We surfed the Internet ourselves and constructed numerous Web pages. Here are the results of our study. While there are several places that offer free Web hosting, not all offer instruction in how to build a Web page. After naming their site at The Express Page, children make a series of decisions about what the site will look like. They can choose the background image, a clip art graphic, line graphics, bullet graphics and some animated graphics.
Children can also import their own photos and graphics for posting on their Web page.
Our kid-testers greatly appreciated being given so many choices. The one negative is that the newly created Web page will have to host an advertisement. So far, none of these were offensive, nor did they bother the budding Web masters. You might want to suggest that the child outline or write out part of the content before going to a site to build a Web page. We know of several instances where children have been disciplined by schools for putting inappropriate material on their Web sites.