The semester culminates in a team project that you will work toward gradually. The end product will be a 5-page website created in WordPress.

The first part of the semester, you will develop user profiles and wireframes as individuals. Once you are in a group, you can use one team member’s previous work to launch into website creation or you can combine ideas or even invent a whole new client.

I encourage you to form teams earlier than required. If you work together from the beginning, you will have a lot of the website thought out before the final part of class. When working in groups during class, identify people you might like to work with, and reach out to them.

You can also use the Wordville site you created as the basis for this website. You can duplicate the project in Pantheon or duplicate the WordPress site and then start changing elements and templates. That way, you will already have the plugins and basic structure laid down.

You will present this website in a short oral presentation at the end of the semester.

Assignment Credit Requirements

• [ ] Website is made in WordPress.
• [ ] Website has at least five pages.
• [ ] Website is for one of the case study clients or a client approved by the instructor.
• [ ] When the website URL is submitted in Blackboard, you should also list the following in the comments:
  • Three tasks users are able to accomplish seamlessly on the site.
  • Three top keywords you are using in your content throughout the site.
• [ ] All text is filled in. (No lorem ipsum except for possible customer reviews or legal copy.)
• [ ] All pages include a mixture of text and visual elements.
• [ ] A main navigation is present on all pages, and that navigation is consistent.
• [ ] Includes a way to always get back to the home page (like the company name or logo).
• [ ] All pages have a footer.
• [ ] The website allows the user to complete at least three major tasks with no dead links or broken elements.
• [ ] All pages include some kind of call to action (at least one).
• [ ] The main value proposition of the company is clear on the home page.
• [ ] All pages have Yoast metadata filled in (the meta title, meta description, and at least one meta keyword).
• [ ] You should use at least three distinct layouts. In other words, not every page can be one column with a right sidebar. (For example, the home page might center around a gallery at the top with images or a scrolling layout. One top-level page might be one column with three images or some other kind of organizing feature to get to its subpages. One might be one column with mostly just text. Another might have two or three columns. Another page might be an account dashboard (where you would have a password and a record of your orders or membership), a shopping cart, checkout page, music playlist, social media aggregator page, newsroom, interactive calendar, help tutorial, or setup wizard.) In other words, the pages should not only have distinct content but also have at least four distinct layouts while remaining consistent within the theme.