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| • Do use relative links. See Links.. |
| • Do provide credit for the source of your images and ideas. See Citations. |
| • Do Not add those cute tails that follow the cursor as it moves. Many people find them annoying and distracting on a "serious" website. See example... |
| • Do Not add custom cursor scripts (changes normal curser into a rocket or sword) to your project. They can slow navigation through your site. |
| • Do Not make the web page too wide see example |
| • Do Not use heavily patterned background images. See example... |
| • Do Not use too large a heading for your pages. Large headings push the important parts of the page down the screen and require more scrolling than necessary. See example... |
| • Do Not unnecessary popup boxes. |
| • Do Not use script fonts. See example... |
| • Do host all your files on the VSF server. Images and movies must be hosted on the VSF server. They must not be hosted on an external server and only linked to from the project. |
| • Do Not use pop up navigation boxes such as this. See example... |
| • Do Not have live links to anything external to the project such as the live link to the source of buttons on this page See below buttons on left side ... |
| • Do provide a button to skip a Flash introduction/splash page See Example. |
| • Do provide controls for background audio See Example. |
| • Do use gif and jpg files for images. Do not use bmp files. bmp files may be more than 10 times larger than equivalent jpg files. The images on this page are each over 1200 KB. jpg files less than 100KB would have provided equal quality at a much lower download time. |
| • Do provide evidence of your work. See working log Example. |
| Photos to help document your work |
| • Do provide the source code for any programming. See Example. |
• Do follow school policy and parents' wishes with respect to the use of photographs and video containing images of students. A couple of possible workarounds that may be possible: Video with disguised students |
| • Do use video. See example... |
| • Do use graphs. See example... |
| • Do use drawings . See example... |
| • Do use Flash and Director movies. See example... |
| • Do use data tables. See example... |
| • Do use photographs of your work. See example... |
| • Do use sound with respect for file sizes. See example... |
| • Do build and use animated gifs. See example... |
| • Do try something creative such as this Virtual Display Board. |
| • Do Not present your project in the form of downloadable Word documents. See example... Sometimes downloadable pdf files may be appropriate, but even pdf files should be used only in special circumstances such as a supplement or second copy of existing html pages. See an appropriate use of pdf files in this example |
| • Do use interactive quizzes. See example... |
| • Do use links (named anchors) to jump up and down long pages rather than having to scroll. See example click "contents"... |
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