Actual progress

Finally it all seems to be coming together and a website may actually be on the horizon. So how has this happened?

Monday 13th 18:00, completed banner and home page image in Photoshop

Tuesday 14th 09:30, set up home page HTML and CSS, designed layout for text pages and built HTML and CSS (for some reason the new background image won't display?)

Thursday 16th 21:00, sat on a train staring out the window... and decided which experiments to showcase on the website

Saturday 18th 10:00, spent the day shopping for cabbage and celery, set up the experiments and photographed them

Sunday 19th 13:00, realised the 'camera to computer connect-y cable' is in another part of the world, sat about feeling miserable and cursing life in general... (15:00) copped onto myself and redid all the experiments photographing them on my phone (18:00) Images uploaded and sent to the file exchange server ready for photoshopping tomorrow (19:11) Bloggin'.

So there you have it captain, a week of work, real work. And, yet more impressive, a 'to do' list for next week:

• Crop and organise the experiment photos in Photoshop
• Make the experiment pages backgrounds
• Complete text pages and sort out background image that isn't displaying
• Write HTML and CSS for experiment pages
• Add clickables to the home page
• Upload to the web
• Beta testing

For the beta testing the website should be accessed by children. I think the best way to do this is to send a link to some of my cousins and friends with small children and ask them to look at the site together and send feedback. It is more appropriate to use this home environment for testing instead of a school as the aim of the website is to get children doing science at home. It would be nice to have a comments page, or a blog page, set up to facilitate this, some thought needed here. 

OK you have been very patient, here are some pictures for general entertainment:

Chemistry experiments: Red cabbage indicator and silver eggs.

Biology experiment: Xylem in celery.

Physics experiment: surface tension power boat. This one is in a complete cartoon strip as a special treat, in the website all the experiments will beset out in this sort of fashion, with catchier titles.