Children think and learn differently than adults do, and the Web sites they like are different, too.
Privacy , for example, is a huge issue, especially since the recent passage of the Children's Online Protection Act , which requires Web sites to get parental consent before collecting information from children aged 12 or younger. This creates a whole new hassle for Web builders, but it's only one part of the picture. Attention span, reading level, and educational concerns also need to be considered. And when the Clinton administration challenged America to connect every classroom and library to the Internet by the year 2000, the percentage of U.S. public schools with Internet access increased to 78 percent . An estimated 42 million kids will be surfing the Web by 2002.