Develop the overall context to guide your decision making
ECT424/IS324 Assignment One: WordPress Site Context
Assignment: Due class 3 Total Points: 10 points
Develop the overall context to guide your decision making. You don’t need to go into complete
branding detail (and it doesn’t have to be real). The point of this is that once you have a context, you
can make meaningful decisions about your extensions and other site features. You will build your site,
making decisions about layout and plugins – to reinforce this context.
a. You may choose to use the background of TimesRUs to develop the context for your site
or you may choose to develop a new context. Examples are sites that support HR
functions, or Sales functions, or Store Layout activities. It doesn’t really matter, as long
as you have a context and a purpose. Please see below for more information.
b. Post this document to D2L dropbox.
Additional Background
Think in terms of one of the many possible types of sites you think the organization (TRU) will need: it
could be a project status type site, it could be an internal news site, or anything else you think works for
TRU.
It must have a central community as the focus though (using a Blog as the communication method –
the more focused the community, the easier to develop the context). Once you’ve decided on your
community, then you can develop 2 or 3 use cases (stories about the types of people who would use the
site, and how they would use it), describe who would be responsible for creating the content (making
posts in your mythical context, we both know in reality – YOU will be writing the content), the type of
content, and who would be making comments. You should also describe what you want people to get
out of your site (why they would come back). Make sure that this is appropriate to TRU or whatever
organization/community you chose to develop for. This should be a long range site (so not a single
event).
You may choose to develop a context that is not associated with TRU. I reserve the right to reject any
non-TRU site concepts. Examples are blogsites about Home Brew Beer, Bread, Thai Restaurants,
personal portfolio sites, Dance in Chicago, French people in Chicago etc. There really is no limit, as long
as you can answer the questions above and it is NOT geared to a single event (your wedding for
example).
Please be sure to explain the purpose behind your blog site (why spend the money/time to do this).
If you are an experienced WordPress/Blog administrator, you may choose to install BuddyPress (or
similar social networking environment). If you are an experienced WordPress blogger you can use this
opportunity to try some new things. You can NOT just use your current blogsite.
For those of you who don’t want to go creative, use TRU as a fallback.