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I was lucky enough to work on website for a local school over the last few months with a group of people from work. It was a hugely rewarding experience and I went along to the school on thursday to launch it. The kind children and staff at Daubeney Primary School gave us each a card to show their appreciation for our work.

One of my ideas behind the development of the site, was to engage the children by getting them to design websites too. It was going to be a slightly simplified version of my craft afternoon pitch, but with 750 children at the school it would have been a little logistically difficult. Instead I produced a lesson plan about good and bad web design and the teachers delivered this to the children in the week leading up to the launch.

It was really amazing to see the work the children produced. Without any perception of what specifically makes a good website, many of the designs really exceeded my expectations of what I expected. Here are some of my favourites…

I really like how the creator of this one has thought very carefully about usability, and designed a sort of a strange kiosk button pressingy thing. There appears to be almost no point to this button whatsoever and its that which makes it so brilliant.

IMGP3270, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This one has clearly thought carefully about filling all the whitespace on the page with all sorts strange shapes, colours and people running around. I think in fact it may well be a clever kind of magic eye crayon drawing where all sorts of shapes jump out at you, the longer you look at it.

IMGP3270, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.