WBL Seminar #2 Intro Into WordPress

     On 30 Apr 2018 I attended another Noble Desktop seminar for my CTE requirements. This seminar was about WordPress, an open source management system which allows the user to manage content on their website. This seminar gave and introduction through WordPress and gave a walkthrough of the UI and features of WordPress. Before the seminar all I knew about WordPress is that people use it to make blogs and websites as well as making it easy to edit them. After the seminar I had more knowledge about using WordPress's features to build my own websites.

This shot was bad since I was sick

     One of the first things I learned about WordPress were web hosting and running websites on web servers. With WordPress a .com domain is easy and free to use but limited. It only allows you to host your website on WordPress's server. The  .org domain is paid but more flexible and allows you to host your information to any web host you choose. After that I learned how you can create an edit new sites. Most of the work is done by logging into the admin. Once you're logged in you will have the option to create a new site and give it a name. This name can never be used by anyone ever again. Then you'll be able to change the look of your site by editing the headings, theme, content, and images. WordPress starts off with a limited amount of themes but you can add more through plugins or uploading your own themes. This is paid, however, and it allows you to personlize your website more. You can choose when you would like to make a post go public and you can view your posts in chronological order.

I look miserable since I was sick

     This information is important to me as a web designer because it provides me information about a platform I can use to create sites and make them visually appealing. While I can choose to code my site entirely from HTML/CSS and JS I can also make one fast by using WordPress. If  I'm creating a simple site I may not want to deal with coding it all from scratch, so I can just create one in WordPress and optimize it from there. WordPress allows me to easily customize the looks of the site through themes, theme plugins, and the ability to add my own themes. All in all, I see myself using WordPress to create a site where interactivity is something I won't be using too much but appearance and content are things I'll be tinkering the most.