Investigate Website

We have started a new unit called Website. The goal of this unit is to make a website of our own. I am very excited to do this because I like doing things like this. I like creating things that other people can see and I like designing them.

The site called thinkquest.org annually organizes a competition for kids that make the best website. I checked out some of them that won places and they were really good. It was unbelievable that kids did them. They had 3 places for 1st place and 3 places for 2nd place and so on. It is because they have kids competing with a variety of ages, so they have 19 and under, 15 and under and 12 and under. Making a website is tough work so they allow kids to work in groups. Kids from all over the world enter this program. I got a lot of inspiration and ideas, so I will be sure to think back or look back to these sites when I am making my own website.
The sites that appealed to me from the design standpoint were a few. One was the leadership one from 2009. It had great pictures and colors. The layout/theme was perfect for the topic of the site. It catches people’s eyes. The best thing was the pictures. It also had many links to other information inside the website. The websites that I didn’t like were the ones that take forever to start. They have a starting off thing like picking what kind of server you have, or what language you want. The chocolate one had a very long introduction. It was just showing chocolate coming from all over the world. Even though the information and things were great I just didn’t like the beginning part.

From the ones that I saw from thinkquest.org were the chocolate, the time for tolerance, and man and woman the age-old struggle, and many more. They were interesting to me because they are just interesting topics for me. I like chocolate because I love chocolate and I wanted to know the origin and history of chocolate.

Chocolate
http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/00696/
Leaders
http://library.thinkquest.org/08aug/02289/
Time for Tolerance
http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00117/
Man and woman: the age old struggle
http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01443/