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Title: The Website Category


1
The Website Category
  • This is a new category for NHD therefore, the
    best place to get thorough answers is to go to
    www.nhd.org and choose Contest. Then choose
    categories, and click on Websites. From this
    site, you can access 5-6 different links for
    helpful tips.

2
Websites The Basics
  • Before choosing this category, ask yourself the
    following questions
  • Do I have time to learn how to build a website?
  • Do I have constant access to a computer?
  • Is my topic visual with many possible interactive
    elements?

3
Websites The Basics
  • Size Requirements
  • 100 MB of file space, including all multimedia
  • Maximum of 1200 student-composed words.
    Documents, quotes, graphs, and brief citations do
    NOT count toward this limit. Every word you
    create on your own DOES count.

4
Important Elements of the Website Category
  • Interactivity
  • Non-textual content
  • Website Organization and Variation
  • Website Planning
  • Saving Web site files
  • Ten Tips for creating an effective website for NHD

5
Interactivity
  • Active teaching of your topic is important. Avoid
    passive reading of material. That is reserved for
    the paper category!
  • Examples
  • Image maps, pop-up windows, sound, video,
    interactive timelines.

6
Interactivity
  • The best interactive elements ENRICH your
    website.
  • A good example A timeline which has active
    links. A viewer can click on a particular time
    period to learn more about that event and see
    images.
  • A bad example A pop-up quiz testing the viewer
    on information in the website.

7
Interactivity
  • A Good example A map of WWII in Europe with
    links for each battle. Viewers can click on
    battles to learn more about the location and
    event.
  • A Bad example links in your website to a photo
    gallery. This lacks organization and leaves your
    viewer wondering what the significance of your
    photos are.

8
Non-textual content
  • Examples of non-textual content
  • Documents, artifacts, oral history selections,
    quotations, video clips, songs, newspaper
    articles, photographs, paintings, or interview
    recordings.

9
Incorporating Non-Textual Content
  • Non-textual content should not just illustrate or
    decorate a page. It should always be used to help
    your user understand your topic more and it
    should support your thesis statement.
  • Use lower resolution, smaller thumbnails with
    links to larger resolution documents.
  • Think of non-textual content as providing
    evidence or proof of your thesis statement.

10
Website Organization and Variation
  • Creating an outline for your project provides the
    initial step to website organization.
  • Heres a direct quote from NHD.org
  • To get started, think about your information as
    if you were writing an outline for a paper. How
    would you divide up your material into major
    sections? How does each section support your
    argument? Now, think of another way you could
    divide the information (chronologically,
    topically, by location, etc.). Which system do
    you think will make more sense to your viewer?

11
Website Organization
  • Remember, youre not just building web pages,
    youre building a website. Therefore, your
    website needs to be logically organized and easy
    to navigate.

12
Website Organization
13
Website Organization
14
Website Organization
15
Website Planning
  • As the web designer, it's your job to decide
    what you want your audience to learn from your
    web site and to figure out how you will teach it
    to them. Write down the major ideas you have
    about your topic on notecards. That way, you can
    lay out these cards and rearrange them to
    understand how the ideas fit together. What
    categories do they fall into? What order should
    they be arranged in? How do these ideas relate to
    the thesis? Once you feel comfortable with these
    categories, they will become the pages of your
    web site. ---www.nhd.org

16
Website Planning
  • Site Design Template, colors, font, style
  • Page content Headings, information
  • Non-textual content Select non-textual content
    that will help viewer understand topic more.
    Write captions. Create interactive elements that
    are enriching.

17
Saving Files
  • The NHD website will not be posted on the
    internet. Therefore, it is necessary that you
    properly save your files on a CD-R.
  • Please click on the following link to learn how
    to save with the appropriate pathname, etc
  • www.nhd.org/awordonsavingwebsitefiles.htm

18
Ten Tips for Creating a NHD website
  • Please visit
  • www.nhd.org/TenTipsforCreatingaSpectacularNHDWebSi
    te.htm
  • Have fun!!
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