Week 26

Overall this past week has been very interesting, what with all that crazy snow we got last weekend and then a sudden family trip to west virginia this week for a funeral. Im now facing two days of makeup work consisting chiefly of tests i need to make up. Overall in cs2 this past week we did a lot of work on our wordpress sites. As of the moment im not entirely sure if im doing it right?, but i got a slideshow working and added some widgets. Im using the nirvana theme which is really colorful and has a really nice slideshow on the home page. It also has a 'read more' button on the slideshow pictures that will take you to the article which is really convenient. I added a calendar on the right hand side and a search bar on the top right of the homepage, i still have to add the search bar to the several tabs i created. I decided to go with a travel theme and put in pictures of different destinations in my slideshow. Overall the site theme is easy to use and there are a lot of support forums and advice online. 

     Challenges faced this past week would include the crazy snow storm that i had to drive through on saturday which was incredibly scary and fun at the same time. The other challenge was working on my wordpress site. I had trouble getting the plugins to showup and changing the size of the pictures in the slideshow.

     Successes would include a safe trip to and from west virginia. Another success was getting the wordpress slideshow to work since at first the slideshow wouldnt automatically switch slides unless it was clicked on. I also had success when i figured how to change the color scheme settings on the site and how to change specific buttons colors and fonts.

     My plans for the upcoming week are to get caught up on school work and get all my makeup tests out of the way. Im also planning to work on 20 time this weekend. Next week im going to try and figure out the plugins thing on wordpress and how exactly that all works.

20 time progress

     My 20 time project has been coming along very well. So far I have been focusing on PLN. My PLN progress so far has been pretty good. I tried to contact 15 or so people, and 3 got back to me. Their answers were really interesting. I asked them to tell about their craziest adventure, some of the answers were really bizarre. I am slowly beginning to gain a feel for the big picture. During my presentation I'm planning to present several travel bloggers websites and show how they designed their sites to attract more viewers and followers. One of my main goals is to try to explain how exactly you get into a career like that and how you make a living at it. 

     At the moment I have been having trouble with making the presentation itself. I'm undecided on how to show the websites and make a slideshow or explain everything....still working on how I'm going to get it to all flow.

     Overall I feel like this project is going to be very interesting and educational.