The problem was with images. It was easy to copy and paste the text, but word images do not transfer to Word Press. So I had to screen grab the image. You do this by opening your word document, then holding down the apple key, shift & 4. You then can crop the image and save it to the desktop. Then you can upload the image from there.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Uploading Content To The Site
Today I started uploading my content to the site. Obviously I was met with a few problems. My main problem was with images. As worked on my content from home, I did so on word. I then saved my work to my hard drive, and brought my work into uni that way.
Mon 19th Lesson
We started today off with an editorial meeting. During this meeting one of our biggest problems is that we are just spending too much time with the look of the site. We are 4 weeks in to this project, yet the theme we were originally using not everybody in the group is happy with.
I like the theme, as I feel it is a good template we can start with. I like the navigation, as it is easy to use. I also like the slider feature that comes with this theme, as I like the way it flashes through the latest news on our site. I think we need to remember that that it is more about the content than the web design. I think we may have forgotten this. I think the reason this has happened we just want to have a good looking site.
At the end of the meeting, the people from the group who were present decided that we will keep our original theme, although this may change by next week!
We also talked about the twitter account we wanted to have for our site. We now have an account open for the site. But decided that in around 2 weeks, when we will be 6 weeks into the project we will start to update the account properly then. As then hopefully the site will have a set theme and a lot more content.
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
5th Octobers Lecture
We started with clearing our website of the dummy content. As last week we played around and filled the site with dummy content. This ended up being a fairly long process as we hoped we there would be a way to just export all, but there wasn't. So we had to deleted page by page. Yet when deleted page by page the slider accidently got deleted from our template, fortunatly Simon was in and helped us restore it.
During this lesson Simon gave me a few cut outs from the London Lite about some upcoming Lifestyle trends; it reminded me that I must start especially looking out for upcoming lifestyle trends.
We then decided to all add our categorises, mine being Lifestyle.
We also looked at CSS again today. Looking at the style sheet and changing some of the elements of the site. This mean later we can all change our sections, making them suit the categorie and clearly be slightly different.
We also started working on our editorial plan today. We decided as a group we didn’t want the site to have its own blog. I think this is because we all are running separate blogs alongside the site, and just felt this year we wanted to move away from blogs.
We then added a few test post to the site, so we could practice categorising them. We then had a few problems. First off all when adding content to the site, only one category can appear on the slider at one time. This doesn’t work for us, as we want the slider to have the latest uploaded news.
To get around this problem we then added a new category, latest news. We each can then tag our content twice, once being tagged in the latest news. Meaning that the slider will constantly be filled with the latest content. This meant that we had this category at the top menu of our site though, but we plan to try and find it on the style sheet and remove it.
During this lesson Simon gave me a few cut outs from the London Lite about some upcoming Lifestyle trends; it reminded me that I must start especially looking out for upcoming lifestyle trends.
We then decided to all add our categorises, mine being Lifestyle.
We also looked at CSS again today. Looking at the style sheet and changing some of the elements of the site. This mean later we can all change our sections, making them suit the categorie and clearly be slightly different.
We also started working on our editorial plan today. We decided as a group we didn’t want the site to have its own blog. I think this is because we all are running separate blogs alongside the site, and just felt this year we wanted to move away from blogs.
We then added a few test post to the site, so we could practice categorising them. We then had a few problems. First off all when adding content to the site, only one category can appear on the slider at one time. This doesn’t work for us, as we want the slider to have the latest uploaded news.
To get around this problem we then added a new category, latest news. We each can then tag our content twice, once being tagged in the latest news. Meaning that the slider will constantly be filled with the latest content. This meant that we had this category at the top menu of our site though, but we plan to try and find it on the style sheet and remove it.
Monday, 5 October 2009
Technology4Media
As well as setting up google alerts today, I also signed up for Technology4Media.
Technology4Media distributes technology news to the media. The service provides journalists with the latest breaking press releases from technology companies and organisations worldwide, together with access to images, company profiles and archive releases, PR contacts, online research tools and much more. Additionally, our 'Journalist Alert' service allows journalists to advise PRs of all their current needs.
So also I will be sent a daily e-mail from Technology4Media and if anything intertestes me, can write something for the site.
Google Alerts
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. So today I set up an account for 'lifestyle trends'. So now each day I will recieve an e-mail about lifestyle trends.
This is very good idea as I can check everyday for any upcoming intertesting lifestyle trends and then could use any of these potential news stories for the site.
This is very good idea as I can check everyday for any upcoming intertesting lifestyle trends and then could use any of these potential news stories for the site.
Saturday, 3 October 2009
Twitter - share and discover what's happening right now, anywhere in the world.
In a group discussion at the beginning of the week we were talking about promoting our site. Max is very into twitter and thinks that having our site on twitter would be good for the site. Max is in charge of getting the site onto twitter.
Yet as we discussed this I felt I couldn’t really make an input, as I don’t actually have a twitter account and have never used it. So have decided I should now create one.
Obviously I have heard of twitter but just haven’t ever opened account. Being away from home at uni, I use Facebook a lot to stay in contact with my friends from home, many of my close friends don’t have twitter this is probably why I have never joined.
Sign Up Now.
When signing up first you have to enter the usually information about yourself name, email address etc. Including a username, picking a username was pretty hard. Obviously I’m a pretty late joiner on the twitter frenzy so all of my obvious usernames have already been taken. In the end I settled with – southeastsam. Sam being my name, southeast where I’m from.
The sign up is very quick an easy, there is no sending you a validating email or any of that.
Then it gives you the opportunity to add some twitter users you may of heard of. Unfortunately I hadn’t heard of many of them, and the ones I had I didn’t want to follow. You are then taken to the home page. I then added some ‘friends’ to follow. This included Britney Spears, Michael Moore, Ben Stiller and The Official White House twitter page, to name a few. After adding I then can see what everyone has been tweeting about lately. Immediately I see that Paris Hilton is off to bed now and the Derren Brown got drunk last night and is on his way to Leeds.
In a group discussion at the beginning of the week we were talking about promoting our site. Max is very into twitter and thinks that having our site on twitter would be good for the site. Max is in charge of getting the site onto twitter.
Yet as we discussed this I felt I couldn’t really make an input, as I don’t actually have a twitter account and have never used it. So have decided I should now create one.
Obviously I have heard of twitter but just haven’t ever opened account. Being away from home at uni, I use Facebook a lot to stay in contact with my friends from home, many of my close friends don’t have twitter this is probably why I have never joined.
Sign Up Now.
When signing up first you have to enter the usually information about yourself name, email address etc. Including a username, picking a username was pretty hard. Obviously I’m a pretty late joiner on the twitter frenzy so all of my obvious usernames have already been taken. In the end I settled with – southeastsam. Sam being my name, southeast where I’m from.
The sign up is very quick an easy, there is no sending you a validating email or any of that.
Then it gives you the opportunity to add some twitter users you may of heard of. Unfortunately I hadn’t heard of many of them, and the ones I had I didn’t want to follow. You are then taken to the home page. I then added some ‘friends’ to follow. This included Britney Spears, Michael Moore, Ben Stiller and The Official White House twitter page, to name a few. After adding I then can see what everyone has been tweeting about lately. Immediately I see that Paris Hilton is off to bed now and the Derren Brown got drunk last night and is on his way to Leeds.
I think I might start to like this Twitter thing.
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