It is great to be able to display children's art on the web. Until recently most of children's art was displayed on the classroom wall or stuffed into a drawer once taken home or worse thrown away. This is real opportunity for children to create a lasting display of their work for the wider audience.

Use small file sizes
You can scan the art work in or use a digital camera. 
Remember to keep your file size to around 20K or use thumb nails which can be expanded to a larger size. Don't keep surfers waiting! There is nothing worse than huge graphics on the web which no one will wait for. You can download a free program called 20/20 to re-size graphics and create thumbnails. You can download 20/20 from: www.hotfreeware.com 

Give some background
Remember too to add a little of the background to the picture. Include a title if possible, may be the topic you were doing and links to the curriculum. This will give parents and other surfers a greater insight into where the work fits in. You could also give details of the medium the children used such as water colour, pastel etc

Give graphics a title
Giving graphics a title will help the visually impaired who use text-to-speech tools. Always remember to use the "ALT" tag which will give a text description of the graphic.

Examples of School Art Galleries
Why not let me know if you have a school art gallery? I will include it here.

Caldicotes Nursery School  - classroom art

Southwold Primary School, Nottingham
Primary winner Web Nose Day Award - Becta/The Guardian Educational Web Site Awards 2000

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