IV.+Site+Construction

This blog was created using Wordpress.com. I tried numerous themes to try and get one with drop-down menus for categories. The one we decided on was Titan. This was after our usability analysis. The theme that we had been using previously was not easy to read. This theme also works better on some computers. The drop-down menus of previous theme we had did not work properly. On the computers I use at work they did not work at all. The tag cloud and the rss feeds on the sidebar were also imposed on each other with our old theme.

Much of the site had to be redone when I realized that there were some sections that should be "pages"(permanent information such as contact info, the about us page etc..), and "categories"(things that will get updated regularly such as Destinations). This made creating posts much easier. I was unsure of how to get new posts into the different sections of the blog. Creating these sections as "categories" made it much simpler.

Once I figured out how to set up the pages and categories, it didnt take long to post the information up. I just had to make sure that I had the posts under the proper category. The first post that I put up needed its own category. It would not let me leave it separate. I decided Miscellaneous would be better title for this category than "Uncategorized", which was Wordpress' original title. It was very easy to post the information and pictures that Patricia found.

The last real issue with creating the blog was my attempt at putting up slideshows. We had wanted to put slideshows for each destination. I created a Flickr account and uploaded the pictures we wanted to use. I then made slideshows of the pictures. I then tried to add the HTML code given for the slideshow. For some reason it would not add the code. I also do not have access to a computer with Photoshop, and was unable to attempt to create a slideshow using that program. We added the creation of slideshows to our Future Plans section. I posted the pictures in the blog just to have them there until I can create a slideshow.

Wordpress is a very easy to use site to blog with. It made things simple for someone who had not done this before. The help department was also very fast in responding to a question I had about something. I would definitely use Wordpress to create another blog.