You want to make a kids website? - fantastic!
What kinds of things can I put on my website?
Photos, drawings, videos, clipart, animation, music and sound - and content that you write yourself. Any of these can go on a website.
What can I make my website about?
You can make a site about anything you're interested in! Here are some cool ideas:
What kinds of things can I put on my website?
Photos, drawings, videos, clipart, animation, music and sound - and content that you write yourself. Any of these can go on a website.
What can I make my website about?
You can make a site about anything you're interested in! Here are some cool ideas:
How to make a website for kids!
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Activities Do you like skateboarding, bodyboarding, bicycling, dancing, bushwalking or any other active stuff? You could give other kids tips on the best equipment, the best places to go, and show your photos and videos. |
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Creative arts Are you into drawing, painting, writing, scrapbooking, photography, pottery, making animation, or drawing cartoons? Share them with other kids! |
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Your sports team You could make a website about the team you play for - with photos of games and trips away. You can make the site password-protected so that only members of your team can enter. Be sure to ask your coach if it's okay to make a team site before you get started. |
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Pets Love your pets? Make a website all about them! |
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Where you live There are lots of cool things about every single place in the world - even if you think where you live is pretty boring. You could write about what's amazing, funny or whacky about the place you live in - and include lots of location photos! Be sure not to include personal information about yourself. |
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Books and movies buff? Do you have favorite books or movies? Like reading or watching movies? You could do book or movie reviews - and even invite other kids to review books and movies too! |
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Reviews You could start a review site about your favourite movies, books, console games, pets and hobbies. |
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Love animals? Collect photos, drawings and interesting facts about your favourite animals, and put them all on a website. |
Thank you to animationlibrary.com for the great free animation of the skateboard monster above.
What not to put on my website?
If you want to make a website for kids, make sure it's easy to read and understand. Don't pack everything onto one page! Break the pages up and try to stick to one topic per page.
Don't overload your website with animation or flashing objects - and if you do add sound - make sure you add a 'turn me off' button.
It can become confusing or annoying to have too much happening on the one page - and don't expect everyone to like your taste in music!
Also - if you up with load images, video and music with high kilobytes, your site can take forever to download for someone on a dialup or slower broadband connection.
(Right-click on the photo of the skateboarding monster above. Scroll down to Properties, then look at the Size - this tells you how many kilobytes the image has. This size of this image is 4789 bytes. Because there are 1000 bytes in every kilobyte, 4789 bytes is almost 5 kilobytes.) 5 Kilobytes (KB) is pretty low and this image will download very quickly for a person visiting your website.
How can I make a free website for kids?
We're always looking for the best places for kids to make their own free website. A lot depends on what kind of website you want to make. We're going to do our best to find sites to help kids make all kinds of different websites. Take a look at our guide on where kids can make a website for free.
How do I stay safe online?
Read our guide on how kids can stay safe online.
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