DUE Tuesday, Apr 24 – 6 points
(Wednesday NOON deadline)

• Gradebook Declaration: I have published a blog post on my course blog that is between 300 and 1000 words long about my presentation for my final project. I have spellchecked and proofread the post. I have made a conscious effort to employ the techniques we discussed for writing better content for the web.

You will be giving your presentations for your final project in class on Friday. For this assignment, you will need to create a post in your course blog discussing your upcoming presentation; the goal is to get you prepared for giving that presentation. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Read back through your project planning posts:
  • What were your site objectives?
  • Who was your intended audience?
  • How does your design appeal to that audience?
  • How does the content and functionality of your site aim to meet those objectives?
  • How did you pick your domain name? How do you imagine people getting to your site?
• What specific topics from class changed the way you look at the web and affected how you built your final project?
  • Personal branding?
  • Corporate blogging? Communities?
  • Writing for the web?
  • Usability? Accessibility?
  • Browser tools? Web standards?
• What were your experiences with WordPress?
  • Was it easy or difficult to publish content and configure the site the way you wanted it?
  • Could you easily find good themes? Was it easy to understand how to tweak it?
  • What specific plugins did you use that added functionality essential to your site objectives?
• Did you learn any technical skills in class that you used or extended in your final project?
  • Did you hand-craft HTML and CSS for a certain page or section on your site?
  • Did you modify the HTML, CSS, PHP, or JavaScript of your theme?
  • Did you write a custom page template?
  • Did you write a WordPress plugin?
  • Did you think you hated code but now realize that you love it? Or did you want to be a professional web developer but now realize that you do not?
• Scott Berkun emphasizes that storytelling is the most important thing we do as human beings. Do you have any good stories to tell about the process of building your web site?
  • Did you stumble on a perfect plugin or theme?
  • Could you not get the domain name you originally wanted but accidentally stumbled on a better one?
  • What challenges did you face and have to overcome? (Did you spend twelve hours making an animated favicon? Or redesign the header for your site a thousand times?)
• Where will you go with this next?
  • Is this a site you plan to run even after class is over? If so, what are your plans to improve it?
  • Do you have new ideas for other web sites you want to build next?
  • Do you plan to apply the skills you learned working on this project to other areas of your life, maybe in a project for another class or at work?

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Once you have completed this assignment, make your gradebook declaration.

DUE Tuesday, Apr 24 – 6 points
(Wednesday NOON deadline)