Explore History - the Vikings
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At Explore History, we provide new tools to delve into the details of history. This site provides:
- A Viking Name Generator
Find out your Viking name while learning about Viking culture.
- Web Development Skills Demonstrated:
- Generating content dynamically with JavaScript (and no JQuery when none is needed)
- Cross Browser Compatible Development (works in Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE > 8)
- Form Verification and processing in JavaScript
- Setting a cookie to users' Viking name
- HTML & CSS
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An Interactive Timeline of the History of the Vikings + Surrounding Areas & Eras
Get context to the Viking Age by seeing the major events of history mapped when in time range.Understand the history of Scandinavia and surrounding areas from Europe to the Mediterraneanto see why the practice of "Going Viking" began, how it changed the world.
- Web Development Skills Demonstrated:
- Generating content dynamically with JavaScript & JQuery.
- Cross Browser Compatible Development (works in Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE > 8, basic mobile compatible with small version on mobile or resize)
- Graphic Design of site graphics
- Site Design (getting a huge amount of information, pictures, videos, etc. in a small page without it feeling crowded)
- HTML & CSS
