Thomas Korolchuk
Anup Parajuli
CIS 1410-55
13 December 2018

Final Project Report

Description

A portfolio site to display drawings/paintings and programming/webdev work.

Site Map

Reflection

Overall this project was satisfying to work on, I enjoyed deciding on the topic for the website (though ultimately stuck with my original plan for a kind of ‘general portfolio’). WordPress makes things relatively easy, but I would have preferred finding a theme that was closer to what I wanted without needing as much CSS changes–or just creating a new theme based on one that’s close enough. Related to that, there are some things left to change in the CSS which are a bit annoying visually, such as the drop-down menu colors (fixed, though blue-link hover still needs fixing).

I would liked to have included more examples of work, but there’s enough for the moment and I can add more anytime. Oh, and I would’ve liked to have had an easier time with the presentation recording (lots of audio problems and issues w/ video editor).

Requirements (table of contents)

1. Minimum length of website: 6-10 complete web pages.
   13 total (3 blog posts, 10 static pages)
2. Demonstrate the usage of themes, plugins of your choice.
   Theme is Luck For All. Active plugins are Anti-spam, Automatic Plugin Updates, Classic Editor, Jetpack, Loginizer, Wordfence Security, and Yoast SEO.
3. Create a layout design of your choice. However, make it look professional and 
4. You can use any background color or images. Try to use a variety of fonts and font colors in your pages but don’t overdo them!
   Customized CSS of theme, “mildly extensively” (on the threshold of significant theme file alterations, but everything managed to mostly stay contained to the Additional CSS insertion). Background image is customized, personal logo/watermark/signature in title header, and fonts/color customized for links and headings.
5. Design the site navigation system using menus/submenus.
   5 menu items, 2 with dropdown submenus.
6. Add an appropriate title, list of keywords and description for each page.
   Handled by Yoast SEO plugin.
7. Each page must have page title, header, and footer sections. The footer gives credit to you for the work you have done. Your contact information must have at least email address as a hyperlink. In addition to your contact information, use the special character for the copyright symbol along with information stating you are the author of the website.
   All pages have a title (save for homepage–though that’s on purpose), header/nav area is consistent site-wide, and footer w/ copyright is displayed on all pages.
8. Create at least one page where users can post comments.
   Blog posts have comments enabled.
9. Add the instructor as an author/contributor.
   
10. Minimum number of links: 5-10 of related external web site links. All links must work and must be “decent” links.
    Resources and Useful Sites blog post contains 8 external links. Webpages page (that phrasing is not pleasant) also contains 2 somewhat-external links.
11. You must use at least three levels of headings H1…H6. You could use different colors for the headings if you want.
    Many levels of headings have been used throughout the site.
12. Use at least one bulleted list, and one ordered list.
    There is an unordered list on the previously mentioned “resources” blog post, and this page itself has an ordered list.
13. Create a landing page that uses at least one form with selection lists, radio buttons and text boxes.
    Landing page is found here.
14. Use of sound, multimedia: Create an image slider or slideshow, gallery and embed a video. All multimedia must have alternate text.
    Blog post contains video, gallery pages have a gallery and a slideshow, all gallery images have complete meta-information.
15. Create sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and any other you choose.
    Blog posts have sharing buttons, see bottom of this post.
16. Demonstrate the use of SEO tools.
    Jetpack SEO options (free) have been enabled, and the Yoast SEO plugin has been lightly configured for SEO appropriate to a site like this.
17. Your website needs to be responsive.
    Layout is responsive, tested w/ Chrome webIDE and on mobile device.
18. Host your website in a subdomain of your domain name.
    Hosted on portfolio subdomain of tokorol.com.
19. You will demonstrate your project to the class and the class gets a chance to give you feedback. Submit the URL of your website and post it in the discussion board for others to see and write comments.
    Post was made and video is embedded below.

Presentation Video

Re-encoding can definitely be time consuming.