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Examples of excellent Web Sites.

http://56608592.nhd.weebly.com/timeline.html - The Road to Conquering Prejudice: Loving v. Virginia

 

http://98755569.nhd.weebly.com/ - Polio Pioneer: Jonas Salk

 

http://84468453.nhd.weebly.com/ - Out of the Box, Into the Oven: Transforming the American Diet

How to Create a Historical Web Site

How to Create a Historical Web Site

What is a Historical Web Site?

A historical web site is a collection of web pages, interconnected with hyperlinks, that presents primary and secondary sources, interactive multimedia, and historical analysis. Your web site should be an accumulation of research and argument that incorporates textual and non-textual (photographs, maps, music, etc.) description, interpretation, and multimedia sources to engage and inform viewers about your chosen historical topic.  


How is a Web Site Different from Other Categories?

Web sites can display materials online, your own historical analysis as well as primary and secondary sources.  These can be photographs, maps, documents, or audio and video files. Web sites are interactive experiences where viewers can play music, solve a puzzle, or look at a video or click on different links. Viewers can move through the web site in various undirected ways. Web sites use color, images, fonts, documents, objects, graphics and design, as well as words, to tell your story.

Getting Started

  • Decide whether you want to create your web site as part of a group or on your own.
  • Research your topic first. Examine secondary and primary sources. From this research, create your thesis. This will be the point that you want to make with your historical web site.
  • Narrow in on the content of your web site. Decide what information you want to incorporate in your web pages, including 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. Click here to begin the registration process.
  • Organize 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 Web Sites: find design elements that work and imitate them on your web site. 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.

Begin your site now.

NHD Web Site Registration Guide

 Watch the video on Weebly here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzSR0cXeLe4 or read the info. below.

 

  
Please Read Before Starting!  
   
Begin by going to http://nhd.weebly.com. When you register, please do not forget to supply a valid e-mail address, as this will be the only way for NHD & Weebly to recover your username or password should you forget it. Make note of your username and password and keep it handy - should any problems arise while editing your site, you'll want to be able to give the person who's helping you your username and password quickly.

Please note for 2013:   If you created a website for NHD for the 2012 contest last year, you will need to make a NEW account now with a different username/password or email address.
 
   
After you login you'll find a minimal-looking page with your NHD Site URL and megabyte usage. Your URL should look something like http://37408014.nhd.weebly.com. Each NHD web site has an automatically generated indentification number that is 8 numbers long.  You should not have any letters in your URL, nor should you be able to pick what goes into your URL.

If the address between http:// and nhd.weebly.com is not a string of 8 numbers, but instead asks you to create a custom URL like http://lincolndouglassdebates.weebly.com, please contact NHD at elaine@nhd.org with details of the issue.
 
   
When you've finished making your edits for the day, do not forget to publish your web site! You will find the Publish Now button in the upper right-hand corner. Remember to publish your website each and every time you edit your site - and make sure you've published your site before your local contest lock-out dates, or you may be disqualified from participating in the contest!
 
Judging Lock-Out  
When your contest lock-out dates have started, you'll be able to login to your site, but you won't be able to edit it. You'll get a warning that says "Your site has been locked - In accordance with NHD program rules, your site has currently been locked and may not be edited. When this judging period is over, your site will be unlocked and you may continue to make changes."
 
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