how i built a website for $16 in chocolate
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A presentation on using WordPress as a CMS for a library website given as part of the Solving Problems track at Internet Librarian 2009.TRANSCRIPT
How I Built a Website For $16 in Chocolate
laura crossettInternet Librarian 2008
newrambler.net/lisdom/il2008
Somebody said that it couldn't be done. . .
what I wanted:
easy to updatestandards compliant
freeRSS
good lookingdid I mention free?
Somebody said that it couldn't be done.But she with a chuckle replied. . .
what I had:
no moneyminimal tech skills
what i had:
timeflexibilityfreedom
That maybe it couldn't, but she would be oneWho wouldn't say so till she'd tried.
what i did:
early mock-up
So she buckled right upWith a trace of a grin on her face.If she worried, she hid it.
what happens if I. . .?
"hmm, I guess that wasn't the right color choice. . ."
got help
Twitter, IM, Pay IT Forward
usability testing
She started to sing as she tackled the thingThat couldn't be done,
and she did it.
the web team!
this is not to say there were no problems
Credits:
One stanzas of “It Couldn't Be Done” adapted (with a gender change) from a poem by Edgar A. Guest
flying machine drawing:http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?T001820
Spencer Tracy in “Northwest Passage”:http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1551039
Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport:http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179137415
LSW dogs photo by Cindi Trainorhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2397151892
Thanks to my LSW friends, internet librarians all.