‘About Me’ page

• It is vital that you provide some information about yourself as the creator of your website.

WHY?

About’ pages

• Designed to give the user an insight into the person(s) behind the site.

• Usually a short paragraph with a brief biography and a statement of intention (ie the ‘why’ behind the site).

• Does not include any personal, trackable details.

• No last names!!

• Use a ‘contact me’ page with a contact form,

rather than giving out your email address.

An example of good ‘About’ page text:

Hi everyone, my name is Gertrude and I’m an animal enthusiast from Melbourne, Australia.

My biggest passion is elephants, and after a trip to Thailand last year, and seeing some crazy treatment of these gentle giants, I decided to do something about it!

This site is designed to raise awareness about the poor treatment of elephants around the world and is a place of all of us animal lovers, particularly elephant lovers to get together and chat!

Gertrude is an animal enthusiast from Melbourne, Australia, who has a passion for the welfare of elephants.

During a trip to Thailand last year, Gertrude became aware of some of the terrible ways elephants are treated around the world.

This site is designed to raise awareness about the poor treatment of elephants around the world and is a place of animal lovers to get together, chat and fight against those who are cruel to animals.

First person, informal Third person, formal

Should I include a picture?

This is completely your choice.

If you do, choose a photo of yourself that is appropriate to:• The site• Your age

Do not include:• A picture of you in a group shot• An obvious selfie• An overly posed photo• A photo that gives any indication of where you live or go to school.

WidgetsWhat is a widget?

In computing, a web widget is a software widget for the web. It's a small application with limited functionality that can be installed and executed within a web page by an end user. A widget has the role of a transient or auxiliary application, meaning that it just occupies a portion of a webpage and does something useful with information fetched from other websites and displayed in place.

Widgets often take the form of on-screen devices such as clocks, event countdowns, auction-tickers, stock market tickers, flight arrival information, daily weather etc.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Widgets in Wordpress

You theme will have designated widget areas. This might be in the sidebar, in the footer, or in both of these areas.

You might have multiple widget areas in one place.

Accessing widget control on the Wordpress dashboard:

The widget areas available to you.

The widgets you can choose from

Activating widgets is a drag and drop system

Widgets that are particularly useful:

• Social media widgets

• The ‘Text’ widget – you can use this embed codes to embed all sorts of things

• ‘Categories’ of posts – if you are doing a blog

• ‘Search’ widget – allows a user to search something on your site

Golden Rules of Widgets

• Widgets should add something to your site – if you don’t need it, don’t use it. You are allowed to leave your widget areas empty.

• Widgets should not distract too much from the main content of the site.

• Choosing dynamic widgets – widgets that will update and change themselves automatically (egTwitter feed) are the best kinds of widgets.