[WEB4LIB] Designing Websites for Children

[Bouchet, ML]

There is a British Library Digital Library Research Programme project in the
UK - "Stories from the Web" which created a really well-designed and
successful Web site aimed at children, getting them to read /write more. The
site may provide some ideas and further links to information - (it's not a
'how-to' site) 
under "Boring Adult Info" on the home page of the Stories site there are
some more details and links which you could follow up.
http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/stories/

There is also some information about the project in this article from
Ariadne
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/public-libraries/

best wishes

Marie-Laure Bouchet

Library & Information Services
Nottingham Trent University

ml.bouchet at ntu.ac.uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Barclay [mailto:dbarclay at library.tmc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Designing Websites for Children
> 
> 
> My library, in cooperation with the Houston Museum of the 
> Health Sciences,
> is developing a consumer-health website for kids (pre-teens 
> and teenagers to
> start, then expanding to include younger children). I've 
> designed Websites
> aimed at adults (almost typed "designed adult websites," 
> which of course has
> a different meaning), but I have a feeling that designing for 
> kids may be
> its own separate, demanding art form.
> 
> I've been unsuccessfully searching the Web for anything that 
> tells me about
> good design principles for Websites aimed at kids or that 
> says anything
> about how kids use Websites. Lots of stuff about teaching 
> kids to design
> their own Websites and lots of links to Websites for kids, 
> but that's not
> what I need.
> 
> Anyone have any leads on this topic? Anyone with experience designing
> Websites for kids?
> 
> Donald A. Barclay
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> answer
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