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A website is a collection of web pages, videos, images that are addressed in an Internet Protocol – based network and with an IP address or common domain name . A web site is accessible via a private local area network or a network like the Internet and is hosted on several web servers. It is written in plain text and you can consider it a document. Suitable markup anchors help incorporate elements from other websites. Web pages are transported and accessed with HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol which in order to provide privacy and security may employ HTTPS –HTTP Secure. The world Wide Web is made of all the web sites. Homepage is URL –Uniform Resource Locator.

Adolescence is the period of transition of mental and physical development that turn the child into an adult. This transition involves psychological, social and biological changes. You are considered a teenager if you have 13 years old and up to 17.

Notable changes in mood, known as mood swings are associated with adolescent psychology. Emotional, cognitive and attitudinal changes take place during this period and make a difficult period for the teenager as well for his/her parents. A substantial impact of the developing minds of teenagers is their home and the notions that were implemented from their early childhood. During the adolescence period , teens are confused, they don’t know to make the difference between right and wrong.



Here are some cool websites for teenagers and a short description of them:

-         Exchanges Canada – exchange programs and experience the diversity of languages, communities and cultures.

-         TeenOutReach.com – chat, school tutorials and personal advice

-         AIDS Information for Teenagers – ways of becoming infected, what causes AIDS, injected drug, what activities are safe

-         Amigos – place where Hispanic teens share swap experiences,  stories, ask questions and find information

-         BeeTrendy.com – information on trends, styles, games, news and more

-         Bolt – features and news, chat, email, message boards

-         ChannelOne.com – offers news for global community, classroom and entertainment

-         Cheekfreak – get help with post art, problems

-         CyberIsle – youth health information on sex, smoking, alcohol, drugs. Also including discussion groups, graffiti wall, quizzes and games



-         Dallas City Kids – complete guide with places to see, things to do

-         First Cut – via a chat room and a bulletin board teens interact with each other

-         FitTeen – dedicated to weight training, fitness, nutrition and aerobics

-         Foster Club – contests, information, discussion for foster kids

-         FreeThinkersSociety – broadens perspectives to minimize ignorance and prejudice and improves communication

-         Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain – influence teachers and parents to understand why adolescence behave the way they do.

-         Go4GoWeb – features beauty tips, games, message board and homework help

-         High School Cyberpals – similar interests of high school students

-         High School Underground – high school life’s frustrations

-         High School Nation - comment upon teachers



-         How to be Popular in High School – thoughts about fitting and popularity

-         My future – college and carrier information

-         New Teen Drivers – tips for new and young drivers: how to recognize fatigue, driving in bad weather

-         Once Were Heroes – 20^th century British youth culture

-         Teen Think Tanks of America – brainstorming the prevention and causes of school violence

Cool websites for teenagers must be very interesting because teens get bored quickly. This kind of websites must supply many interactive features in a simple way, but not in a childish way. Teens have a wired lifestyle and researches show that they are using internet for: hobbies, school assignments, news, entertainment , e-commerce and they also learn about health issues that they are embarrassed top talk about.

Although many think that teens are techno wizards the studies contradict that. In fact adults know more how to use complex sites. The poor performance of teens is influenced by: less sophisticated research strategies, insufficient reading skills and lower patience level. Teens pay more attention to the visual aspect of the sites that adults do. Teens want to be stimulated because they have a short attention span. You can never keep teens on your site if it is boring or are difficult to figure out. One funny aspect is that teens don’t like small fonts. And what makes this funny is the fact that the ones that made the study thought that only old users don’t like small fonts because of the bad eyesight and they also thought that websites are made with small fonts because the ones that created them were young people with good eyesight.



Teens are attracted by forms for providing feed-back, online quizzes, games, online voting, message boards, sharing pictures, forums for advices. Teens express themselves in many ways. Teens are very different from children and adults.

The studies show that teens stay in front of the computer from 5 to 10 hour per week. 83% of teenagers are online. Teens prefer web sites that adults like. Such as: Wikipedia, Yahoo, Google. This is what teens like to do on their computers: play computer games, board games, vehicle racing, action figures, play sets, draw and win prizes or see television episodes that they missed. Today teens are demanding and well informed. Only new and interesting websites can interact this new generation of teens.  If you belong to the older generation , it is easy to misunderstand them.