The Final Blog

I have learned so much this year. It has been a great year to learn a completely new and exciting way to use technology as we know it today! Prior to coming into this class I had almost no exposure to anything related to computer programming but hopefully through this post you can understand some of things I learned this year. Along with some of the things I’ve learned, this post should also help with understanding all of the ways that I learned how to use WordPress this year. On my blog, I learned how to edit the homepage, add sub-pages, write a blog post, edit the menus users to navigate the website, and customize and change the theme. My favorite part about WordPress was how easy it was to customize the layout and theme of the website because you can change the color, pictures, and overall look of the website with just a few clicks. Writing a post is so easy and fun as well! You can do so many different things with the posts. You can change the font in a multitude of ways! You can also change the size, add a heading, and change the different colors but these are all of the things that you can do with just the words. You can add media to the post as well. The easiest and most common media that is able to be added is a youtube video or a song from Soundcloud. You can either embed these through HTML code or you can just copy and paste the link from the website and click embed. When making a post you have two options of how to make a post. The first option is just to use the text box and layout options to fill the post with your desired content. The second way is to switch it to an HTML coding format. This way if you are savvy in HTML, you can make the post this way. This may be desired for people who want to customize the post more than normal since this is a more complicated way to make one because of the prior knowledge of HTML that is needed. These are just a few of the new aspects I have learned over the course of this year. I feel so much more up to date on how modern technology works and how to actually use it. Understanding technology today is such an essential part of life and taking this course advanced my knowledge exponentially! I’m very thankful I took this class and recommend many upcoming students take it as well.