{"id":67,"date":"2016-02-22T00:56:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/?p=67"},"modified":"2016-02-22T01:02:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:02:32","slug":"making-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/kimberlywethal\/2016\/02\/22\/making-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Making changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found this assignment to be incredibly frustrating, because it gave me unrealistic expectations as to what a college kid could do. <\/span>
\n<\/span>I read over all of the reading material and thought each concept was a no brainer. <\/span>
\n<\/span>And then I tried to implement it. <\/span>
\n<\/span>I had to close my laptop a few times because I felt I was spinning my tires deep in code I didn’t understand. <\/span>
\n<\/span>I’d look at the home page of my blog in disgust each and every time I reopened it. <\/span>
\n<\/span>I needed a reality check: I shouldn’t expect to click a few buttons and gaze upon a CNN-esque homepage. They’ve paid for their page to look a certain way, every element syncing up in harmony. <\/span>
\n<\/span>I found myself trying out the looks of different themes, settings within those themes, the coloring. Nothing made it look like what I envisioned it could.<\/span><\/p>\n

I tried to change a few things, though; here\u2019s what I managed to do:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Added more to my menu<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    -Instead of having just an \u201cAbout Kimberly\u201d tab, I decided to put news, features on it as well, as well as a search bar. Other news websites had a menu full of different tabs, so that\u2019ll be something to continue to work on as I go throughout the class.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Made my pictures bigger along the left side of the page<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      -This is a pretty common occurrence and a consistent layout design for websites and newspapers alike. Just makes sense for me to continue to do that with my stories and posts from now on.<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. Added an external link to my blog<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        -My blog now has a link to my external website (one I have to pay for), just as a way to link it with to a satellite site. CNN does this often, with CNNMoney, as an example.<\/span><\/p>\n

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        1. Saved white space by removing my page\u2019s title<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          -Instead, I placed it in the header photo. The title header itself was taking up too much space and left a lot of white on the top of my blog page, so I decided to get rid of it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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