In this Cycle you will be working with your second content manager. You will probably not need as much time for the second experience because you will not have to re-do the storyboard. You still should work on a site plan, as it MAY change based on the capabilities of the second content manager.
1 – First, I think it would be very useful for you to peer review what your classmates said about the 5 pages that suck. On canvas, click on the peer review link to the right of this assignment to see who has been randomly assigned to you. Take a look at what they said and make comment or two if you care to.. Do not make a big deal about this, just I think useful for you to see what others think is good or bad design to help you plan your own site.
2 – Here is the link to our readings/lesson for this cycle: The Web Literacy Project, sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation. Review the readings and answer the questions on this topic in the drop box set up in Canvas.
3 – Next, pick your second content manager (WordPress or Drupal)… the one you did not pick in last cycle. Spend the next three weeks learning it. There is less time devoted to this cycle because the thought is that you have already done the planning and story boarding. What you are doing this time is converting content to discover similarities and differences between the two CMS systems. Take the same content from last cycle and convert it. This will challenge you to compare the two. To that end, you pick one of them and use it for your final project. You will then spend the last two weeks of this term fine tuning and refining your site and turn it in as your final project.
What to do —> There is an assignment drop box posted on Canvas worth 40 points. Your task is to write up a side by side chart listing each CMS. Maybe selecting 10 points to consider… then vote with comments as to which one ‘wins’ for that category. .. (ease of use, number and types of plug ins/add-ons.. theme selections, etc..) Then summarize at the end which one you would chose and why. A single page would do.. If you write out on a word doc that is fine but be sure to copy into the text area in order to help me minimize the number of clicks I need to get to your responses. I will leave it as an ‘open’ assignment so you can see your classmate’s’ responses. No need to comment on them as we are out of time. Looking forward to your comments.
Again, we provide a reminder as to what the final project is all about: