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A New WordPress User Experience Write-Up

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Hi there! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Roan de Vries. I’m 18 years of age and I’m studying music in The Netherlands. I think you can guess my hobby by now, which is making music in general, but specifically playing the guitar. Most of you probably never heard of me, but you may have heard about my dad: Remkus de Vries.

My experience so far in WordPress has been very limited, but I have been to my first WordCamp recently in Antwerp. I’m very keen to learn more about WordPress.

My dad pointed me to an article about improving the WordPress New User Experience by creating a more beginning user friendly environment. As I was reading it made me curious how I would perform on those tasks. I thought I’d do my share and give a look inside my head on how I complete a set of four very beginner tasks (as shown in the article). [Read more…] about A New WordPress User Experience Write-Up

WordPress In-Action: CGIAR NGO

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Project Website:

CGIAR

What is the website for?

The website is designed to act as both the main site for the CGIAR NGO, and as a hub for the huge range of content made available by all the consortium members.

The Brief:

The brief was, in effect, this list:

  1. Web design based on the new branding guidelines
  2. Designs for page layouts, style elements, typography, graphical elements
  3. Unify and clearly present the information generated by the various Centres and CRPs
  4. Create a central entry point for visitors to find the main governing bodies of CGIAR
  5. Shift the emphasis from ‘the institution’ to ‘content and research’
  6. Increase the unity of the Centres, CRPs, Fund and Consortium Office through consistent design and branding
  7. Communicate clearly what CGIAR is and what it does

There was, of course, a lot more to it than that and in the meetings that followed we realised that a good responsive design was a must – even if it can be a massive challenge on a complex site. We also knew that widgets had to work flexible – if a widget space was small, the widget should respond to that – responsive within responsive, if you see what I mean. That means the chances of a user putting a widget somewhere and messing up a page is pretty slim, so long as it’s one of our widgets, that is – some plugins have their own ideas!

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