What was my approach (emphasis)?
In this course, we learned about the “YOU” perspective. From the “YOU” perspective, one is expected to be empathetic to the audience as possible. Moreover, they ought to craft the letter according to the expectations of the audience. For instance, I made my page relatively simplistic, lacking fancy media, in order to not overwhelm a recruiter with too many animations or media, and to allow them to gain information about me easily. However, if I had more time for this assignment, I would have preferred to create the site from scratch to show the recruiter my skills. My site would have included some animation and CSS. This would’ve shown to the recruiter my designing skills. I would’ve also liked to add some musings to my page, to share my opinions and research regarding Agile development, project management and technology. I really believe in working with the consumer for my projects. I also like experimenting with Extreme Programming to accelerate the pace of production. I could have also liked to discuss my adventures in project management and my use of the Pomodoro Technique and Time Trackers to enhance my productivity.
Moreover, I would have liked to create my CMS system from scratch which allowed me to easily add works for this course. Perhaps, this is a task for another day.
Enjoy
I enjoyed learning how to use WordPress. WordPress is an important skill to have in some web development and blog development projects. In addition, they are known to have excellent SEO and Google Ads. I’ve always wanted to learn to use WordPress and create an Affiliate Marketing blog, a blog for my musings and a website to showcase my projects. I’m glad that I had the opportunity to learn how to create a blog on WordPress. Hopefully, my ambitions for a blog would no longer be in limbo. Furthermore, I learnt how to design a blog with a consu
mer in mind. I also learnt that blogs are niche. So it is not appropriate for me to have one blog with all of my work, but rather multiple blogs, for my various type of works; projects, technology and musings.
Challenging
I found it challenging to connect the posts with the web page. However, I couldn’t figure out how to set up the categories as we did for the submissions to the group. Therefore, I simply posted my assignments on various pages and had links referring to them throughout my reflections and the best works page. But, this is definitely something that I have to start to work on for my I also had to make the hard trade-off in spending time on the design or spending time adding content to the blog. Although, the design is important. If one spends too much time on the design, there is limited time spent on the actual content of the blog. This lesson will also apply as I start writing for my own blog and documentation.
In addition, I installed the Gutenberg plugin to help me format my pages. When I start blogging professionally, I would perhaps need to install plugins and learn about them to help me achieve my tasks quicker.