Designing Websites for Children

[Donald Barclay]

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
Houston Academy of Medicine-                         always the beautiful
answer
Texas Medical Center Library                         who asks a more
beautiful question
dbarclay at library.tmc.edu                                     --e.e. cummings
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