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UCL, Information Studies: Internet Technologies (INSTG0017)

Scripting, Databases and Weblogs:
Part II, Tutorial

Rudolf Ammann, 30 Nov 2009

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Please follow these instructions:

  1. Go to Wordpress.com and create an account
  2. In your Wordpress admin panel (aka Dashboard), go to Settings at the bottom of the left sidebar and change Blog Title and Tagline to suit your taste. Make sure your first name and surname initial are included in the tagline, so Melissa can identify your postings.
  3. Delete the "Hello World!" post your blog comes with and write a short post yourself; in that post, complain about the weather or write whatever comes to mind -- just to get the hang of posting. Make sure you tag this post and the next ones with G0017.
  4. Follow Melissa's instructions:

    Over the past few weeks we have looked at many websites, including articles and tools, which are used to evaluate websites. Choose one tool (which is available either online or to download and use offline) that you found very useful, and write a paragraph introducing its main features to those who are interested in web design and evaluation, which will feature on your blog as a blog post. Make sure that you link to the tool in question. Then, choose one interesting article that you have read over the past few weeks that you found particularly interesting, and write a one paragraph summarising its main points, and post this as a separate post on your blog.

  5. Make sure you tag your posts with "G0017" (or 'g0017', this makes no difference) and check in on the work of others using the Wordpress G0017 tag aggregation page. Note that in Wordpress, "categories" and "tags" are virtually the same thing, which is a bit confusing. If it's any help, here's a screengrab of the tagging and categorising widgets in the right sidebar of the Wordpress posting interface. There's an official explanation of the categories vs. tags issue. Use either or both.

Resources

Content Syndication

Further Reading

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Validate: XHTML 1.0, CSS

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