Animal Encyclopedia
Proof of concept for a website about animals targeting children.
As always, I wanted to build something, and I didn't know what to build. I tinkered about creating a website with public information, so I decided to build a website about animals with data from Wikipedia. I also decided to target the kids demographic because I have not done it yet.
The final iteration is in a 'briefing' or 'archive' style. The markers on the pages open different sections of the dossier.
All is rendered with HTML, CSS and JavaScript - surprisingly very little JS.
I built the dossier-styled home, a functional animal encyclopedia, 2 games (memory and slider).
I thought about showing a different anima every day, or every week. I also thouight about creating more curated content such as chronicles, poems and texts of my own talking about the animals.
The project suffered a setback during the data extraction from wikipedia. There is no standardization, every animal has different informnation and each page on wikipedia is unique. This would mean manual extraction and customizing the dossier for every animal, which goes against what I was aiming to accomplish: a entertaining, educational and automatic website that would present new content every now-and-then.
I still like the idea of creating a website about animals for kids. Anyways, at least I got a proof of concept and could test the idea quickly.
Claude was of great use.