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| After the Christmas holidays in
December 1997 we saw a poster in our school, the CSW. It would be a challenge to make a
educational homepage. We decided to work together and began with the preparations.
Jachin should do the HTML, Job was the teamleader and should do the organization, and
Wouter would do the texts.
Creativity and perseverance was presented and we had the intention to bring it to a
good end.
We met each other several times and agreed that having the Deltaworks as subject was a
good idea. Since the flood of 1953 many publications appeared about this subject.
Certainly, there was too much information and we had to make an attractive, instructive,
eye-catching and thrilling homepage and we had so little time. |
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The information shouldn’t be too
detailed and on the other hand not incomplete. Which source should we take?
We decided to approach WaterLand Neeltje Jans. This commercial tourist recreation and
exhibition center near the Oosterscheldedam has an advanced library. They welcomed us and
after a good and long discussion they agreed that we could use their information.
We were looking for a coach and found one: Dolf. He was exacting, optimistic, calm and
capable. He could mean very much for us. We asked another person, Ruud, to advise us on
the technical side of this project. |
| Our school gave us
permission to take part in this contest and was willing to support our team. But there was
only one internet-computer for all students! This was a big problem but we had no other
alternatives. We got envelopes, paper and stamps for free to write to the cities that
we wanted to have in our page. Our school performances didn’t suffer under these
activities, thank goodness.
We wrote articles, made pictures, composed music, made a video, etc. and cosulted many
people. We realized that all the information on the Delta Works could not be foud in just
one archive: all files were scattered all over the Netherlands. Doing research took much
time. We went to many libraries. |
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The Deltaworks was a
very special subject for it’s variety: -safety
-environment
-nature
-technique
-history
-future
It was a nice and educative time and we learned a lot. We learned to co-operate, making
plans, being inventive and creative with the primitive make someting inviting for people
from other countries. It is very difficult to explain what the need is of the Deltaworks
in such a small land as the Netherlands is. |
Wouter
had to do a lot of text and Job had to oginise everything as a timeleader. He had to do
the text also and help with images and a bit with HTML. Jachin did almost all the HTML and
most of the pictures. Dolf supported us with tips about all sorts of things.
The small boy in the left-corner is made by the team and not copied from a Clipart. The
last weeks of the contest Jachin and Job and Dolf began to make the homepage work. Wouter
helped with the last necessary translations and Jachin made all the HTML-pages.
Eventually this was the page we builded. We hope you like it and that you have even
more fun with reading, watching and browsing through it as we had with building it.
We wish you much fun,
The Deltateam |
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