Create: Appearance 1.1.3

Create:  Appearance 1.1.3

5 Exemplary Sites:
1.   American Museum of Natural History - Well developed.  Graphics are appropriate to attract the attention of children.  The spacing and balance of color is appropriate.  Use of  fonts and animations appropriate for preschool through elementary age children.
2. Energy For Kids - Well developed and appealing.  Clear boundaries around all elements.  Very creative view of page from sky to underground-  (worth a click and scroll) Links work well and the object os the page move as the page is refreshed-  very eye-catching, yet not at all distracting.
3.  Annenberg Learner- Teacher Professional Development  This website has been revamped since last I visited several months ago.  Good use of color and spacing.  Appropriate media objects are in good taste.
4.  Chem4kids:Matter - Great information, and pages are clear of clutter.  Text and graphics are located in the same pane to make it very clear what the content is about.  Each page follows the same template so navigation isn't an "adventure" for each page.
5.  The Physics Classroom - Holy Web Design, Batman!  This page has had a makeover!  Great appeal, "grown up" presentation, yet images are of items that are appealing to kids.  It used to be the ugliest and most tiring website with the greatest content!  Now it is awesome all around.


5 "Aspiring" Sites:
1.  Priority Professional Development   Too much contrast on page between stark white and Blinding orange.  Text is placed in large chunks.  Main Image does not display.  Some pages appear to be unfinished.
2.  Science Education at Jefferson Lab- This page hasn't had any formatting changes for several years.  It is static in design, with the graphics existing as "clip art" decorations - not much purpose.  Kids page is filled with links and has no engaging graphics.  Looks like the 10 year old web page that it is.
3.  Minerals Home Page - This website is all about minerals, and I have relied upon it in the past to help identify minerals that I had encountered.  It was obviously built for SVGA monitors with   600x800 viewing size.  The web page still has all the great content, but it fits a little over half of the laptop screen.  Lots of italics and close together words.
4.   Astronomy Classes - Looks like html editing only.  No graphics, just super bright blue text in varying sizes on a white background.  Hurts to look at.
5.  San Jose University's New Webpages - Aqua background with Bright Yellow hurts the eyes.  Linear layout, no popping graphics, and a couple of broken links characterize this website.  Looks like an instructional site developed by a Silicon Valley professor for use with his classes.  Probably developed 20 years ago and was, at that time, "state of the art".  Applets.