assignment 2 lib 2.0

To begin this project I created an account with Wordpress although apparently, at some point in the recent past, I already had an account. The registration was super simple but I was quickly flummoxed as to how to toggle between my dashboard and the blog. Through a fair amount of trial and error, I figured it out. I then posted a general check-in to the group followed by a short bio with a picture. Posting was straightforward and I had to go back and edit a few things I had written and add tags, both of which were no problem. I realized that I was supposed to post my bio under the team bio page and but when I edited my bio post I did not see where I could change that category. I asked my team for ideas on how to change it and when Suzanne posted her idea for a solution I figured it would be a snap to fix the next day. Well I forgot about it the next day and when I did go back to change it a full day later I did not see what she was talking about. I fiddled around with that for a good bit and asked my husband to help me figure it out but we were both stumped.

I learned more about the program just by poking around and playing with the themes and add ons but I never did figure out how to change the post category. I also misunderstood what the difference between what add ons/plugins/widgets are. I thought a blog roll would be nice to have as I often seek those out on blogs that I like. So I added two blog listings and created short descriptions of the blogs (librarian.net and tametheweb.com) and then did the preview and .... they weren't there. Again, this seemed like a it should be terribly obvious but I couldn't figure out why it wasn't appearing on the blog. Several head slaps later I realized that I had not added the blogroll widget. So I had been editing it but it wasn't actually activated or added or however you say that. :) I thought the themes were a little boring but the basic ones were easy to manipulate. The one our group picked,Arclite, was the nicest looking of the basic lot but with more time allotted for the project I probably would have pursued adding a different one. I did download a few I thought were interesting but could not figure out how to upload them. Yes, there is a definite pattern of "Lisa gets stumped easily with WP" in this assignment. I enjoyed working with my teammates and found their comments helpful. They added some very cool widgets and plugins and I had fun playing around with them (especially the add to any plugin)and posting things to this blog as well as my other blog (librarytechnogeekery.blogspot.com).

Overall I learned a lot about Wordpress and am glad to have had this short experience with it. I would probably want to get a book on the subject if I was planning on using it professionally seeing as I have a steep learning curve.

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