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Straubhaar Family History Blog

Straubhaar Family History Blog. Julia Mitschke University of Texas, i-School December 7, 2006. Overview. Who – my immediate and extended family Why – to take an existing community of collaborators and provide them with an online forum for sharing stories and photos

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Straubhaar Family History Blog

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  1. Straubhaar Family History Blog Julia Mitschke University of Texas, i-School December 7, 2006

  2. Overview • Who – my immediate and extended family • Why – to take an existing community of collaborators and provide them with an online forum for sharing stories and photos • What – content: text and photos from client • What – resources: WordPress software and other development/planning tools • How – using an existing WordPress Theme, then modifying both CSS and php

  3. Who?

  4. Why? • “The goal for the site would be to permit family members to easily share photos, news and written memories about their common history. ”

  5. What? • Content: • A stock of initial photos and stories from a family history project. • I chunked that content into blog posts that incorporated both photos/stories together.

  6. What? • Resources and Tools • OmniGraffle, CSSEdit, Firefox developer extension, Photoshop • WordPress software • Codex of free WordPress themes

  7. Planning • Concept maps for: • Content organization and hierarchy • Task flow • Design and layout • Content organization II

  8. Content Hierarchy and Labels

  9. Task Flow Mapping

  10. Design and Layout

  11. Organization of Content • “Organizationally, it would be nice to be let people navigate and contribute by family branch or by place/time, like the farms in Kuna or Rupert or recent events in Nampa or Boise.”

  12. Finding a WordPress Theme… • WordPress “Theme” is a collection of CSS and php files that control organization, design and functionality of site • All of the contenders for theme here:

  13. The Winner

  14. Original Template Evil Google AdSense Shows all categories (parent and child) Login/Meta At bottom of page

  15. My WordPress Theme • I altered CSS files, and the sidebar, header and other programming scripts to change design and functionality

  16. Feedback from users No home page link In main menu Can’t see Header or tagline text “Where do I login to post?”

  17. The Straubhaar Family History Blog • http://www.straubhaar-family.org/blog/

  18. Ta-da!

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