How to Build Trebuchet Websites

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The trebuchet was a type of siege engine used in various forms in the ancient world and in the middle ages for battering down fortifications. Trebuchets were also used to hurl projectiles over the wall into the town or city. Many people have a fascination with these devices, and even build modern reproductions to text their capabilities, or just for fun. They sometimes even create websites to share their knowledge about their hobby. If you would like to create a website devoted to this topic there are several things you will want to do.

Things You'll Need

• Images
• Webpage editor

Instructions

1. Gather images, such as photos, illustrations or drawings, and place them on your computer for use.

2. Decide on exactly what you want to have on your website. For example, choose whether you want to cover the entire history of trebuchets from the ancient Greeks to the Middle Age, or if you would rather concentrate on just one time period. If you choose to cover different periods, you should create separate pages for each time period.

3. Decide whether you want to talk about all types of trebuchet (there are several) or if you want to pick just one, such as the counter-weight trebuchet. Again, if you choose to cover more than one you will want subpages to cover each type.

4. Research the topic thoroughly and type up the text you want to use on your site in a word processing program. Then sketch out how you want each page to be laid out.

5. Open your web-editing program and create a new website in it. Then create container layers for your content, inserting the pictures you want to use and placing them where they should be. Also, create containers for your text and paste that in from your text document.

6. Add a navigation bar using the presets in your program and add hyperlinks to the pages on your site.

7. Sign up with a webhost and publish your site to the URL the host provides.

References

• PBS: NOVA Builds a Trebuchet