05-20-2004, 05:11 PM
(Assalam)
hey everyone here is my proposal for the children:
<b>First of all here are the objectives:</b>
Help the children to gain knowledge of islam.
Introduce them to the wide world of islam on the internet
teach them how to navigate around sites in general
MOST OF ALL..... ALLOW THEM TO HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!
<b>Note:</b>We need to fulfil these objectives the question is <i>HOW???</i> we need something FUN, CAPTIVATING, COOL TO LOOK AT and most of all FULL OF KNOWLEDGE....
well i think i have an idea:
<b>here is the plan:</b>
A treasure hunt:
<b>1] HOW THE KIDS WILL SEE IT:</b>
they will be introduced to an interface where they are going on a ship(similar to a pirate ship) to different parts of the internet: the interface would take them to a whole new site where they will be greeted by a person who would come aboard their ship... this person would ask them an islamic question... To answer this question they will be pointed to a section of the site that they will have to go through(something small children have small attention spans)..when they get the answer then they will be given the secret location to another point on the map(which is really another site)they will go through the same thing here....
when they have finished about 10 questions and 10 different sites then they would be given a prize and added to a winner's list for everyone to see...
there will be three different levels of questions.. easy.. meduim and TOUGH...
<b>2] THE TECHNICAL BEHIND THE SCENES OPERATIONS:</b>
INTERFACE:
this would be done in flash... it would have a cartoonish appearance and the questions would be read off a text file on the server...
ASP(Active Sever Pages):
this server/side language will be used to write the text file.. this way there can be an administration area set up where the moderators can change the questions periodically... since www.islamsms.com doesnt support this, it would have to be hosted off my site www.naseeha.com.
... but here is what i was thinking...we could have one page with two frames.. one above and one on the bottom.. the top one will have the interface with the pirate ship and the quesitons and the bottom one will be where they will see other sites load up so that they can browse through it and find the answers then they would put that answer in the interface...
when they have answered all the questions then they will put their name in a little box and will be given the prize
THE PRIZE:
well i talked to muslimah about this and we were thinking to let them download a story book with islamic stories for children... but we will have to put this up.. somehow we could use help with this...
THE GRAPHICS:
we would need some graphics of a treasure map,
the decking of a ship with a person standing by the ship's steering wheel (this is the child himself)
a few pics of people from different sites... (in islamic garb)
a treasure chest
<b>3] PROGRESS THUS FAR</b>
well i only had the idea yesterday.. so i havent actually done anything yet... i asked one of my freinds to do the graphics but i dont know when i will get it.. he is a very busy person
as for the rest i will do it by myself but i need help with the stories... i want someone to help me with some prizes
and when everything is ready then we will have to prepare the questions and maybe email some sites to go on an advertising campaign of some sort... in order to get the word out there...
as for everything else i will be handling that.. but everyone gotta understand one thing i am studying to become a professional accountant... I HAVE NEVER in my life had any lessons in web programming... everything that i am doing will be totall y amateur and i will have to do it by trial and error... not only that but i have exams in early june so things will be slow before that... i can use any help...
i heard joshua is into graphics.. maybe he would be interested in helping...
this is my proposal....
now lemme get some feedback
(Walikum)