I know very little about website development. I know even less about how websites actually work and how content is uploaded.
This blog is pretty easy. The good people at WordPress have made everything very user-friendly, and that’s great. I wish more things in life were this easy.
Especially trying to figure out women. Jeeze.
But I digress…
In class last Wednesday we were introduced to Dreamweaver – this amazing software that allows even the dullest of dullards to create and manage a website. Will it be an elite level site? Maybe. But for first timers, odds are that it will be average, at best, but totally useable.
This is especially important for me. As Assistant Editor of the State Press Magazine and a lad who is only a few months away from graduation, having a firm grasp of uploading and managing web content is not just good to know, it’s seeming more and more vital.
Furthermore, we at SPM are launching our very own website that will hold all of our content. We said a teary goodbye last week (18th of March) in our last printed issue of the magazine. It’s half because we need to (lack of funds) and half becuase it’s just a good idea to launch a site. Most, if not all, media is heading in that direction and it’ll be nice to have something similar to what professional work with. Similar. Not exact, but just close enough.
Granted, for the past two semesters all of our content (aside from Drink of the Week, and few reviews) was available at asuwebdevil.com. A simple click on the SPM tab would lead you to all of our content from that weeks issue, dating back to issues from weeks past.
It was a nice way to reach more eyeballs and thus more readers, but it wasn’t our own site. We just sort of tagged along to the State Press daily and their site.
Having our own site will allow us much more freedom to create interactive media that readers and can partake in.
It should be fun.
So, even though we only had about two hours of Dreamweaver interaction, it was a nice way to introduce us as a class to web developement, but especially for myself. I needed that knowledge base.
Once we have our site up for the magazine, I’ll be sure to link you. I look at this as a positive (at least I’m trying to). Embracing the web and ditching paper is hard to avoid these days.
Unless of course we make some serious money. Anyone interested in investing?
