Making a website was our first project in the XE404 module, it will be used as a method of documenting our progress. Searching around WordPress themes i choose the Aaron theme, i think that the website look more professional with this one.
After the decision about the theme i had to choose one representative image and the background color that i would use for it. I choose the blue because is being proven by science that blue can have a sedative effect, calm the mind and can actually reduce blood pressure and body temperature. Human resources specialists propose blue for an interview or first meeting – which inspires trust, maturity and reliability.
This is the shade of blue that i used.
I added also this header background image that i think represent the soul of the XE404 module, a performant and appealing electronic component!
How to add contents?
Here is where the blog takes form, inside this internal area we can add contents to our pages or posts.
If you click edit post (up on the left) on the page that you want to modify
you will see the actual page writing.
For a more complete website we need to follow some rules, the first one is to add categories and menus for share the contents in an easyest way.
A good explaination of what a diagram for a website is:
As i was saying before we need categories, menus and pages for populate our website.
For this we need to go in the customise section.
Here we can see all the aspects for customise our website.
We’re gonna click on the menu section in order to add posts and pages.
These are all my pages, and if you look properly you will see that all the week posts for XE are all under the XE404 page.
If we want to add a new post we have to click on add items
At this point you can choose if you want to add a page or a post.
Then you can go into the dashboard section that is to the left of the customise one, and you can see all the pages, posts and categories and you can modify them.
All my pages in this image.
How to add media?
Let’ s say that you want to add images or videos in your website, it is really easy to do, in the same page where we are adding text to our post you will see the add media section.
Then you have to click on upload, and you have to check in you computer the image file that you want to add to the post. After this just click on insert into post.
Adding a video is even more easy, i just click on insert video from URL, in the same page, and then i have to paste a video from youtube or somewhere else and it will be added to the page.
Website icon
A website icon is important in a website, it represent your brand image or logo. I added it from the same customise menu / site identity / site icon
How the site icon look like.
Widgets
A widget is an element of a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays information or provides a specific way for a user to interact with the operating system or an application.
Widgets include icons, pull-down menus, buttons, selection boxes, progress indicators, on-off checkmarks, scroll bars, windows, window edges (that let you resize the window), toggle buttons, form, and many other devices for displaying information and for inviting, accepting, and responding to user actions.
