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D#6, HW#6-- The major part I like about wordpress is the ability to design the page the way you would like whether it be with themes or by writing the html yourself. This website is great because it gives you a lot of different and ideas about wordpress and how to use it. It explains the information and then also shows you pictures/examples.

ways to improve WP, the navigation suggestions are good for wp.com users since navigation is one of the most important aspects of getting around a site and finding what you want

D#6, HW#6-- I really enjoyed this website for many different reasons. Firstly, for the way t is set up. It is easy to read and enjoyable. They have a main bullet point to look at, and then list and shortly describe different aspects of that bullet point. Also, it covers just about every aspect from design, to performance, to even security. It has a lot of great information!

I like this article because it gives an endless amount of possibilities on how to improve your blog. This article features ideas that will suit any blog. 

This article relates to Chapter 1 of "Basic of Design". It reinforces the 6 steps for a design and gives an in depth example for every step. It helps you analyze and create a purpose; provides you with brainstorming rules to successfully jot down your ideas without judgement; it helps you go through a selection process which relates to thumbnail sketches and comp, etc. 

This website goes over and adds to some important concepts already covered in chapter 6 of the text. Added to some ideas about repetition different ways to use it and how to create it in text and images. Repetition is key to creating unity and consistency in design which is important when trying to grasp a readers attention.

D#6, HW#1-- I liked this website because I have also used it a previous time for balance, so it helps when they continue one from where you were left off. It gives you the chance to see the document being used go through a complete transformation with all of the design elements. They discuss repeating colors and fonts, and then discuss about repeating aesthetics.

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This website gives reason as to why instructors should teach globalization in workplace.

This site which is a blog about how to improve a blog is good because list many many methods on how to improve your blog.

This is a useful site which tells me about the security of this site. This is the reason why I use fake name for many of these programs and release very little personal information. Several of the other sites talk about upgrades of this program with plugins. This site advises against it and how to set up stronger passwords and not to link personal MySQL server to connect remotely if working on a project with another computer. So updated security is essential and avoiding 3rd party plugins can be important.

This site helps tidy up and customize your wordpress to look unique but I have to say after reading information from http://interconnectit.com/679/a-common-sense-wordpress-security-primer/ , I prefer not to use 3rd party plugins. A lot of this is coded customization like how Myspace.com first use to be.

This website gives every fact you could want to know about how to design, work, and customize your WordPress page. It also gives information on how WordPress started and what it is. This is the 411 website if you are ever having questions about WordPress.

This is a good website to show you how to design your WordPress page. It gives lots of tutorials, and also has a list of questions that are answered that a lot of people ask.

A whole site dedicated to using Wordpress! There are so many themes that it's incredibly difficult to choose!  This site suggests going through the various view options, such as the front page view, single page view, and the comments, and them comparing how each appear. Is the sidebar present in all views or just some? Does the header change, etc.? The author of this site suggests going through and investigating every aspect of the new theme. The site also lists the various layout options and also suggests that content match theme. What impression do I wish my audience to have?

This site offers 110 suggestions made by actual bloggers on how to improve a blog! While a number of them cannot be applied to my course blog (I'm not collaborating with anyone else, for example), there was still plenty of relevant advice. Even though I am given the topics to cover, I can still let my own personality come through. This relates to the course outcome of performance; a blog needs to feel like it was written by a human being and not by a robot.  I could also start adding videos that contribute to my audience's understanding. I know that the sample rhetoric on the town assignment included a video of the advertisement the student had analyzed. Another good suggestion is to break up the paragraphs, which I try to do, or use bullet points. Another blogger suggests using subheads.

I really like this website because it gives 30 different options of what you can do to your blog to make it better. For example you can get the plugin to allow icons for subscription like twitter and emails. You can also get newsletter widget and post videos and or photos.

I like this website because has examples of color schemes that go well together. This is helpful for my peers and myself when redo our blogs.

This is a good website on how you can design your wordpress with different animation and gives you tips on how to improve your blog.  This is a good website because it provides a lot of themes that I personally haven't seen before.  

Teaches you how to style author's comments, have a custom gravatar, and how to use the footer space of your page effectively! Very nifty. : )

Teaches you how to customize wordpress with different themes and plugins.

User experience (UX) slide show from WordCamp. Has a lot of good tips on addons that are worth paying for, and how that frees you up to focus on content.

This is a complete video of one talk at WordCamp Phoenix/Chandler. It is about 45 minutes long. She starts out by showing various "one-page" designs. This is really helpful because it opens up so many possibilities. I wish I could have attended WordCamp, but I had a conflict. One is scheduled here for next year.

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