Week Four (MGDP2060)

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

See also Week Four Exercises (MGDP2060).

In the news

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Review topics

• Title (HTML)

WordPress themes

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: any type of website

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]

Demonstrations

• WordPress installation
• phpMyAdmin - browser-based database management tool

Vocabulary

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Complete list: Vocabulary (MGDP2060).

Exercises

• Week Four Exercises (MGDP2060)

See also

• Web Design and Development III (MGDP2060)