A Guide to Building Interactive History Websites
Overview Documents
A Step By Step Guide to Building Interactive History Websites
Sample Prompts
These are example prompts used with Claude or other AI assistants to generate various components of this heritage website. Each demonstrates effective prompting techniques for different content types.
Planning and Structure
Personas - Prompt for generating detailed user personas for a heritage website. Creates profiles of different visitor types (genealogists, educators, students, tourists) with their goals, questions, and usage patterns. Essential for understanding your audience and prioritizing content.
Site Layout - Prompt for generating an information architecture and navigation structure based on persona analysis. Organizes content to serve the most frequent visitors while remaining accessible to all users.
Content Generation
Chapter Content - Prompt for generating comprehensive chapter text at appropriate reading levels (10th grade). Requests tables, lists, images, diagrams, and glossary links throughout the content.
Timeline Chapter Text - Specialized prompt for generating a timeline-focused chapter with historical events organized chronologically. Uses a timeline.json file as source material.
FAQs - Prompt for generating 100 frequently asked questions organized by category. Targets specific reading level and provides structured question-answer format with level-4 headers.
Quiz - Prompt for generating interactive quizzes to test comprehension of historical content. (Note: This file appears to be a stub - may need completion)
Interactive Elements
Migration Map - Prompt for creating an interactive Leaflet.js map showing migration patterns from Scotland through Ireland to North America. Includes animated routes with "Show Migration" button and color-coded markers.
Ulster Plantation Map - Prompt for generating a focused map of Northern Ireland counties using Leaflet JavaScript library. Highlights specific Ulster counties with detailed borders.
Graphic Novel Generation - Detailed prompt for creating a 14-panel graphic novel explaining the Ulster Plantation and Scotch-Irish migration. Includes specific panel descriptions, image generation instructions, and narrative text format.