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1. WordPress com running Hemingway Rewritten theme Akismet blocks spam from getting to your blog What s on your mind There s nothing in your spam queue at the moment Di 10 50 MB 0 Space Used Feedback Storage Space Appearance Di 3 072 MB Space Allowed Users Tools Activity Stats Settings Recently Published e Mar 27th 8 47 pm Mi Primera Historia Espa ola 20 llapse n Mar 27th 8 28 pm First Story 15 Figure 7 Dashboard Page The successful login in will lead to Figure 7 One must click on My Site in the upper left corner Clicking on that will lead to the dashboard for the WordPress website as shown in Figure 8 Al MySite Ch Reader O o blacksburg2guatemala Days Weeks Months Years ADD NEW WORDPRESS E VIEWS v E VISITORS View Site Wo WP Admin 2 PUBLISH Blog Posts i D UI m Pages Apr Ip Apr 13 p p Apr 22 pr2 pr28 May May 4 May 7 views VISITORS LIKES P T 4 1 Themes Customize Stats for May 7 2015 Menus Posts amp Pages O A Countries O A ws amp Sharing Home page Archives A 2 Users o First Story A 1 Water G 1 Settings 2 Figure 8 WordPress specific site Dashboard Many tasks can be accomplished from this page The landing page contains analytic information to see how many views the website is getting Statistics can also be broken down by each category and page One can also see what countries are visiting the page on a daily basis WA My Ste2. Jh Reader OU E blacksburg2guatemala Published Drafts Scheduled Trashed Q ADD NEW WORDPRESS Mi Primera Historia Espanola View Site a Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet appareat laboramus consequat ad pro ne duo posse dicta malorum In has dolore essent feugait ceteros offendit epicurei WwW WP Admin A e nec ad Homero populo vituperatoribus et sit bh Stats D A month ago K PUBLISH Edit D View sh Stats Trash Blog Posts D Pages jd LOOK AND FEEL Themes Customize Menus ONFIGURATION ee J S Sharing First Story SY eae This is your very first post Click the Edit link to modify or delete it or start a new post If you like use this post to tell readers why you started this blog tt Settings and what you plan to do with it Happy bloggin Figure 9 Blog post display Clicking Blog Posts in the left side bar will lead you to this page where one can manage all the posts on the website A list of recent posts will be shown here Clicking the pencil icon on the upper right will allow the client to post a new story as seen in Figure 10 From here the story can be added to the website The story can be given categories and pictures can also be added WA MySite Jh Reader KE o Current Status New Draft D Add Media Visual HTML CHANGE STAT B I we EG mm ABC na Publish Immediately SE SS bel es E I RIE H i E T SHARIN LOCATION ei AD EL p Words 0 Preview Save Draft P
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4. 5 LEAVE A C MENT RECENT POSTS Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet appareat laboramus consequat ad pro ne duo posse dicta malorum In has dolore essent feugait ceteros offendit epicurei nec ad Homero Mi Primera Historia Espafiola populo vituperatoribus et sit et duo urbanitas deseruisse quaerendum Audire facilis Figure 1 The home page of the website The home page serves to be the central hub on the website giving users a list of stories sorted from the most recent to the oldest The home page also displays a right sidebar which contains a search field to search stories Below the search engine is a list of recent posts on the website The menu items right below the featured image are categories the stories will be broken down into Clicking on of these will display stories in the respective category SEARCH RECENT POSTS Mi Primera Historia Espa ola First Story RECENT COMMENTS ARCHIVES March 2015 This is your very first post Click the Edit link to modify or delete it or start a new post wa If you like use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it CATEGORIES Figure 2 Story page Clicking on a story will show then full content including pictures if any pictures are associated with the story The image will be clickable to view at full resolution The client can embed more than one image video The menu items will still be at the top of the page The side bar will also p
5. Blacksburg to Guatemala Archive Project John Crowson Ankit Agarwal Arth Joshi Final Repot 05 06 2015 Client Kimberley Homer Delegate Christ Church Blacksburg Sister Parish CS 4624 Multimedia Hypertext and Information Access Professor Edward Fox Spring 2015 Table of Contents E ee ue e E 3 MVS Mana al sce cee neces A te este cee pesca senezes E case eae ere A 4 3 DEVElOP er SM AU AN escceciscccesisctiescechceecssicedscisvasenvedescouccuscauseistatjecbsievsesvecsusuuevesastia lvedeece susteceeve ca hide svaeneetsestueded uct 8 Ee E 13 4T ner eh TE 13 AN PrOD DI EE 13 SE 0 EE 14 E Re ge 14 5 ACKNOW TE e 14 ORo CICE E 15 1 Executive Summary The primary objective of the Blacksburg to Guatemala Archive Project is to create a medium for cultural exchange between Christ Church Blacksburg and their sister parish in San Andres Itzapa Guatemala This project will create a website and will allow for these two parishes to remain in close contact following the recent visit of a delegation from Christ Church Blacksburg to Guatemala in January 2015 We are completing this project as soon as possible in order to minimize the delay between their visit and the establishment of such a cultural exchange Both parishes will benefit from our project satisfying a desire to remain in touch and embrace cultural differences We decided to use WordPress to offer the simplest possible solution WordPress will allow the client to eas
6. ersist for easy navigation to search and recent stories Leave a Reply Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in Oo fi DN wW Email Notify me of new comments via email Post comment Figure 3 Reply dialog Every story will also have a commenting section on the bottom of the page Here the user can leave a reply if they desire A reply can be anything from a reflection or a way to communicate with the parish The reply dialog box will require users to enter email and name to prevent spam Got ea SEARCH RESULTS FOR FIRST first SEARCH F 5 r t St r i RECENT POSTS irst Story Mi Primera Historia Espa ola MARCH 27 2015 LEAVE A COMMENT First Story This is your very first post Click the Edit link to modify or delete it or start a new post If you like use this post to tell readers why you started this blog and what you plan to do with it Happy blogging RECENT COMMENTS ARCHIVES Follow Figure 4 Search result functionality Figure 4 shows how users can use the search engine A user can search a story using the search bar on the right side bar Stories can be searched in both English and Spanish The user can also search categories The results will be displayed based on how relevant each article is to the search term SEARCH RECENT POSTS Mi Primera Historia Espa ola First Story RECENT COMMENTS ARCHIVES March 2015 CATEGORIES Uncategorized Figure 5 Water cate
7. ge To solve the language problem we dug deep into the WordPress developer documentation and found a way to enable Spanish content This stopped WordPress from automatically correcting the Spanish text 4 4 Future Work The deliverables specified in the contract with the client were completed However the website needs to have much more content The parishes can accomplish this at a later date when there are enough stories to share Following the developer s manual will enable the parish to easily post new pictures and stories Furthermore a translation feature can be added so that stories can be viewed in either language We explored this feature but there was no way to keep the full meaning If there is a way no meaning can be lost in translation this feature should be added 5 Acknowledgements The project team would like to thank the client Kimberley Homer for her support and guidance throughout the project She can be reached at 540 231 9521 for any further questions The team would also like to thank Dr Edward Fox fox vt edu for introducing this project to our group in allowing us to create something that we hope will have an impact on the community The project would not be what is without the two listed above and we thank you for giving us the opportunity 6 References Bego Sven Software Engineering Project 2IP40 Software Requirements Document Software Requirements Document 28 Mar 2006 Web 12 Feb 2015
8. gory page Figure 5 shows what a sample category page looks like Stories that are tagged to that category will be displayed in each subsection Users can view a particular category that interests them the most 3 Developer s Manual The purpose of this developer manual is to show how the parishes can upload content and generally change the website as they desire The developer end of the website can be accessed at https wordpress com wp login php The login page is shown in Figure 6 The username and password is as follows Username ccblackburg Password multimedia Email or Username Password wl Stay signed in Figure 6 Login window for parish Q MySite DEI Reader Go Premium 3 q Q Screen Options Help 8 Dashboard x pre amp Tighten your account s security Two step authentication is now available on WordPress com Enable now or learn more Comments I ve Made Site Stats My Blogs Blogs Follow Dashboard Akismet Stats n Tip Get more readers by upgrading your current web address blacksburg2guatemala wordpress com to a custom domain name like blacksburg2guatemala com x Omnisearch A custom domain name makes your site easier for people to find makes it look more professional and it lets you personalize your site with its own unique web address P Store Register blacksburg2guatemala com for only 18 per year d Posts At a Glance Quick Draft Media Links gt 2 Posts IiE 8 Pages Title Pages Comments
9. ily maintain stories on the website and will also give readers an easy way to enjoy them We chose a simple theme and then further perfected it to reduce any complications We decided to only display aspects that were absolutely necessary to the project Aside from the stories categories and search are the only other modules that are visible to the readers The website also allows users to leave comments on every story so they can interact with the parishes in an easy Way Another big request from the client s end was to allow for stories written in Spanish We incorporated WordPress s bilingual tools to support this functionality Stories can be written in either language and they will be formatted appropriately A search engine has also been implemented to display results in both English and Spanish Overall the website was a success The primary focus was usability and the tests we ran proved the website was easy to use The client was also happy with the results and can see the website being very useful to both parishes 2 User s Manual The purpose of this user manual is to show users how they can interact with the website The manual will walkthrough the features of website The website can be accessed at www blacksburg2guatemala wordpress com The website is responsive so the user should not have a problem with using it on mobile devices The home page is shown in Figure 1 Mi Primera Historia Espa ola ARCH 27 201
10. rom the client The last phase was to implement a search tool that would search all possible stories and categories In general we kept up with the phases and the two week deadline for each phase Phase 3 gave us some trouble as the client was not ready with the stories We instead worked on other aspects of the website while the client brought together the stories 4 2 Problems The biggest problem faced was theme selection for the WordPress website The project required a particular theme to appeal to readers The design had to be easy to use and clean meaning obtrusive elements should not exist The theme also needed to be multimedia friendly as many stories have accompanying pictures videos We found it hard to find a theme that satisfied all the requirements Many themes did not have a coherent way of showing both pictures and text The remaining themes were too busy in their design approach and had many unnecessary elements Another problem was bilingual support WordPress automatically corrected Spanish stories as the software thought they were in English This removed all the accent marks 4 3 Solutions To properly solve the theme problem we had to customize a template We went through each element of the theme and customized it to the requirements of the project We cleaned up the way pictures were shown alongside stories We also got rid of redundant elements on the page We then added things we needed such as an About Us pa
11. ublish Figure 10 Creating a new blog post W MySite Jh Reader blacksburg2guatemala Published Drafts Trash Q blacksburg2guatemala wordpress com ADD NEW WORDPRESS 7 DAYS AGO View Site Gegen W WP Admin E Peace Ch Languages Calendars Blog Posts Add aoe Schools LOOK AND FEEL Water Themes Si Food Customize AMONTH AGO Menus About CONFIGURATION A Sharing amp Users Settings Figure 11 Pages display Clicking Pages on the left side bar will display the categories already on the website as seen in Figure 11 New categories can be added from this page as well Many other tasks can be accomplished using the dashboard including changing the look and feel of the website and changing commenting settings 4 Lessons Learned 4 1 Timeline Schedule The project was broken down into multiple two week long phases with deliverables due at the end of each phase The project was spilt up into 4 two week long phases Phase 1 was about identifying the tools that would be used on the project and website hosting A big part of this phase was to investigate how the client will upload content to the website Phase 2 was to implement the website design The design needed to be easy to use and free of extra noise This means modules not absolutely necessary should be left out Phase 3 involved publishing the stories and pictures to the website This phase was heavily client dependent as the stories came f
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