About
The website
CAPTION: Gabrielino High School's campus
Our website "Medicine - Past, Present, and Future" focuses on a wide range of issues in medicine. It analyzes historical medicine throughout the world and focuses on issues and innovations in the present day. Lastly, the website discusses future innovations, which may one day reshape the world of medicine.
Website layout
Our website is designed with the reader in mind. We wanted to focus mostly on the content, so they are prominently featured at the top of each webpage. Also, a handy toolbox section is available for users to learn more. The website is intuitively designed, with the tabs indicating which section you are on. Likewise, the footer contains text links of all of the main sections.
Multilingual support
Burmese language version
A large portion of articles were translated into Traditional Chinese (繁體字) by Gloria, and appear in the toolbox. Justin also began work on a Burmese language version of the website, using Burmese Unicode. However, upon testing with other browsers, the team found that it was unfeasible to create a Burmese language version compatible with all major web browsers, as the technology was not yet available.
The team
Our team consists of members from Gabrielino High School (three seniors, one sophomore, and one freshman), located in Southern California, United States. All of us are members of the Gabrielino Engineering, Mathematics, and Science club and our advisor and coach is Mrs. Traeger, a biology teacher at Gabrielino High. This is the first year the team has competed in the ThinkQuest competition.
Justin
Primary responsibilities:Created the HTML code for the website, cropped and resized photos, created final layout for the website, wrote articles for the Present section.
Background: American citizen, of Burmese ancestry
Gary
Primary responsibilities:Wrote articles for the Present section, created initial website layout and helped finalize the website
Background: American of Cantonese Chinese ancestry
Gloria
Primary responsibilities:Wrote articles for the Past section, created initial website layout.
Background: American of Taiwanese ancestry
David
Primary responsibilities: Wrote articles for the Future and Present sections and for the homepage
Background: American of Cantonese Chinese ancestry
Diane
Primary responsibilities:Wrote articles for the Past and Present sections, created initial website layout, and found relevant See also links
Background: American of Taiwanese ancestry
Disclaimer
Although we have worked our hardest to provide balanced views, as well as thorough and verifiable materials in our website, we are not responsible for any improper usage of the information provided nor responsible for information that may happen to be inaccurate. This website is informative and should in no manner be used to diagnose diseases and such. Some of the information that may appear will be controversial. We are not responsible for any loss or damages incurred upon accessing any of the linked third party sites. Access to any third party site is under your own responsibility and risk, and you are subject to the terms of use of the third party site visited.
This site is created for the ThinkQuest August 2006 competition. All written information is copyrighted by the Gabrielino Engineering, Mathematics, and Science club, while graphics have been duly attributed in the sidebars where they appear. All other images are believed to be in the public domain.