WordPress- assignment 2- not so bad!

This week our assignment was to collaborate on a weblog using WordPress. My teammates were Erin McKinney and Marti Minor. Between the three of us, we managed to:

• create blogs
• import photos
• install widgets
• create individual bio pages
• implement categories for blogs
• install themes
• create tags
• incorporate a blogroll
• create a site map with a nested page heirarchy

WordPress was not difficult to use. There were a few times when it took me a bit of fumbling around before I learned the way to do it, such as when I first tried to nest my bio page under the parent About Us page. However, after either taking more time to poke around the site or by communicating with my teammates using the blog, I figured it out.

The most difficulty I had was in trying to install a plug in. I browsed the WordPress plugins page and found one that sounded interesting. It enabled you to have twitter updates from an organization on the home page. My teammates and I thought that having tweets from the ALA or the Library of Congress would be neat. However, the problem was that we weren't set up to use those particular widgets.

I would definitely use WordPress in the future. Of the two content management systems we've discussed so far, it seems to be the easier one. It was intuitive enough for a tech novice like me to use.