TOS Crew Review: Web Design for Kids-Click Drag Solutions

HTML? HMLT? HLTM? Get confused on such things? I do, and frankly I shouldn't, but I do. Oh sure, if it all laid out nicely for me, I can go about my blogging business with little or no issues. But ask me to code something and my eyes will gloss over, my hairs will produce a couple more grays, and that ole "deer in the headlights" look will grace my face. So teaching this sort of material has been somewhat of a challenge for me; one I do my best to avoid. Luckily, am blessed with a child who has been able to understand the slew of books she has read regarding such things. She has spent a lot of time utilizing the knowledge she has acquired, to create all sorts of things her mother can only shake her head at and admire. Now, this has eliminated the need for me to give her lessons; but I still have another student under my tutelage. He will eventually need to know this important information, to better survive in our ever growing computer saturated world.

So what is available for my son? Or for that matte-what about those whose children want to learn, but just do not know where to get the information or instruction? And doubly worse, what if they have a mom like me-a computer challenged individual? Is there a simple program that teaches kids about this HTML coding business? One that isn't all techno talk, or super expensive?



Well Click-Drag my stars of joy! The Web Design for Kids (and Curious Grown-Ups) is one program I easily understood, and it is very well priced! This lovely little DVD course covers:

*10 Basic Lines of Code
*Sandwiches and Colors (not the edible kind, all though having a few new sandwich recipes, is always a good thing)
*Make Subject Stand Out
*Stand Alone Tags
*Designing Backgrounds
*Fonts and Paragraphs
and
*Pictures

So after attending "class", they will be able to pull all this information together to create a nice, simple web page they can be proud of. After spending time practicing the learned coding skills, the child should be able to create a few different styles of web pages. And believe it or not, it is clear and quite easy to grasp!

My son chose to design his web page extolling his love of trucks. Because he is 8, which is a few years below the recommended age level, I simply did the more difficult activities (typing, saving, etc.) while he dictated to me what he wanted on the page. Due to the darker background he chose, I needed the assistance of my daughter to add a white bar behind his reasons concerning his love of trucks; so folks could read it more easily. Making it a wee bit more dressed up than what is covered in this DVD-but not much. We could have also made the pictures scroll, and bounce if we wanted to-since this technique was discussed-but decided against it. Basically, it comes down to how much time the child wants to spend exploring the options, and design elements; in order to have a more jazzed up page. We chose to be more simple in design/style, and are pretty proud of the outcome.

When we wrapped up the lessons, I was a bit saddened. I wanted to learn more! Thankfully, Brian Richardson (the dude behind this program) is hard at work to wrap up the second Web Designs for Kids DVD, so curious grown-ups like me (and yes, children too) can continue on to more advanced concepts. It was a pleasure to use and review this product-and that speaks volumes coming from a Code-aphobic like myself!




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Web Design for Kids Homepage
Current sale on DVD (limited time): $19.99 plus shipping-normally, $40.00
For children (and grown ups) from about age 9 or 10 and up...but if your younger child can follow directions with ease, knows the keyboard and your computer program system-then they should be able to do this with minimal assistance.

When you are all done with your web page design, Brian has created a mini-lesson on how and where to upload your page, so all can enjoy it!

What is really nice about this company is that they will donate a portion of the sales to 5 charities-so you are not only helping your own children out-but others as well. That sounds like a win-win situation to me!

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**Click Drag Solutions provided me with the free DVD copy of Web Design for Kids-Click Drag Solutions, in order to test and use it with my family, so I could write this review.