Transcript Website project

Jill Rothstein
SILS 654
Spring 2007
Presentation
My Website Project:
Bloomingdale Library’s Curiosity Club:
A Web portal for science-minded kids
Q: What is the Curiosity Club?
A: It’s a club for 6-11 year olds that meets
monthly at the Bloomingdale library for fun
science-related activities, experiments,
and book discussions.
Purpose of Web site
• Club publicity
• Supporting materials for club topics
• Portal to other science sites and ideas to
encourage continued science-related
exploration
Pages of Website:
• Home page with welcome, description,
and meeting times
• Topic-of-the-month links (Polar Bears)
• Best new fun science books for kids
• Best science Web sites for kids
• Science field trip ideas around NYC
Design Elements to Note:
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Consistent navigation menu on pages
Current page title in different color on menu
Mostly consistent clip art
Links open in new windows
Links are underlined and in blue
Pages are sized to fit on one screen
Clear page titles
http://pratt.edu/~jrothste/Curiosityclub.html
Criticisms
• Didn’t know how to make realistic rounded
tabs and page outlines
• Maybe should have kept a colored border
& a white page to look more professional
• Couldn’t get some clip art to work
Helpful Epiphanies
• Good places to find free clipart:
• http://www.pics4learning.com
• http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
• You can copy an entire table (including links and
colors) and paste it on each page so it’s the same.
• When you’re connected, “save” is the same as
uploading to the server.
• You can change font size and color in the properties
box on the bottom
• This is also the easiest place to make links and make
them appear in new windows
More Epiphanies
• You can use the “indent text” feature from the top menu
to move items around
• What you can’t delete in the display mode you can
delete from the code.
• You can use the bottom Properties menu to choose how
to align text with an image.
• To save an image to the folder you’re ftp-ing to, look in
“servers.”