I seem to have mammoth troubles with posting on WordPress from my computer, so here is a couple of past posts that didn’t quite make it on in a timely fashion.
14 May 2009
Group project update #1
We’re starting to make headway on our group project, which is a great feeling. We met on Sunday off Lygon Street (of course) and nutted out much of the hefty agenda I’d emailed beforehand. The agenda was as follows:
1. Refining business concept
– refining purpose, audience and goals
– deciding on a website name
– nutting out revenue and funding model (advertising? advertorial?)
– core values / ethos (?)
2. Website plan
– deciding what sections we’ll have (Work, Live, Play, How To?) and how
they will interconnect
– deciding what features we want (RSS, comments, etc)
– outlining a rough site map (space for advertising, etc)
– dividing up what else we need to investigate (WordPress capabilities, etc)
3. Building website
– technical stuff that I have no idea of
– deciding what content we need
– drafting rough timelines for completion of certain stages
We spent most of the time refining our business model, and we discussed issues such as whether businesses would pay for job ads if they could post twitter updates about jobs, whether real estate agents should be allowed to post on the housing section and whether we can post our own images. I think this was really useful to help us conceptualise exactly what would be useful for our users and what wouldn’t.
Toward the end of our meet, we compiled a list that was partly things that need to be done and partly a wish list. Our list included things like writing extra content for the site, investigating CSS for a twitter feed, using weather widgets on the news page and including an ‘Apply Now’ button on the jobs section, like they have on seek. We decided that we’ll start with what is most vital, and work our way down from there.
Over the next week, we’ll get started on actually building the site. We’ve decided to go with justhost and use the WordPress plug-in. I’m glad with this, as it means our plans are less limited by WordPress’s capabilities. And we have so many plans…
14 May 2009
Group project update #2
We met in the library last Sunday and officially launched our site. Yay! Briony did a fantastic job with nutting out the tweet grid – don’t ask me exactly what she did, but best I understand she found a widget and changed the HTML to customise it for us. We still have to create pages and post content, but it feels so good to have something tangible to work with now.
iced vovos 