Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Making a website for my mom

As soon as summer started my mom started nagging me to make a website that would showcase her eBay store which sold exotic items (like belly dance belts) from India. I thought this would be a waste of time until I remembered that I had to start work on my MYP Personal Project this summer. Building this website for my mom would be the perfect SMART goal. Its been two days since then and I have started talking to my mom and trying to visualize what she had in mind. She wants a basic website that would have a nice homepage that attracted customers, had a contact form, along with tabs on the top, along with a couple other things. I was able to streamline these requirements to three basic ones:

  • Must be aesthetically pleasing
  • Must be easy to navigate
  • Must include a contact form
I will measure my success by asking my mom to rate my website on a scale from 1-10. If I get a 7 or above, I will deem the project successful. I will achieve this by taking help from website development experts on the internet and using WordPress (recommended to me by my mom). As my website development skills are virtually non existent I took the liberty of asking WordPress experts on a forum known as Reddit. They recommend learning HTML, CSS and a few basic WordPress classes. They say this will take roughly 1 month and shouldn't be very difficult making this project realistic within the time-frame.

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