To start my coursework off, I drew out a makeshift flow chart with different steps on it which allowed me to have an organised method in completing each of the different tasks. The next lecture we had, we were going through the material and it turns out this method has a professional term in the industry called \u2018The Waterfall Method\u2019. The basics of the chart showed that what I would do is write both the reviews, the \u2018about\u2019 page and the report before I\u2019d even considered creating the website itself. Therefore, the main bulk of all the work can be done within the early stages allowing me to concentrate more on the website design and to possibly improve on my reviews as I learn more content. When going through this it made sense to do the \u2018about\u2019 page first and then go on to do both the reviews of the education services. Once I completed that, I started the report but only half way finished it since I had to write about the website design as well.<\/p>\n
With the entire assignment, the \u2018less complicated\u2019 bits were writing the pages seeing as though it wasn\u2019t new to me and it\u2019s with software that I\u2019m very familiar with. The more challenging side to writing the reviews was phrasing what you wanted to say in a professional manner and being concise at the same time. The other quite difficult process I personally found was referencing information or quotes that I had used during the reviews.<\/p>\n
Following on from this idea of the less complicated tasks, we come to the more complicated tasks. I found WordPress to be quite a difficult website to function in the way that the pages would either show up everywhere, or nowhere. Creating the side bar function was also a challenge because I thought that I could just jump right in at the deep end and kind of trial and error my way through working the processes. Turns out this wasn\u2019t the case and once I reset the whole thing, I looked over at some tutorials online and figured out how to at least get the \u2018pages\u2019 showing in a menu. As a long list of problems, I feel that the first was that even when you edit the page and press \u2018Save and Submit\u2019 the page itself doesn\u2019t update. So, you have to go and visit the site to have a look at what changes you made. I found it easier to either write down on paper what I was doing then go back and see the changes to fully understand what I just did or I kept a constant tab open of the old site and then created a new tab with \u2018updated\u2019 site. The final big problem that I encountered was making the static page work. For some reason, it wouldn\u2019t stay as what I wanted so again I had to look at the online resources to figure out how to make it work and very quickly I found a tutorial showing me what to do.<\/p>\n
Overall, though I encountered several problems with WordPress, I feel that because it has such an extensive community the process was made a lot easier with the vast amounts of tutorials. Another great thing is that the tutorials can be on YouTube or direct from WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To start my coursework off, I drew out a makeshift flow chart with different steps on it which allowed me to have an organised method in completing each of the different tasks. The next lecture we had, we were going … Continue reading