{"id":52,"date":"2023-08-01T20:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2023-08-03T21:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T21:07:28","slug":"reflection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This final assignment has been my favorite project so far. The content sparked passion and more importantly I got to try out some stuff fixing my weaker areas of WordPress. I spent more time carefully choosing plugins and managing them to work together for my site rather than take away from it. I found issues in my first sites like my images being too big, I couldn&#8217;t back a site up correctly, and we never spent any time on post&#8217;s comments. I wanted more experience in these areas so I chose to do a WordPress assignment for my final project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site would be the same premise as my Project #3, except I&#8217;d fix those weak points I&#8217;d discussed and add more content. I really do want to showcase this website to potential jobs, so it involves news and stories in the music industry. In this project I got to implement some of the things I learned in my design classes and install a logo for the site. Giving the website its styling is what secured it as the front page of my portfolio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the commerce site, I messed up my backup and lost my site completely. Then I moved my new site wrong and had to make it a third time. I wanted to fix this obvious knowledge gap and understand what I could&#8217;ve done to prevent it. I found many plug-ins that would automatically backup this site for me. UpdraftPlus is the one I decided on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After deciding on my backup Plugin I went to my next issue. The images I gathered were too big and took too long to render. To fix that, I worked with an image optimizer. With the help of the Magical Suite I made some of the wonderful content blocks you see on the home page. And there were a few more I just thought the site needed for functionality: Gallery Box, Easy Share, &amp; Click to Top.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-01-at-4.32.03-PM-1-edited.png\" alt=\"A list of active plugins for this website.\" class=\"wp-image-74\" width=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-01-at-4.32.03-PM-1-edited.png 2598w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-01-at-4.32.03-PM-1-edited-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-01-at-4.32.03-PM-1-edited-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-01-at-4.32.03-PM-1-edited-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-01-at-4.32.03-PM-1-edited-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-01-at-4.32.03-PM-1-edited-2048x1280.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2598px) 100vw, 2598px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0The site wasn\u2019t complete until I got my logo in there. These are my words in these stories so I felt it right to brand them as such. I used the record logo with my name to match the URL, and show the long haul. My dream after career hopping two or three times is to own a music label, this project is a step towards that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo-1024x235.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" width=\"840\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo-1024x235.png 1024w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo-768x176.png 768w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo.png 1127w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The record I made in Illustrator serves as a pictorial not only in the wordmark logo, but also as the image in the tab of this page. Look at the top of your screen and notice I couldn\u2019t let the bland WordPress logo be there on my awesome site.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"905\" height=\"906\" src=\"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Record-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Record-1.png 905w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Record-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Record-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Record-1-768x769.png 768w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Record-1-450x450.png 450w, https:\/\/davidnwheeler.com\/webdev\/final-project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Record-1-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My greatest weaknesses in web development are starting to become strengths. I want to continue working in illustrator and photoshop to give my websites that edge. As a designer and a web developer, I want the shadow I cast to reach far and wide. I still have much to learn but after 8 intense weeks in Emerging Media at Grady College, I am confident in my foundation to learn more in this field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This final assignment has been my favorite project so far. The content sparked passion and more importantly I got to try out some stuff fixing my weaker areas of WordPress. I spent more time carefully choosing plugins and managing them to work together for my site rather than take away from it. 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