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Agenda/Discussion

• Introductions
• Syllabus review
• Collectively: what do we already know?
  • Survey
  • Quiz (not for grading, for info only – post PDF of answers page to Slack)
• 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)
• 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
• 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)

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)