This week, I was able to make my website more user-friendly. I changed the design to make it more appealing and created drop menus to make navigation easier. I also added a social media bar to the collections and individual items so users can share them with their circle. This could easily promote the site itself and potentially gain more users. One of the most significant changes I made was to add two new pages to the exhibits. I added a subsection to the After the Event page under the Historical Background exhibit to provide films created in a partnership between Hollywood and the United States government. Many of these films influenced the memory of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and they can provide not only historical information for researchers but also give the primary users, the contributors, more ways to think about their memories of the event than what was previously planned for the website. I also created a page under the About the Memorial Site exhibit titled Memorial Films. While finishing my research about the memorial, there was an emphasis on the films made for the site. For the same reasons as the previous page, I felt that creating a page dedicated to those films would benefit users.

One of the challenges for this week is to put in the information gathered for the exhibits. Now that the exhibit’s design and layout are complete, I can put the information I have gathered from my research on these pages. Another challenge is finding the items for the website. I still want to find a few items, especially when creating two new pages. Fortunately, I have already begun this process, so the hunt will not be extensive. This week’s last challenge is setting up the terms and conditions for the contribution page so users know what is expected and what they can expect from contributing to the project.