Having trouble finding a project topic? Here are some ideas!

Each idea has a list of possible features that you could work on. You would not need to include every possible feature, and the website will not necessarily be a fully functional site. But you can get part of the way there as you learn more tools.

Restaurant Website

• Restaurant description, hours, pictures
• Provide a menu for users to view
• Allow users to make reservations online
• Contact us page for sending in comments or questions: save them to a database or figure out how to make it email them to you
• Create a compelling CSS layout that sells the restaurant’s image and makes customers want to visit

Online Store

• List items / descriptions / prices
• Store info / hours / location
• Add items to shopping cart
• View a product page for an item
• Read and write product reviews
• Choose what appears on the front page, such as info about a sale, or new products, or popular products, or an uncluttered splash screen with info about what the store is all about, or…

Food Blog

• Post pictures and recipes
• Store the blog text in a database
• Separate author page for typing in the blog title, text, and date
• Display the most recent blog entry on the front page (load from database)
• Include about 100 pictures of each recipe so it looks like a real food blog

Online trivia or math game/tutorial/study practice

• Make a pool of possible questions: randomly generate them, or load them from a database or file
• Display possible answers or provide a place to type in the answer
• Evaluate if the answer is correct or not and display the next question
• Keep score and tell the user how well they did
• Store the score in a scores database
• Display a list of recent scores or high scores from the database

Personality Quiz

• Ask the user questions to determine what category they fit best (Harry Potter house, ice cream flavor, etc)
• Use JavaScript to display the next question after they answer
• Use JavaScript to create the logic to figure out what personality flavor to assign
• Display a picture and a message that says “You are [something]!” at the end.
• Create multiple quizzes if you “finish” the project early

Resume / vCard website

• Create a site that advertises your talents and experiences to potential employers (resume) or customers/clients (vCard)
• Note: a public Cloud9 workspace is out there for anybody on the internet to view. Suggestion: use a fictional name and do not post personal information such as address / phone / email.
• Make a compelling CSS layout that makes you seem professional / creative / smart / organized / motivated / etc.
• Create separate pages or tabs that provide some different categories of information about you: education, experience, awards/honors, skills, portfolio examples, etc

Organization Website (team, club, nonprofit organization, etc)

• Front page to give a first impression of the organization
• Calendar page
• How to join
• About us page
• Ability to add new calendar events to a database: calendar page automatically displays all of them from the database, or a certain number of the most recent ones
• Form for new members to sign up; store responses in a database