Designing Professional Web Sites for Children (cont.)
Contributed by Klaus Black
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Personalizing Your Web Site Design
There is no doubt that kids like to see their name in print. If your web site design incorporates the ability to greet a returning child by name, the child will find it more enjoyable. Kids also love prizes. If you can arrange to offer a computerized prize of some sort (like a surprise cartoon, or a printable coloring page) as a reward for a winning a game or for clicking on a mystery button, the child will be overjoyed.
What to Avoid When Designing Web Sites for Children
If you want to keep a child's attention, don't overload your site with too much unnecessary text or outdated graphics. Another thing to avoid is being too repetitive. Kids like to see what's going to happen next and they could get bored easily if the same thing keeps happening over and over again.
In addition to these issues, there is a more important thing to avoid. Unfortunately, we live in a world where we have to worry about child predators. For that reason, it is a good idea to avoid creating a chat room for children unless that chat room can be monitored 24 hours per day. We want to make sure that if children are chatting, they are chatting with someone friendly.
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