Website Reflection

To be quite honest, I have had quite some difficulty navigating WordPress. I am familiar with Tumblr, Squarespace, and Wix. These are all websites that I have used to maintain a blog. I used Tumblr to create an art blog. I have used Squarespace and Wix to maintain a separate blog. On WordPress, I have a lot of difficulties creating the type of site that I would like. I somehow accidentally deleted the home page and have not been able to add it back. I will google it so that I can. The fact that I don’t have a home page really ruins the naturally aesthetic of the blog. The formatting of the blog just posts a list of things that I’ve written and it isn’t really nicely formatted. Regardless, I do think that I’ve done some decent work on the class and that is reflected in my posts. I know that my website does not have a future beyond this class. It was a website just created to track my progress and assignments in this class. The Arab Spring was nearly a decade ago. I am just regurgitating information to share with my peers. I was shocked to learn that some people didn’t know what the Arab Spring was so I was happy to teach them.

I can’t say that I think that my blog is a good reflection of me or my creativity if I am being honest. I’m really a fan of the arts and that’s not reflected in this blog because I barely know how to use WordPress. It seems straight forward but wasn’t to me. For example, when I tried to make the whole background one color, it only made the parts surrounding the text the color. I thought it was unique to that theme but it happened in the other themes I selected. As you can see from the screenshot of my personal blog below, I love colors and I’m all about presentation. I just didn’t figure out WordPress in the way that I have wanted to.

I am still going to play with WordPress some more tonight to see if I can magically transform my blog because I can’t say that I like the way that it looks now. However, I am happy that it is pretty easy to navigate because the Blog Feed is the main page.

I enjoyed using a blog to track assignments because I think it is a very organized way to keep track of what I have been doing in the class this semester. If I wanted to use tags, I would have been able to carefully filter different assignments. With a customized link, I would have been able to visit the pages where these assignments were sorted. Blogs in general are an efficient way to keep track of ones work. I personally think more people should keep blogs…after all, the internet is forever.

Update: I still was not able to add the homepage like I wanted to but I am okay with how the blog looks because at the very least it is organized.