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Agenda/Discussion
- Introductions
- Syllabus review
- Collectively: what do we already know?
- DropBox: Introduction to web design
- Discuss project ideas
- Brief Discussion: domain names and hosting services
Lab
- Dropbox: WordPress
- Set up accounts (what is your preferred email?)
- WordPress.com course blog (reading reflections, final project @ sbdesign220.wordpress.com)
- Kathy will demo dashboard, creating a new post, selecting a category, and managing your ID
- Why? to add you to this course site as an author, which gives you experience with multi-author blogs
- Why? to get accustomed to the WordPress interface before setting up self-hosted accounts
- Why? for access to WordPress services such as Akismet, Gravatar, JetPack
- sb-students.slack.com (file sharing and team communication)
github.com (maybe for code assignments)
- WordPress.com course blog (reading reflections, final project @ sbdesign220.wordpress.com)
- Read WP VQSG Ch 2 & 5 &
- Read Why use WordPress
- Post to WordPress.com course blog (category: project) before end of class — two ah-ha’s. Try to connect them to your course goals/project ideas.
Upload a photo and edit the information on your Gravatar.- Purpose > practice with WP and think seriously about what you want to accomplish over the next five weeks
- Post to WordPress.com course blog (category: project) before end of class — two ah-ha’s. Try to connect them to your course goals/project ideas.
- Your learning goals for the course
- Post to WordPress.com course blog (category, project) before end of class
- Purpose > create clear expectations for success and help mold course content
- Must be specific, measurable, do-able in five weeks!
- I need to know if you are Mac or PC (this is on the survey)
- Post to WordPress.com course blog (category, project) before end of class
Next session assignments
- Read/resources: (see main page, due before 5 pm on Wednesday)
- Pick website genre; bring 2-3 possible domain names to class. We will register domain name and set up web hosting before the end of class (bring CC)
- We will also be downloading software (FTP, HTML editor)