Monday, April 19, 2010

Week 15


While I already finished my senior project, I still need to keep nazdingoo.com up to date. I made a post explaining the installation of the senior show. I still need to take photos of the gallery space to add supplementary pictures to the post.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Week 14


I uploaded my videos to Youtube, which solved the problem of not being able to upload directly to Word Press. Then I simply linked to the videos on my site. Another edit I made to the page was to reduce the number of menu items on the sidebar, reducing the bar's size and making it less distracting and more useful.

Week 13


The next assignment was to make at least ten posts and one page. I used "retroblogging" to make the posts look like I made them in order by changing the post date on each post. The posts themselves document the progress through my senior seminar project from the beginning to current. I also made a video page to include the videos of my animations, but couldn't upload videos to it yet

Week 12


I already knew that I had the theme I was going to use, but still needed to make it more personalized. By editing the images in the theme image folder and saving them, I changed the background picture, as well as all of the small graphics such as menu divider lines and the search bar. Then I went into the code to change the title and subtitle of the site to something more fitting than "My Site". In addition, I added an "About" page which includes my artist's statement.

Week 11


Now that I had my theme, I needed to make three posts to get a better idea of what the theme looked like when used. I made posts about the most recent work I had completed in senior seminar.

Week 10


We were introduced to Word Press themes. The assignment was to find at least three themes that looked interesting to us, and have an idea of what the subject of our final website would be. The best of the themes I found is called "Colourise". I am using this theme to create a site about my art major seminar project.

Week 9


We were assigned to improve the sxu-vac website to make it more complete. We were to select something that was not represented on the website and make a create a post about it, including at least one photograph. I decided to make a page about the faculty offices at the VAC.