The Wonderful World of Wordpress

       So in the huge world of my web class there has been some buzz of a little something called Wordpress. So of course the first thing you Noob coders may ask might be "What's Wordpress?" Well I will tell you that and so much more!!! (Because it's assigned)

       For starters there are two different types of Wordpress; there is .com and .org. Wordpress.com is a way for you to create a blog through Wordpress, where Wordpress.org is a "Well-Architectured personal publishing system," basically it lets you make a website. Wordpress was made in this world as an open source content management system and was actually based off another program called cafelog. In other words they are both a CMS or content management system as it was said above. 

       Wordpress is actually more common than what is first thought. It is actually used on a multitude of common and well known sites like TechCrunch, The New Yorker, BBC America, The Official Star Wars Blog (Come on, I had to put it in.), and Variety. In fact, out of the top 10 MILLION websites of the words Wordpress is used on about 24.4% of them. You do the math, that is a lot of websites.

       Of course though, Wordpress is not the only CMS used. There are others including, but not limited to, Joomla and ModX which are also pretty popular in the CMS area of the web.

Well it looks like I have answered everything that I HAD to. If you would like to see where I got my info from you can click on the links below next to the corresponding questions.

What is the purpose of Wordpress.com?

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What is the purpose of Wordpress.org?

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How did Wordpress originate?

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What is Wordpress based on?

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What is a CMS?

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What large, well-known sites use Wordpress as a CMS?
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What percent of the top 10 million websites use Wordpress?
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Name two more commonly used CMSs besides Wordpress.
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Until the next assignment or unless I get bored and decide to talk about something worthwhile,

Jake Smith

Real Or Hoax

       Another day, another project finished. This time I have made a website depicting myths and legends that may or may not be true. This was actually pretty fun because I have always liked stories that sound almost too much to be true. When I was younger I had multiple books about those kinds of things and to this day still have them with me.

       My favorite story was one about this woman who was driving home very late at night. She saw an elderly woman holding a grocery bag and decided to help the old woman. She pulled up next to her and asked if she needed a ride home, the elder woman simply grunted her address and got into the car. As they were driving, the car stopped at a stoplight and was waiting. As they were waiting another car's headlights filled the car with light. The woman driving looked over and saw various knives and other sharp objects inside of the elderly woman's shopping bag. She then got her first good look at the old woman and saw that the old woman was actually a man. She continued driving until she reached a part of the road out in the middle of nowhere and started faking that the car had suddenly died. She told the man, who was completely unaware that she knew his secret, that she had a spare battery in her trunk and asked if he could go and get it. As soon as he stepped out, she tossed his bag on the ground and sped off. The next day she looked at the newspaper and was shocked to find the man's face on the front page, saying that he was an escaped convict. She quickly notified the police and told them the address that the man had told her the night before. In the end the criminal was never seen again.

       When I started the project I began to make all of the boxes of various colors that you can see by following a helpful video. All that really needed to be done was to make multiple div tags and then apply css styles to them. One of the easiest parts was making a css style sheet that would apply to all of the pages of the website. In order to make all of the pages, I simply copied all of the coding and pasted it into a new file and just changed all of the wording. After having my work double checked, I was told that I forgot to add headings and to put them into an unordered list. Next I decided to go with a sort of vintage look and used Courier New to give it that old typewriter look.

       After that I was able to finish with some time to spare, so I then made my own logo for the website instead of the default logo. When I was making the logo I wanted to keep it close to the original but also make it better than what it already was. I started with the words "real or hoax" and added a little bit of color to them. I used the old trick about blue being the color of truth and then proceeded to put a scale next to it because it is the American symbol for truth. Also it is the Candor symbol in Divergent, because candor means truth. It's nerdy I know but also funny if you think about it. Anyway, the next thing I did was make the hoax part of it. I made it look kind of like a fail stamp kind of thing and put the Loch ness monster next to it.

       It seems as though i've pretty much explained everything. If I could do this project again i would definitely spend some more time making the text itself look better, to me it seems as though i just kind of slapped it on there. I would keep the basic parts and colors of this website if I did do it again. I will soon have another post depicting the next project.