Social Media Round Up

In the expanding internet there are many massive social media platforms out there, and to logically share your campaigns, knowledge, or opinions there are useful tools. Two of which are Buffer, and IFTTT.

Buffer

If you need a professional level tool to control when, and where your posting are sent out, buffer is your tool. You can connect to a majority of the main social media platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and others.

IFTTT

To state it as simple as possible, IFTTT is a system to build triggers. For example, you can build a trigger that will monitor your WordPress blogs and if you make a post it can share a snippet with a link of the post on Facebook, Twitter, or many others.

WordPress

WordPress is the worlds largest content management system (CMS) with ranging between 23% to 25% of all websites on the internet are WordPress, 409 million people view more than 20.4 billion WordPress blogging pages each month, 56.6 million new posts, and 52.2 million new comments each month.

The concept of WordPress as a blogging platform only is not true, on WordPress Showcase you can view many large companies using WordPress in unique ways. When I am creating a WordPress website I consider if there is ever going to have a comment field in the life span of the website. It is easier to turn off comment capabilities than rebuilding a whole website, or coding in comment areas.

Soruces:

https://wordpress.com/activity/

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=blogger,drupal,sharepoint,wordpress

Being a Website Developer

A couple years ago I began School to better my future by picking a course that would help me get a job I would like, that being website development. Over time I landed a job I never imagined landing, and sadly it is not website development. My last year of education has been more so completing my tasks and not expanding much beyond that point. In that time I have forgotten the purpose for developing a webpage, and what the general processed a website developer does.

In the article “What Does A Web Designer Do? Five Things They Should Know” by Sita Gabriel, the author, in detail, goes over the concept of website development, and what must be considered while constructing one. The primary points the author went over was, How the Internet works, How websites work, How to best present your content, How to build for mobile, and Best practice principles.

In a global point of view I feel that the author is accurate on the concepts, and I am grateful for writing the article. It reminded me of some of the primary pieces I was neglecting in developing websites.

CSS 101

With the ever growing W3, and constantly expanding design of the layout it is essential to constantly refine your skills. This blog is all about the CSS 101 article where you can go over excellent sources in one location to refresh, or refine your skills.

In the article it has six sections which are, Useful CSS Tools, CSS/CSS3 Tutorials, CSS/CSS3 Examples, CSS/CSS3 Cheat Sheets, Influential CSS/CSS3 Blogs, and CSS/CSS3 Editors. Throughout each section there are friendly descriptions to enlighten the reader about that section, and a list of sources with a description of each source.

The article is at the least a worth a one time over view to verify if you are familiar with the sources, and if they can enhance your skills.

Introduction

Hello W3!

I am currently a student at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College majoring in Website Development, this is my last semester, and I am taking Web Campaign Management, Web Emerging Technologies, and Technical Reporting.

My current assignment for Web Campaign is creating a WordPress blog page, and make four blogs. The first blog is an introduction, the second and third blogs are commentary and reactions related to web development articles, and the final post is a blog posting about one of the many tools available to support blogging.