Week 15

JordanGroll.com Final Website

Instead of changing my designistic website I decided to create another website. This website will be on my jordangroll.com domain. It features all my websites for easy access. My portfolio website is on my jordan-michael.com domain. For this design I wanted to keep it very simple. I wanted the focus to be on my name and the links to the websites. I really like how it came out. I also added some tooltips that popup when you hover over the copyright in the lower left corner and some of my website links. See it live by clicking here.


I also updated my hub page to make it easy for you to find my websites that I created for this class. To view my hub visit here.

Week 14

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Hacking Wordpress Theme

After choosing a template that I saw that had many of the features I was looking for I started to hack it to make it more how I wanted it to be. I started out by playing around in the setting sections for this theme. There I was able to chose a color scheme that I liked though it still wasn't exactly how I wanted it so I opened some of the images in photoshop and changed them to my liking. I also created my logo in photoshop and added it to the images folder. After doing as much as I could with the settings section I moved to the editor to edit the css. I started by moving the navigation down a few pixels. Then I changed the height of the slider area which actually took a while because of the way it was coded. I also redid the background to be black and redid the little button images that show what item you're currently looking at. After that I changed the footer height. I also changed the width of the whole page because viewing the website on my iphone, the text was right up against the frame so I added space around it so it reads better. After completing the home page I moved on to the blog page where I changed sizes of text and spacing. I also redid the search bar because in the original theme it didn't really look good and also it didn't function correctly. I messed around with other things in the css mainly to space them better/improve graphics.

See the live version here.

Week 13

Wordpress Posts + Pages

For this week I created 10 different posts for by wordpress website that featured different websites I have created. In each post I described different features or info about the websites. After creating the posts I created different pages. The first being the About page which tells you all about me. Then a blog page which I made as a sub navigation under the about page that lists all my posts. I then created a Portfolio page which takes the images from my blog and puts them in a nice, easy to view design. My services was my next page which basically lists the services I offer. The last page I created was my contact page which has info about the company and also a contact form.

Week 12

Wordpress

This week I searched for wordpress themes. I found several that I really liked but the pictures would not show up when I installed the themes. I than found one that I really liked because it looked more corporate which I wanted for my web design company. After finding different themes I installed wordpress on my host using the 5 minute easy install method. My hosting company doesn't have an easy way to install wordpress. I had to create a database where wordpress was to be installed. After that I played around with learning how to create pages and posts.