{"id":360,"date":"2024-01-24T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dkctraining.katyfield.net\/?p=34"},"modified":"2024-01-24T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:23:50","slug":"the-founding-of-my-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/2024\/01\/24\/the-founding-of-my-site\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founding of My Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About my site customization<\/h2>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:60% auto\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/dkctraining.katyfield.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of the home page of my website\" class=\"wp-image-36 size-full\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>To the left is a screen capture of my home page. For this page, I experimented with the column and quote blocks, which I had never used before. I included a description of the site and its purpose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I also customized the background color and played around with some other features, like the buttons and social media icons. In the image below you can see the different pages I created. A button at the bottom of the about page takes you over to the contact page. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/dkctraining.katyfield.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-1024x74.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of the top menu of my website\" class=\"wp-image-50\" \/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What have I learned?<\/h2>\n<p>I learned a lot of new things! In my introductory digital studies course, I only really scratched the surface of Word Press features. I didn&#8217;t realize how much freedom I really had when it came to organizing my website with things like patterns and columns, and how many different things can be embedded using blocks. It&#8217;s so cool!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YouTube!!<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Crochet Flower Coaster &amp; Pot by Lacie Bloom on YouTube.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the project I&#8217;m working on right now! This was a suggestion from my roommate. We already have two sets of coasters I&#8217;ve crocheted in the past, but she wanted something cuter I guess. This video tutorial is super clear and easy to follow! But I&#8217;m so sick of making all the little flowers. Ugh. They&#8217;re cute but time consuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About my site customization To the left is a screen capture of my home page. For this page, I experimented with the column and quote blocks, which I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","category-training","tag-spring-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkc.umw.edu\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}