Brief: Finish the tutorial, start thinking of a blog
Hi Class.
Next week I will unfortunately not be with you, I will be replaced by Michael Mandibeg, a new media artist, design educator and web developer who will be introducing you to the behind the scenes of WordPress.
We will give our tutorial another week so we can feel good about moving to the next assignment and knowing we have learned some CSS while we were at it. We will also setup our hosting plan and install Wordpress. And we’ll also start research towards our final project involving infiltrating a real open source project and giving our Graphic Eye for the Open Source Guy.
So:
- If you still need to, finish your tutorial CSS layout. Use the Blueprint mailinglist and our mailing list to bounce ideas instead of slamming your head agains the keyboard.
- Choose the theme for your Wordpress theme:
- What kind of blog is it? (if it’s even a blog…)
- Who is it for?
- What are the functions it should fulfill?
- Pick three inspiration sources one for content, one for structure and one for presentation.
- Go theme hunting through the thousands of free-software themes out there on the internet. Post three of them to our blog in the form of a thumbnail + a links to the theme page.
- Install the The latest Wordpress release on your site:
- Follow the one click install id you’re on any of these (and others) that provide it.
- Or the step by step 5 minute install tutorial on Wordpress.org or the visual tutorial over here.
- Next week Michael will show you around the nuts and bolts of Wordpress, so make sure you’re prepared.
- Start searching for an open source project to contribute to.
