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Final Website Migrated, Plugins and Code Snippet Choices - Publishing Task 3

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  Step-by-step Guide to Migrate Wordpress Site to a New Host Site Migration: When it came to moving my site, I used an plugin known as All-in-One WP Migration, as I found it to be a quick and hassle free method of exporting my site. This plugin allowed me to download the site I created through the localhost. After which I went onto Infinity Free, and created a domain for the site.  After getting the verification for the site approved, I downloaded Softaculous to download a plugin on Infinity Free that allowed me to upload my downloaded file of the localhost. A difficulty I encountered was my file size being over the max amount for creating a free site. The only solution I had was to lower the size of the export by removing some plugins. Luckily I was able to achieve that and upload the file under the maxium file size. I did this as I had no option to pay for the subscription. Link to Site:  http://mediacritic.great-site.net/ My site Plugins/Code Snippets/Theme: For my sit...
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UX Goals - Publishing Task 2

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  Ask An Expert: What is User Experience (UX) Design? Throughout this semester, my UX Design and CMS skills have steadily improved, giving me confidence as I'm soon to start my CA2. I will have to create a Website and apply my UX design skills. Below you will find how I plan to approach creating this website. What I'll Build: Ars Technica For CA2 I'll be building a blog in which I review games similar to that of Metacritic but for video games. I can't just simply throw text at the page though and expect users to remain interested, which is were by UX Design features come in. The two features I plan to use are taken from Receptional and Web Style Guide respectively and are as follows: Include headings and subheadings for content. These headings and subheadings will allow for the content to be broken up, and make the information look more concise and legible.  The headings and subheadings will also allow me to break the content into a hierachy, allowing user who are gla...
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User Experience (UX) Explained for Best Practice Website Creation

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 User Experience (UX) Explained for Best Practice Website Creation How UX Can Be Improved: 5 Simple Steps - PC Tech Magazine For my research into creating the best user expierence for a website, I decided to dive into the many talks offered through Adobe MAX to hear from industry professionals, on how they best tackle making a good content management system. Meet the MAX Speaker: Fergie - Adobe I chose to watch  Meet the MAX Speaker: Fergie , which goes through how expierence designer, Rebecca Ferguson, goes through her whole project process of  UX and UI design. She starts off by asking her clients what they truly want to achieve, as though they may have a website for their product, the site may not be well tailored to displaying that product and giving customers details on the product, thus hindering sales and visitors to the site. They may also suffer from a lack of brand awareness, making people more skeptical about purchasing from the site due to their lack of prior ...
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