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Since this is the last week, I focused on finishing up all the required work for the semester. I worked on finishing up my process/blog posts, accessibility, and website design. All of this work was done to make my website presentable, as well as to meet the course requirements. To begin, I realized that I […]

In class this week we looked at how to develop community guidelines for our sites. Previous to this lecture I had not thought about developing community guidelines, but I think it will be a useful thing to implement into my website. My community guidelines are as follows: In class this week we also practiced developing […]

In the lecture and readings from this week, we learnt how to use multiple media channels to reach a larger audience. After viewing the lecture and doing the readings, I began to think of other media channels that I could use to increase my audience size. I decided to figure this out by looking at […]

In this week’s lecture, we learnt about analytics, SEO, and audience growth. For this process post, I wanted to specifically focus on the work I have done for my website SEO. One of the readings from this week titled 15 Reasons Why Your Business Absolutely Needs SEO, says that organic search is often the main […]

In this week’s readings, there was an article written by Maria Popova who is the founder of the website The Brain Pickings (now known as The Marginalian). This article talks about how she chose to not have advertisements run on her website, rather she asks for donations from her users. (1) She also uses affiliate […]

In this week’s lectures and readings, we learnt about how AI programs can be used to enhance our websites. Specifically, the two programs we focused on were ChatGPT and DALL-E. For ChatGPT we learnt that it can be an extremely helpful tool for coming up with ideas and optimizing language modules. For DALL-E and DALL-E […]

As mentioned last week, my goal with my website this week is to change its theme and design. Previous to this week I used the theme “Articlewave Blog” for my website. I originally liked this website because it was simple and looked quite professional. However, after using it for a few weeks, I have noticed […]