Introduction
Your job, should you decide to accept it, is to create a web site for a fictional candidate for Congress. You will have a choice of six actual congressional districts to run in. Your candidate could be an incumbent or a challenger, Democrat or Republican, in a safe or marginal district. Whatever the case, the candidate will be presenting himself or herself to the public by way of the internet. You will be using FrontPage Express to create the site in the computer lab, but you must do some of your background work at home.
You will be provided with background data on six congressional districts, including geography, demographics, economic information, and recent election results. With that background in mind you will give your candidate a set of beliefs, a set of issue positions, and maybe even a personal history and personality. Other than the information provided, all you really need is a few real candidate sites to use for inspiration and a little background knowledge about some political issues.
Each site must include certain elements:
Ø A fictional biography of the candidate.
Ø A picture of the candidate, possibly with family. You can use a digital picture of yourself or someone else, but not something off of the internet.
Ø A picture or two that represent some part of your district. This may be gleaned from internet sources about the area of the country you are representing.
Ø Information about the district.
Ø A general statement from the candidate about his or her political values, sense of family, love for America, taste for apple pie, blah blah blah.
Ø A set of at least five specific issue positions stated in short paragraphs. Here you may need to do a small amount of digging to make sure you are stating both effectively and accurately.
Ø A request by your candidate for campaign money and volunteer help.
Grading
Your site will be graded out of a total of 200 points. Half will come from technical requirements. The other half will come from content requirements.
Technical requirements and grading Rubric
Content requirements and grading Rubric