Project IV

Introduction

The goal of this assignment is to create a beautiful, effective, user-friendly news website using WordPress.

  • Build a news website using a WordPress
  • Value: 15% of grade
  • Project due by the final exam period

Todo

  • Find 10 articles that fall within a theme (Music, Politics, Charity, etc)
  • Practice using WordPress by transferring over text and photo content from the articles
  • Make sure to link the original article at the bottom
  • Organize those articles into two subcategories (e.g. if Music was the theme, Indie and Rap)
  • Use an appropriate theme, customize it as you see fit
  • Use widgets where appropriate (think carousel, contact form, etc)
  • Make a great home page experience where users can easily discover content
  • Make an about page, describing the kind of content this news websites aims to cover / aggregate
  • Brand the website with colors and logo (make your own or pick a mock one)

Submission

You don’t need to submit anything because I already know the URL to your WordPress site.