I start grading at 100% and take points off based on the criteria below
A minimum of 10% is awarded if the project is completed on time, even if errors take you below that level
I must be able to see your work using the Assignment & Project Viewer
Content
-90%: inappropriate amount of content
-90%: using someone else's content
Source Code Issues
-25%: listing Kirk in the description meta tag
-25%: listing Kirk in the author meta tag
-25%: listing Kirk in the title meta tag
-25%: listing Hopkins in the source code
Links
-20%: broken links
-20%: links to documents (htm, php, or css) that don't exist
-10%: "Click Here" or "Click On" (etc.), this isn't the 90's anymore
-10%: email addresses
always create a mailto link when displaying an email address - like this: hopkinks@miamioh.edu
note that if the user does not have a mail application (like Apple's "Mail" or Outlook), the link will not function as you hope it will; this has become a problem due to increased gmail use
-10%: links that open improperly
if the link takes the user away from your site or menu system you need to use a target="_blank" to open the link in a new tab/window (governed by the user's browser)
-05%: text that should be linked that isn't
references to a specific Facebook page, LinkedIn page, etc. should be linked with a target="_blank" to open the link in a new tab/window (governed by the user's browser)
-05%: having underlined style links with spaces at the beginning or end of the link (underlining spaces looks silly)
-05%: missing external stylesheet
Images, Audio, and Video
-20%: broken images (common problems)
using something like file://Users/KirkHopkins/Desktop/FabulousPicture.jpg won't work
using something like https://www.netdisk.miamioh.edu/apps/display_file.php ?path=windows%3A%2FMyFiles%2FH%hopkinks%2FPUBLIC.WWW%2FIMS222%2Fimages%2F YouProbablyCantSeeThis.jpg&nocache=0123456789 won't work for anyone but me if I'm logged in
using something like /MyFiles/H/hopkinks/PUBLIC.WWW/IMS222/images/AnotherFabulousPicture.jpg probably won't work either
-20%: stretched or distorted photos
-20%: images that are huge and can take a while for the page to load, images should be smaller than 1024px wide and less than .5MB
recommend using jpg's for photos
recommend using gif's or png's for "icon-type" images with only a few colors
-20%: using someone else's image
don't use their's, use your own
this includes glyphicons
don't use "free" ones either, make your own with the exception of facebook, linked in, and twitter type icons
-20%: images with spaces or apostrophe's in the name
-10%: animated GIF's
-10%: automatically playing audio/video on page load
-10%: images without an "alt" tag
-10%: videos without closed-captions
-10%: low quality images
-10%: poorly used background images
be careful, it's easy to mess up a page with them
Aesthetics and Accessibility
-20%: low contrast/difficult to read (you can use WAVE accessibility checker to ensure your pages meet accessibility standards)
-20%: distracting background/difficult to read (typically background too bright or too harsh)
-20%: marquee (sliding text or pictures) - don't use it
-20%: blink - don't use it
-20%: seizure causing image/background changes - don't do it
-20%: designs and/or images that don't scale (i.e. not responsive)
-20%: designs that change on the website (i.e. different from one page to another)
-10%: designs that are too busy
-10%: illegible text (usually on a background that makes it difficult to read)
-10%: using someone elses graphics, color schemes, and styles (with little to no changes)
-00%: have a peer/friend review your page on their computer and with multiple devices and browsers, how does it look to them?
More Technical
-10%: problems with tags/elements (may be reduced to -05% depending on the severity of the issue)
-10%: bad grammar/spelling/punctuation
-20%: HTML font tags - use CSS instead
-20%: flash (doesn't work on iOS, thankfully)
-20%: pop-ups - they are annoying and often blocked by the browser
-20%: underlining - don't use underlines unless it is part of a link
-20%: pdf's
My disdain for the use of pdf's has grown to the point that I no longer allow them to be used on a website
saving a resume or other text as a pdf and including it on a web page does NOT count as a web page, build the page as HTML
-20%: using images in place of a web page
saving a resume or other text as an image and including it on a web page does NOT count as a web page, build the page as HTML
-20%: inconsistency
be consistent with your whole web site (menu system, color scheme and styling)
-20%: poor communication
the user doesn't have you there to explain things, your pages need to explain things on their own
-20%: poorly named
title
web page
external stylesheet
URLs (web addresses) should not have spaces, apostrophe's or other special characters in them, use CamelCaseInsteadWithOnlyLettersAndNumbers
your web page name should match the content so you wouldn't have a page with generic names like this.htm, that.htm, or the_other.htm
-10%: messy mark-up/code
your HTML and CSS should follow a pattern with indenting and be the same throughout your site; random spaces and tags with typo's also drive me crazy
-10%: unnecessary HTML and CSS
including things that are not used just makes your site more difficult to maintain
-10%: leaving in the brown M&M's
using things like Kirk's or kirks something in your code, review all code that you're using and make your own
-10%: bad semantics
don't go from h1 to h2 without an h1 between them
Recommendations
View your pages with multiple browsers and at different sizes
Have a peer/friend look at it to see what they think, your pages need to function properly everywhere for everyone
