Web, session 9

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Tonight’s discussion

• Certificate of Honors
• Discussion readings //
  • SEO (Tariq)
    • Seattle Times Social (ugh)
  • Social media integration (Yorlanda)
  • 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.
• LinkedIn Case Study
• Charleston Case Study (video)
• Lecture (PPT)
• Examples of student work (shared folder)

From Wednesday lab

• More plugins
  • Limit Login Attempts (which one did you pick?)
• More themes
  • Everyone install WP Theme “Freedom”

For Monday

• Post project overview to the student WordPress site before class on Wednesday; category is Project.
  Joe / Marcel / Tariq / Yorlanda
  Personas only post : Joe / Marcel / Tariq / Yorlanda
  Contents
  • Personas
  • Site purpose // audience // content plan
  • Theme selected (possible that it can change again!) and why
  • Plugins used (and why)
    • Everyone should have Akismet, Jetpack
    • Everyone should have an SEO plugin, a backup plugin, a security plugin, a social plugin (can use Jetpack for these features – if so, say so)
• For Monday – your site should have a skeleton, pages framed and published with blurbs explaining what content is coming

Lab

• Explore the “customizer” on WP Theme “Freedom”
• Customize CSS on WP Theme “Freedom”
• Provide peer feedback on everyone’s project overview > student WordPress site
• Work on projects

 

Next session assignments

• Final lecture.
• Final quiz.
• Presentations/projects due.
  • Post presentations to class WP site before 6 pm.
  • Post final projects to class WP site before 11 pm.