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Personal Project

I hope to create a website for my personal project, it will be a website aimed at children aged 7-11 or Key stage 2. I have wanted to create a website like this for some time so this is the perfect opportunity, as i have already focused a previous project on schizophrenia and have personal experience i feel i have a good base to begin researching.

I want it to support children who have to cope with a family member with schizophrenia. I hope it will become a non intrusive resource for children wanting support which they can view in there own homes or at school in privacy. It will contain information on a child's level combined with links to support groups and other websites along with hopefully other children's and adults experiences.

Hopefully it will contain some flash or embedded video, although I'm aware this will interfere with BOBBY compliance. I want to create a fun interactive experience to keep a child's attention whilst still adhering to the serious matter involved. I think this is a very serious part of the planning as it will require lots of involvement and testing from children in the age group, I also understand it is quite a wide age group so it will need a lot of research into the levels if understanding children can cope with. I plan to do extensive research by talking to teachers, support groups and gaining information off the internet along with other sources.

I hope to use XHTML and CSS to create it then to consider BOBBY compliance. I will have to learn many skills to finish this website and plan to read books on designing for children, CSS, and XHTML.

By the deadline for this project I hope to have my website fully planed and designed on Photoshop ready to create in my own time over the summer. I feel this is an achievable goal considering I have a lot to teach myself on the subject and extensive research to do.

posted by Miss Kelly @ 1:31 PM