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How We Did It

To create this site, we met about once a week until the deadline. Nick and Sam, who know HTML, taught Andy who was new to it. Though Andy didn't do much of the coding, he did a lot of the content to make up. Nick wrote all his own code in Notepad and Homesite (though not to edit it, just to view it), Andy used notepad, with Nick's help. Sam used Dreamweaver to do the HTML and Notepad to write the JavaScript.

The first thing we did was to divide the world up according to our interests. Nick took responsibility for researching Roman, Sam did the Mediterranean and Africa, and Andy did the Americas and Chinese archaeology.

Then we divided up all the other topics that weren't directly related to the geography. Sam wrote the main Famous Sites page, and was responsible for the Tools and Dating pages, the Create Your Own Dig page, and Meet the Archaeologists, and the Middle history page.

Nick developed the Main page (home) and also the main History page, the Ancient page, the Modern page. He used an animator to make the animated graphic of the bulldozer and the person digging.

Andy created the How They Do It, What Is Archaeology, and all their subpages, and Early and Current history pages.

Sam did the JavaScript for the Quiz, for which we all created the questions, because he taught himself JavaScript and he liked programming with it. He also created Organize the Tools and the Go Dig! game, creating the images and the JavaScript.

Sam did most of the interviews, though Nick came up with a quality interview.

We all came up with our favorite links, and wrote up our own citations. Nick was responsible for organizing them. At the very end, Nick created a site map so we could see the full outline of our labors.

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