Difference between revisions of "Week Four (MGDP2060)"

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This article lists topics for week four of Web Design and Development III (MGDP2060).

In WordPress, a theme provides the HTML and CSS (the front end) which WordPress will use when generating web pages.

Many free themes are available, along with commercial themes.

You can create your own WordPress theme; we will do so in this class.

WordPress was originally written as blog software, but you can make any type of website with WordPress,

Blogging can be omitted altogether
Blogging can be re-branded as "News" or whatever, can appear on interior page(s) rather than home page.
Custom post types allow you to specify new post types, which behave like blog posts, but are customized to your subject matter
- For example, profiles -- see [ Mondovi Dental]

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 * [http://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/09/02/222226/you-dont-have-to-be-good-at-math-to-learn-to-code?sdsrc=popbyskid You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code] @ Slashdot
-* [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/06/wikipedia-founder-backs-sites-systems-after-extortion-scam Wikipedia founder backs site's systems after extortion scam] - "[[Jimmy Wales]] says system is secure after users posed as senior editors and demanded payment from businesses"
+* [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/06/wikipedia-founder-backs-sites-systems-after-extortion-scam Wikipedia founder backs site's systems after extortion scam] - "[[Jimmy Wales]] says system is secure after users posed as senior editors and demanded payment from businesses" @ The Guardian
 * [http://boingboing.net/2015/09/08/your-baby-monitor-is-an-intern.html Your baby monitor is an Internet-connected spycam vulnerable to voyeurs and crooks] @ [[BoingBoing]]