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Our goal is to generate awareness about good website development practices to help improve the overall standard of Thinkquest entries. ThinkQuest competition started in 1996 and from reviewing many past year entries, we made the observation that a potential winning entry scores on content, design and interactivity
We will therefore be exploring these three main aspects of website development. Furthermore, we compile useful information about client-side web development like XHTML and CSS to produce standards-compliant and future-proof websites for the ThinkQuest educational repository. We also provide an interactivities section to share some of the dos and don'ts in website building. Do explore them!
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- To generate awareness of good website development practices
- To raise the overall quality of ThinkQuest library entries visited by millions of people
- To provide references for aspiring ThinkQuesters to explore deeper into client-side web development possibilities
Our Motivation
After reviewing many of the winning and participating entries, we feel there is a need for a guide to educate students participating in ThinkQuest on the essential issues of website development. Our primary motivation is thus to help aspiring ThinkQuesters create more effective websites so as the entire educational community can benefit.
ThinkQuest is arguably the only large scale educational web repository in the world which is developed solely by students, and they take part in the competition with this sole purpose in mind. Thus, in order for the ThinkQuest library to continue to benefit the millions around the world, the quality of websites can be improved. We therefore present this site for all ThinkQuesters and hope that they will gain some knowledge to enhance their skills in website development so as to develop a richer resource for students by students.
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Our site mainly targets ThinkQuest participants (which we affectionately call ThinkQuesters). We have recognized that there are 3 different age groups in ThinkQuest competition, and we plan to cater to all groups with our special content structure.
Explore Deeper
In many sections, you may notice an 'Explore Deeper' button. This sub-section within each section contains elaboration on the technology and techniques in more descriptive and technical details.
The reason why we structure our content like this is because we are aware of 3 different categories in ThinkQuest competition, namely the under 12, under 15 and under 19. If we present information that is hard to understand for the under 12 category, it might defeat the purpose of the site. We also noticed that the under 12 and 15 place more focus on design aspects, while the under 19 tend to emphasize on critical content and technologies. Hence, we have organized our content in a scaffolding manner that every ThinkQuester will understand the information presented, improve on their knowledge and finally explore deeper when they feel comfortable to do so.