Web, session 7

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Tonight’s discussion

Post your “comp” three websites to Slack – so I can add them here (assignment for tonight)
Post your domain names to Slack — if the mapping is not working yet, we’ll fix that in lab.
Preparing to build a freelance website (Lynda.com)
- JetPack custom post types
- How to create custom post types (Dummies chapter)
- Social > Dribbble
- Find Lynda at SPL.org. Go to Articles & research >> Databases
- WP Theme “Freedom”
Quiz
Web design principles (comprehensive PPT)
- Create your own ‘summary’ of the UCD design rules from Norman, Nielsen and Shneiderman – we’re starting with slide #42
  - Feedback/status > Seattle Times
  - See comment below for your list
- Gestalt design principles (proximity, similarity – helps users perceive the overall design as opposed to individual elements)
- Contrast (draw attention by changing size, color, direction)
- Balance (a perception of equal weight or distribution; does not have to mean symmetry)
Resources
- Video: Design principles for a better mobile web

Our sites
- J: genericjoe.org
- M: marcelsfolio.com
- T: tariqcreative.com
- Y: aristotadesigns.com
More WordPress customization
- Customize with CSS > Chapter 11 in WPVQSG
- Learning about menus > Chapter 8 in WPVQSG
- More plugins > Chapter 6 in WPVQSG
  - Contact form (lynda)
  - Yoast SEO (lynda)
Use your CodeAcademy account that I gave you (see Slack if you don’t recall the login or pswd) — complete before class on Wednesday
- Lists, fonts — this is the sort of hand-coding you might need to do in WP
- CSS Overview — prep for editing the CSS in WP
- CSS Selectors — prep for editing the CSS in WP
- CSS to organize the page — background for understanding WP templates

Develop three personas for your website, based on our discussion from Wednesday. Post to the student WordPress site before class on Wednesday; category is Project.
Lead discussion // Content Management Systems (Marcel)
Lead discussion // Conducting a competitive analysis (Joe)
- Leading discussion means reading the assignments and doing a little more research on the topic, then preparing a 10 minute (or so) presentation to “teach” your classmates what you think that they need to know about this subject. Post a summary of your talk (or upload your PPT) to the student WordPress site before class. Category is Reading.