Final Project Rubric Criteria Exceeds Standards Meets Standards Developing Points Project Naming, Organization, and Submission Project named correctly, subdirectories are used to organize the files associated with the project, and project submitted per instructions. Project not named as requested, files not organized in subdirectories effectively, or project not submitted per instructions. 5 Site Hierarchy All required pages are located correctly according to hierarchical structure given. Some required pages are not located correctly according to hierarchical structure given. 5 Color Palate and Fonts Color scheme and font styles represent the conservative company scenario, are consistently applied, and not under or over used Color scheme and/or font styles do not represent the conservative company scenario and/or include too much or too little variation 10 Graphics Graphics are included and are appropriately and consistently formatted, sized and implemented. Branding is present and consistent across the site. Graphics are included, but are inappropriately and/or inconsistently formatted, sized and implemented. Branding is not consistently across site. 10 Navigation Functionality All navigational links work as expected. One or more navigational link is coded incorrectly. 10 Main Page CSS used extensively to professionally style site. Advanced understanding of various types of selector rules and more advanced CSS properties. Includes content, functionality, navigational components, branding and footer information requested; internal documentation included; titled appropriately. Files validate per HTML5 and CSS standards. CSS used extensively to professionally style the site. A clear understanding of best practices in the formation of rules is demonstrated. Includes requested content, functionality, navigational components, branding and footer information requested; internal documentation included; titled appropriately. Files validate per HTML5 and CSS standards. CSS is used to style the site, but student does not demonstrate full understanding of rule selection/formation and relies on only the more basic CSS properties. Includes most content, functionality, navigational components, branding and footer information requested; internal documentation not always present; not titled appropriately. 10 About Us Page & Subtopic Pages 20 Services Page 10 Contact Page & Subtopic Page 15 Accessibility All pages provide full use of accessibility features to accommodate all users. All pages include some accessibility features to accommodate all users. Some pages include some accessibility features to accommodate all users. 5 TOTAL Total Score: /100 7/14/2015 Let’s Do Some Railing - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/opinion/gail-collins-lets-do-some-railing.html?_r=0 1/4 http://nyti.ms/1HNyAFu The Opinion Pages | O P - E D C O L U M N I S T Let’s Do Some Railing MAY 28, 2015 Gail Collins ...

1. Final Project Rubric
Criteria
Exceeds Standards
Meets Standards
Developing
Points
Project Naming, Organization, and Submission
Project named correctly, subdirectories are used to organize the
files associated with the project, and project submitted per
instructions.
Project not named as requested, files not organized in
subdirectories effectively, or project not submitted per
instructions.
5
Site Hierarchy
All required pages are located correctly according to
hierarchical structure given.
Some required pages are not located correctly according to
hierarchical structure given.
5
Color Palate and Fonts
Color scheme and font styles represent the conservative
company scenario, are consistently applied, and not under or
over used
Color scheme and/or font styles do not represent the
conservative company scenario and/or include too much or too
little variation
10
Graphics

2. Graphics are included and are appropriately and consistently
formatted, sized and implemented. Branding is present and
consistent across the site.
Graphics are included, but are inappropriately and/or
inconsistently formatted, sized and implemented. Branding is
not consistently across site.
10
Navigation Functionality
All navigational links work as expected.
One or more navigational link is coded incorrectly.
10
Main Page
CSS used extensively to professionally style site. Advanced
understanding of various types of selector rules and more
advanced CSS properties.
Includes content, functionality, navigational components,
branding and footer information requested; internal
documentation included; titled appropriately.
Files validate per HTML5 and CSS standards.
CSS used extensively to professionally style the site. A clear
understanding of best practices in the formation of rules is
demonstrated.
Includes requested content, functionality, navigational
components, branding and footer information requested; internal
documentation included; titled appropriately.
Files validate per HTML5 and CSS standards.
CSS is used to style the site, but student does not demonstrate
full understanding of rule selection/formation and relies on only
the more basic CSS properties.
Includes most content, functionality, navigational components,
branding and footer information requested; internal

3. documentation not always present; not titled appropriately.
10
About Us Page & Subtopic Pages
20
Services Page
10
Contact Page & Subtopic Page
15
Accessibility
All pages provide full use of accessibility features to
accommodate all users.
All pages include some accessibility features to accommodate
all users.
Some pages include some accessibility features to accommodate
all users.
5
TOTAL
Total Score:
/100

4. 7/14/2015 Let’s Do Some Railing - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/opinion/gail-collins-lets-
do-some-railing.html?_r=0 1/4
http://nyti.ms/1HNyAFu
The Opinion Pages | O P - E D C O L U M N I S T
Let’s Do Some Railing
MAY 28, 2015
Gail Collins
Just before Congress slunk away for the three-day weekend —
which it was, of
course, planning to stretch into a week — senators from the
Northeast held a
press conference to denounce Republicans for underfunding
Amtrak
passenger rail service.
“Amtrak has some infrastructure that is so old it was built and
put into
service when Jesse James and Butch Cassidy were still alive and
robbing
trains,” said Senator Charles Schumer of New York.
“In Connecticut we have a bridge that was built when Grover
Cleveland
was president,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal of
Connecticut.
Now you have to admit, this is pretty compelling. Especially if

5. you merge
them together and envision Butch Cassidy and Grover Cleveland
robbing
commuters on the Acela Express.
The Northeast corridor from Boston to Washington is the
centerpiece of
the nation’s commuter rail system. It carries more people than
the airlines,
makes a profit, and takes an ungodly number of cars off
extremely crowded
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highways. However, it needs $21 billion of work on its bridges,
tunnels, tracks
and equipment.
We’ve all been thinking about it since the terrible derailment in
Philadelphia earlier this month. In a moment of stupendously
bad timing,
House Republicans chose the day after the accident to cut more
than $1 billion
from the $2.45 billion the Obama administration had requested
for Amtrak.

6. Speaker John Boehner said any attempt to link the two things
was
“stupid.” As only he can.
Let’s take a middle road, people, and assume that while the
Philadelphia
crash might not be directly related to any funding cut, it’s a
good reminder that
running packed trains through 19th century tunnels and bridges
is asking for
trouble.
Amtrak is a managerial mishmash, trapped under the thumb of
Congress,
and also responsible for long-distance service across the
country, touching
cities from Chicago to New Orleans to Grand Rapids to Salt
Lake City on a
series of routes that are never going to make money.
Conservative groups that
call for the privatization of Amtrak are basically envisioning a
system where
the Northeast Corridor is left to fend for itself while the money-
losing routes
fade into history.
“Ideally, we would like to see all transportation spending and
taxing
devolve to the states,” said Michael Sargent of The Heritage
Foundation.
None of the Northeastern senators at the press conference
complained
about the cross-country money-losers. Perhaps that was out of
deference to
their colleague, Dick Durbin of Chicago. Perhaps they

7. instinctively understood
that no matter what the drain, Amtrak has a better chance of
political survival
running through 46 states. It’s a theory that works great for the
Defense
Department.
7/14/2015 Let’s Do Some Railing - The New York Times
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do-some-railing.html?_r=0 3/4
Maybe the senators just had a national vision of what national
rail service
is supposed to be.
“It’s worth reminding our colleagues the Northeast Corridor is
the only
part that makes money,” said Senator Chris Murphy of
Connecticut in a phone
interview. “But that doesn’t mean I want to get rid of the rest of
the system. If
we only kept the portions of government that made money, there
wouldn’t be
any point to the State of Connecticut running a Department of
Children and
Families anymore.”
What’s your off-the-cuff verdict, people?
A) Save the railroad!
B) Prioritize! Every train for itself!

8. C) They can do anything they want if they’ll just get together
and fix the
pothole on my corner.
Wow, I believe I see a majority for the pothole. Remind me to
tell you
about how members of Congress just passed the 33rd super-
short-term
highway bill because they haven’t been able to come up with
any normal road
repair funding since 2008.
Transportation unites the country, but the crowded parts and the
empty
parts have different needs. Cities require mass transit, which is
something that
tends to irritate many rural conservatives. (It’s that vision of a
whole bunch of
strangers stuck together, stripped of even the illusion of
control.) Remote
towns and cities need connections to survive, even though the
price tag seems
way out of proportion to those of us who don’t live on, say, an
Alaskan island.
Amtrak’s operating budget is about the same as the Essential
Air Service
program, which subsidizes commercial air service to remote
communities.
Most of the flights are at least two-thirds empty. CBS News, in
a report earlier
this year, found one flight between Kansas City, Mo., and Great
Bend, Kan.,
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essential-air-service-waste-of-taxpayer-money-some-say/

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that generally carried only a single passenger.
Everybody knows that the government can waste money. (If you
have any
doubts, I will refer you to a recent report by Pro Publica about a
glorious new
$25 million, 64,000-square-foot headquarters the military
constructed for
American troops in Afghanistan even though said troops were
going home.)
But making money-losing links between different parts of the
theoretically
United States doesn’t seem to be in that category.
Fix Amtrak. Connect the country.☐
I invite you to join me on Facebook.
A version of this op-ed appears in print on May 28, 2015, on pa
ge A25 of the New York edition
with the headline: Let’s Do Some Railing.
© 2015 The New York Times Company
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10. CIS 130 Final ProjectProject Summary
You have been contracted by Winter, Edwards, and Boyd LLC
to develop a brochure web site. Winter, Edwards, and Boyd
(WEB) is a firm with 3 managing partners and 50 employees.
They offer accounting and financial services to businesses in
the region.Technical Considerations
· HTML5 must be used. All HTML pages must pass validation.
· All styles must be in a(n) external style sheet(s). This includes
one ‘master’ css file, but if you wish to have additional style
sheets for different sections, you may; you would just link both
in the <head> section of your HTML document. Your CSS
file(s) must validate.
· A logical directory structure for your project must be in place.
Keep your files organized in appropriately labeled
subdirectories. This means you should not have all pages and
images in a single folder, but rather have them organized to
keep the related items together.
· All image file sizes must be appropriate for the Web.
· Internal documentation is included in all files.
· No GUI HTML editors may be used.
· Remember it is bad coding practice to use tables to lay out
your pages. Use positioning techniques to accomplish this. You
must include the specific table requested, but the only other
table you are allowed to include (which is optional) would be on
the Submit an Inquiry page to position your form elements.Web
Site Structure
Use the following points to build the structure of your web site.
Each item below should represent a page. Note you may have
additional pages for supportive content for that specific topic if
you so choose to.
· Main Page
· About Us
· Managing Partners
· Company History
· Community Involvement
· Services

11. · Contact
· Submit an Inquiry
The main page should have a top navigation and should support
the top level topics which are: About Us, Services, and
Contact. All pages should have the same layout and design to
give some consistency. General layout may include top
navigation, left navigation (to support relevant subpages), main
content area, and bottom footer; however, I am giving you some
leeway here if you want to use another layout. Be sure to
demonstrate your use of positioning and that the layout meets
the needs and mindset of this company. You can use the outline
above as a good guide for the number of pages you’ll need to
create. For each bullet item presented, it would be a good idea
to have a page to support that topic. Your site should be
approximately 8-11 web pages.Style and Design Guidelines
· Use a professional, conservative color palate. Feel free to
utilize one of the color selection tools found in the Resources
area of our classroom.
· Use professional fonts. Use an appropriate variety of font
sizing, but keep the font selection to a minimum.
· Ensure the site validates properly.
· Each page should be appropriately titled and clearly identified
so the user will know what page they are on.
· Use graphics with appropriate taste. Scaling, size, format, and
positioning should be appropriately handled.
· Each footer page should include your name, course number,
and semester as the copyright information. (Eg. “Created by
Your Name, CIS 130 – SP15”)
· Make sure to keep the top navigation consistent among all
pages. Also incorporate a company logo or company name on
all pages. The image or text should be clickable and allow the
user to return to the home page.
· Each page needs to include the relevant navigation items to
allow the user to navigate to other major topics and/or related
topics. There should be no dead-end pages were the user cannot
navigate to another part of the site.

12. · Use Lorem Ipsum text to represent “copy material” that would
come from WEB. Consider this filler material that that customer
needs to provide. You can use this tool to help you with that:
http://ipsum-generator.com/Content Requirements
Main Page
· Should include a welcome message and some copy material
provided by WEB.
· One or two graphics may also be included
About Us
· This page will tell the user about the company history, how it
was formed, how long it’s been in business, where the company
has been located, and any other pertinent information. You can
use your creativity on what you’d like to put in here. The copy
material would be provided by WEB. Be sure to have section
titles and separation for these content items.
· This page will also have subtopics. Each subtopic item should
be a separate link on the navigation area and would only be
visible under the Our History related content. These subtopics
will have their own page. The subtopics are: Managing
Partners, Company History, and Community
Involvement.Managing Partners
This page will allow the user to learn more about the managing
partners of the firm. This page should include a table with
appropriate headers, rows, and cells to hold the following
information for each partner. You can create your own data, but
must include the minimum data shown below. You can add any
additional info you feel appropriate (ie. professional headshots).
· Name (must include a last name and first name)
· Email address that the user can click on
· Professional certificationsCompany History
This page will allow the user to learn more about the history of
the company. Provide some copy material in paragraph form. 3
to 4 paragraphs should be sufficient.Community Involvement
This page will provide a few paragraphs about the company’s

13. involvement in the community. You will also need to provide
logos and links to charitable organizations that the company
works with. These organizations include:
· Habitat for Humanity
· United Way
· Salvation Army
Services
Provide a page identifying the services WEB provides. These
services are Accounting and Bookkeeping, Investment
Management, and Tax Filing. Each service should have 2-3
paragraphs of copy material. If you choose, you can create
additional pages for each service. If you do, you’ll need to use
the navigation approach for these pages. You will need to make
sure these extra pages and the sub navigation items are only
visible to the Services related pages.
As an extra feature WEB LLC wanted to include customer
testimonials on the page. These testimonials are no longer that
1 or 2 sentences and need to be related to the respective service.
You are free to pick two services for the testimonial feature.
Each testimonial should be placed near the related topic and
should have some sort of visual separation (like a box around
it). Testimonials should not be directly following the regular
paragraph. Rather, the overall text of the page should flow
around the testimonials. You will need to incorporate CSS box
model approach to accomplish this. Testimonials should be
cited by a fictions person. For example: “WEB submitted my
taxes on time and with great accuracy.” - U. Cheatum.
Contact
This page will allow the user to get contact information about
the company. You’ll need to include
· Address information (including City, State, and Zip)
· Phone and Fax numbers
· Email (to a generic email box)
This page will also have a subtopic called Submit an Inquiry.

14. This subtopic item should be a separate link on the navigation
area and would only be visible under the Contact page, and will
take the user to a new page containing a form. On the linked
page, create a form that is used to solicit information from any
customer who wishes to be contacted by a company
representative to discuss their services. This form must gather a
minimum of the following:
· Name
· Address information (including City, State, and Zip)
· Phone
· Email (to a generic email box)
· User preference for whether they wish to be contacted by
phone or email. User should only be able to select one.
· Which service they are inquiring about. Users should be able
to select multiple services.
· General text area for the user to enter further or more specific
information regarding what they are inquiring about.
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