Creating a Web Site Category Rules- Historical Web Sites (WS) An historical web site entry should reflect your ability to use web site design software and computer technology to communicate your topic's significance in history. The historical quality, analysis, and interpretation of your topic must be clear and evident to the viewer. Web Sites are the most interactive of all categories. In designing your entry, you should include elements that actively engage your audience in learning about your topic. These elements do not have to be technologically complex, but they should let the audience participate in exploring the topic, rather than passively viewing information. Your presentation should include primary materials, but must also be an original production. To produce a web site, you must have access to appropriate software and equipment and be able to operate it. All general category rules apply to the Historical Web Site category. The following are rules are specific to Historical Web Sites. Web Site Requirements: WS-1 SIZE REQUIREMENTS: Web site entries may contain no more than 1200 visible, student-composed words. Citations, code used to build the site, and alternate text tags on images do not count toward the word limit. The word limit does not include words found in materials used for illustration, such as documents, artifacts or graphs not created by the students, or to quotations from primary sources such as oral history interviews, letters, or diaries, photos of artifacts with writing, or other illustrative materials that are used as an integral part of the web site. The entire site, including all multimedia, may use up to 50 mb of file space only. WS-2 NAVIGATION: One page of your site must serve as the "home page." This page must be saved in the root directory of the CD-R (not in any folder) with the name "index." The home page must include your name, the title of your entry, your division, and a main menu that directs viewers to the various sections of your site. All pages must be interconnected with hypertext links. Automatic redirects are not permitted. WS-3 MULITMEDIA: A single multimedia clip may not last more than 45 seconds and may not include student-composed narration. Web Sites should be able to be browsed using Internet Explorer and Netscape. The only other plug-ins permitted are Real Audio, Flash and Adobe PDF. Links to external websites are not permitted. Web sites should stand alone. WS-4 ENTRY PRODUCTION: All entries must be original productions. Students may use professional photographs, graphics, video, recorded music, etc. within the site. Such items must be integrated into the web site, and proper credit must be given within the site as well as in the annotated bibliography. All students are reminded of copyright laws. Any such item can only be used with the permission of the owner. Students must operate all software and equipment in the development of the web site. NOTE: using objects created by others specifically for use in your entry violates this rule, but using graphics, multimedia clips, etc. that already exist is acceptable. WS-5 REGISTRATION PROCESS: All web sites—individual or group of up to three- compete with each other. There is a limit of three web site entries per school. Web sites are submitted at the time of registration. We require one CD and three copies of printouts of each page and three copies of your bibliography. Do not include the bibliography on your web site. For more information, please contact Ellen Rendle at erendle@dehistory.org or by phone at (302) 295-2386 or Andrea Gomez at agomez@dehistory.org or by phone at (302) 295-2388. These category rules are a compilation of the rules in use by the National History Day programs in Arizona, California and Texas. These rules were taken almost exclusively from the Texas program.