The Weather Channel For Kids is a website dedicated to parents, teachers and kids. The home page has six links at the top. At the bottom of the page there are five additional links. Each link has several pages that enhance the previous page with more detailed information. The information is stimulating and colorful. This is done to provide a more interesting learning experience for kids. This information is also relevant to a direct statement in the “Web Style Guide”. The sites, themes, designs on the Weather Channel For Kids “contains characteristics of both an educational and entertaining website.” If you are looking for entertainment you can navigate to the site that has beautiful flash photos of different climates. If you are looking for education,you can easily navigate to one of the nine links and discover learning tools for kids of all ages.This is a friendly user site.
It provides an interactive approach. It allows the user to focus on specific areas of interest with ease. It has a direct link to comments in (Manovich pp 61). Interactive computer media perfectly fits the trend to externalize and objectify the mind’s operation. This approach gives the user easy access to specific information.The non-linear format allows the user to go directly to the weather ready link and within seconds, the weather for the day is displayed with colorful and entertaining graphic designs. This site also has access to weather games.There are ten games that are interactive for kids as young as six years old. They provide a unique opportunity to learn about specific aspects of the weather.The colors,the graphics are displayed beautifully throughout each page. I will discuss in detail the many aspects of this site and how each one contributes to the entertaining and educational purpose of the web designers.