Topics on science websites should correspond to what young people learn in school.

For young people, school-related tasks are often the motivation for searching scientific information. It is hence important that the content is relevant to these school tasks. Attracting visitors to a website with school-related information can be a good opportunity to entice the visitor to read more about science outside of his or her school needs. While not all sites want to work as homework related encyclopaedias, they can consider making a portion of the site behave in that way. Make sure not to give young people too much help with their homework, hints and directions are better suited to helping them study on their own.

When designing a science website for young people, you should consider providing material for teachers. This way, teachers may find the website more useful and use it in their classes, encouraging young people to engage with the website.

Other recommendations:

• Positive image
• Informative text
  
• Clear website identification
• Credibility of information
• School-related tasks
• Visual representation
• Relevance
• Visual design
• Use of multimedia
• Alternative ways to content
• Navigation
• Interactivity