Hints and Tips
Suggestions for the Web Page Competition
The objective of this year's competition is "to create some web pages with a local theme related to your school work".
If you would like to enter the competition but are short of ideas about what to put on your web pages, you may find some of these suggestions useful:
- An Oxfordshire study?
- Out and about around our school
- A presentation about a school visit, field trip or school trip
- How can we make our local area safer?
- A parents’ evening presentation: We are Proud of our School
- A sports review: matches / games and so on.
- Environmental issues; for example Issues of Energy Supply – a report or documentary
- A Controversial Issue (of your choosing)
- A site dedicated to an aspect of science revision for KS2
- The life of a literary character
- A Biography - of someone local, or you admire
However whatever you choose, remember to consider:
- Make it interesting to your rel audience
- Think about the purpose of the site; why are you making it?
- Make it "user friendly"!
Some places to look for design ideas
- Learn good design by looking at bad web design: Web Pages That Suck.com
- Dr Jakob Nielsen - King of Usability
- Yahoo’s directory of Web design links
- The Web Style Guide (2nd Edition)