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What is a Website?
What is a Website?
The website category is the most interactive of all NHD categories. A website should reflect your ability to use website design software and computer technology to communicate your topic’s significance in history. Your historical website should be a collection of web pages, interconnected by hyperlinks, that presents both primary and secondary sources and your historical analysis. To engage and inform viewers, your website should incorporate interactive multimedia, text, non-textual descriptions (e.g., photographs, maps, music, etc.), and interpretations of sources. To construct a website, you must have access to the Internet and be able to operate appropriate nhdwebcentral.org.
NHD_EvaluationForms_Round1_092021_Website.pdfWill I like designing a Website???
Websites can display materials online, your own historical analysis as well as primary and secondary sources. Websites are interactive experiences where viewers can play music, look at a video or click on different links. Viewers can freely navigate and move through the website. Websites use color, images, fonts, documents, objects, graphics and design, as well as words, to tell your story.
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Great!!! Where do I start?
Research your topic first.
Examine primary and secondary sources. From this research, create your thesis. This will be the point that you want to make with your historical website.
Narrow in on the content of your website.
Decide what information you want to incorporate in your web pages, such as any photos, primary documents, or media clips you may have found. You should be sure to have plenty of supporting information for your thesis.
Create your website with the NHD Site Editor.
Consider organization and design.
Keep it simple: don’t waste too much time on bells and whistles. Tell your story and tell it straight.
Borrow ideas from other websites: find design elements that work and imitate them on your website. Just remember to give credit where credit is due.
Make sure every element of your design points back to your topic, thesis, and/or time period. There should be a conscious reason for every choice you make about color, typeface, or graphics.
Am I following all of the NHD rules for the Website category?
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