Week 13

This week we had our workshop on Web design and WordPress. We focus on learning about using WordPress since it's the tool we plan on using to build our site. I have previously had some experience with WordPress; it was one option I looked at when starting this blog. I chose Blogger since I found WordPress confusing and wasn't sure how to use it. WordPress allows anyone to make a sleek site, but the interface isn't always clear. However, this work shows cleared up any confusion I had with WordPress.

Doctor Giroux from UCF's Center for Humanities and Digital Research walked us through WordPress, and we started thinking about what we need from the website. There is a lot to the backend of a website. There are some things I learned during my high school web design class that I remembered such as a responsive site, which is when the website changes size with the size of the device you are viewing it on. We talked about it when in high school, but we used different terms. WordPress has some useful tools for your site, like the Media Center. It allows us to have a central library of images and sources Therefore we have everything gathered in one place and we can place a source on different pages without having to re-upload anything. The media center will be great since we wish to showcase our sources. 

In this meeting, we also thought more about what we want to do with the site. We have been working on the narratives, which is the story of Olustee. Now, we think about what ways we can use a website to present these narratives and sources. A website is a form of storytelling. It guides you through information. We will use our main narratives as the centerpiece and we have discussed possibly using blog posts for things like updates. It's still a work in progress, and we bounced around a few ideas. We will continue to develop ideas and layouts for this site. 

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