The Website Category

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Non-textual content

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Website Organization
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Website Organization
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Website Organization
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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

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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.

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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

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Ten Tips for Creating a NHD website

• Please visit
• www.nhd.org/TenTipsforCreatingaSpectacularNHDWebSi
  te.htm
• Have fun!!