Tuesday, May 24th

Class Hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Cronin

Notes

• Tuesday!
• As we are all going to sign up for a WordPress account this morning (from the same IP account), it all could blow up in our faces. Let’s hope for the best.

9:40 Attendance and Article

9:45 Nineteen Eighty-Four

10:05 Web Design

• Content Management Systems
  • After your site is built and ready to be simply USED by a client, using a CMS can make a lot of sense. After all your clients aren’t likely smart enough to jump into code to update their sites.
  • CMS’s can be limiting, but help automate a lot of processes. Some programmers hate them as they feel like you are programming on rails, as compared to the full freedom and control of custom code.
  • CMS’s also have many users so there are plugins, security fixes, and themes (designs) which many people contribute to.
  • WordPress is an industry standard, and it helps run the back end of CAWD.
  • Free to use on hosted / branded sites like WordPress.com
  • CMS’s aimed at Web Designers and Developers like WordPress.org

This week we are going to work with WordPress.com – which will give us a great introduction to using CMS’s / WordPress.

Next week we will install the real WordPress software from WordPress.org using Xampp, just like you would if you were running a real web server.

So, let’s give this a shot?

10:35 Morning Break (10 minutes)

• 10 Minutes break – you have to exit the room.
• When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

10:45 Critiques

gSample will be giving constructive criticism today. Pick out one thing that works, and one thing to improve upon in the future.

11:30 Study Guide

When complete, use the rest of the morning for production:

• Final Portrait
• Final Agency
• Missing CAWD work

12:15 Lunch (30 Minutes)

• No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
• You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:45 Attendance and Article

12:50 Mindfulness and Databases

1:10 Afternoon Break (10 minutes)

• 10 Minutes break – you have to exit the room.
• When the door near the TV is open, you are welcome to come back in.

1:20 Afternoon Production

• Week 36 Agency
  • jpgs or mp4
• DH36: Final Portrait
  • in “dh” folder as “index.html”

1:55 Dailies

2:00 Dismissal