade for quality. Quality is about:
  • Will the web site fit with your concept of the store in your price list
  • Will the site be easy to use
  • Will the site be fun to look at
  • Will the site have enough information about the shoes

Each student will receive the average of the grades assigned by the other students.

Then the professor will read your grades and paragraphs. He will give you a grade from 40% based on whether your grade makes sense and whether you explained it well. If your explanation for the grades or the grades themselves do not reflect thought about the assignment you will receive less than 40%.

You will be assigned one of the web sites you described. Every student must work by themselves on this project. You then will build the web site. Your grade will depend on:

50%	Building the web pages that were described in your submitted description.
10%	Linking the web pages together
10%	Titles on each web page
20%	Backgrounds a pictures in the web pages
10%	Email contact page link

Extra credit: extra web pages, extra information in the web pages.

You will build forms in Excel for the store you built a web site for. Every student must work by themselves on this project.

1. There will be an order form that allows a user to enter how many of each type of shoes they want. It will automatically compute how much the user is charged for each type of shoe and how much the total charge is.
2. There will be an inventory form which will keep track of how many shoes of each type are in the store. The order form will not allow people to buy more shoes than are available.
3. There will also be a hiring form which a prospective employee will fill out with his education, previous employment, personal skills and answers to miscellaneous questions like have you every been in jail?

Each of these forms should be excel templates. You will add links allowing users to download each of these forms from your web site. These links should be well formatted and appear in logical places in your web site.