As part of your final Digital History Project, you have a variety of choices in how to present your story but any presentation or project has the following:
- State your hypothesis early
- Make sure all your work is relevant to your argument.
- Make it interactive
- More than just clicking
- Ask the viewer a question to lead them to the next screen/step
- Provide clear scrolling and navigation
- Citations for any material you use, just like in a regular paper.
- Just because you found it on the internet does not mean it is free to use. Look for permissions, ask for permissions if not found. The
- Testing on several web browsers.
- Scale images for 300 dpi resolution (higher than that is slower to load and is not useful on a monitor)
- Ask 'friendly readers' to review the site and offer honest praise and criticism
- Design for ADA compliance
- Good contrast between text and background,
- alt tags on images.
- Provide contact information for reporting problems, asking questions, or permission requests.