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Our whole team helped build the website. It was great fun designing the graphic elements. It took a long time to totally finish the work. Part of the work was learning how to use the software to create the website. The hardest part was getting the boys and girls to agree on the main colors! We used Adobe Photoshop for the design and moved to Macromedia Dreamweaver to create the HTML. One of our teachers used to be a web developer, so she taught us how to do it.

We met as often as we could - at least once a week for 10 weeks. When we started making the website, everyone wanted to help. Each student who wrote an article built the web page for his own article. We also made extra articles because everyone had their own ideas. Since we learned so much, we wanted to put as much as possible online.

We named our website Eternal Light Beacon because we decided our lunar base was going to be at the Peak of Eternal Light, a real mountain near the south pole of the moon. (It is a real fact that scientists have decided that the Peak of Eternal Light would be a good place to establish a base.) Also, the term "Beacon" is often used for a newspaper and it means light. Because we are a group of Christian homeschoolers, we liked the double meaning of the Eternal Light Beacon.

We wanted our website to look like a real online newspaper, so we looked at many current news sites (e.g., CNN and The Washington Post.) Each of them had an article right on the home page with lots of photos, plus other links to articles. Some of them had video links and all of them had lots of advertisements.

We had so much fun thinking of ads. They might be a little quirky, but they were fun. Some of them are actually based in real science!