14 CMS: WordPress / Final Review

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Week 14
12/10

Content Management Systems The basis of most professional websites is a CMS. We will take a look at how a WordPress template pulls together different PHP modules into a single HTML page, and how the CSS controls the look of the site. Activity: Modify a WordPress template, using it as the basis for our own design. Activity: 15 minutes will be taken to complete on-line student evaluations. Activity: In-class final Workshop #3.

Homework

You will be working on your final and other assignments. If you have extra time on your hands, you can build a WordPress template.

Materials

Additional materials for this unit can be found by following these links:

Goal

The goal of this unit is to:

  • Everyone is pretty busy with their finals, but I thought to wrap up the course with a guided tour of a WordPress template.
  • look at how PHP creates the WordPress Website out of different sections.
  • take a detailed look at the WordPress style sheet.

Outcomes

At the end of this unit, students will have:

  • been exposed to a content management system (CMS).
  • worked through WordPress template.
  • understood how PHP combines the page out of disparate files.
  • will have been helped with any outstanding issues remaining in their final project.

Step-by-Step

20 Review homework and answer questions.
40 Show and Tell: Content management System — WordPress: new site

15 Student Evaluations: I will leave the room while you fill out the evaluations.
10 Break
80 In Class Help on the Final

News and External Resources

Sources of information that will enrich your knowledge about web design and will help you to stay current:

  1. Move the Web Forward is the hub for how to engage the web community once you have joined it. You have all joined this community by now, and this will be a continually updated resource at the center of the web design universe.
  2. Changing the World! Web Governance
  3. Paul Irish Industry leader.
  4. Eric Meyer The original Industry Leader that helped bring in Standards based web design.
  5. Jeff Zeldman Another industry leaders that helped bring in standards based web design.

There are, of course, many more resources, but in this ever changing fast moving web culture, you can count on these to move the web forward. This will keep you going.

  1. One last article that introduces freelance bidding sites.

    As long as you are a student, your courses provide you with projects, but if you are graduating, I highly recommend checking these sites out, and doing a number of projects, if not for the money, for the experience, so that you can build up your portfolio.

Definitions

These are the terms that participants should be familiar with during this unit: