1) What I Did

Today, I nailed down several aspects of the my blog’s design. I created my “About Me” page, added a handful of widgets, and created categories to organize my work for the semester.

2) Why I Did It

– About me: Obviously, an about me page is important for readers to learn more about the author. I didn’t realize an About page was automatically created, but once I did I deleted it and went with mine.

– Widgets: I added four widgets, two on the sidebar and two on the footers. I added a “Pages” widget to the sidebar so readers can quickly click to another page without having to scroll back to the top. I also added a “Categories” widget for the same reason. On the footer, I added an “Archives” and a “Recent Posts” widget so if they scroll to the bottom and couldn’t find what they were looking for, they had a couple options to help out. Originally I had them both under Footer 1, which stacked them on the left side of the page. However, I didn’t like how that looked so I moved recent posts to Footer 2 so it creates two columns.

– Categories: I created five categories for each project this semester. I will use these to place the work I did for each project in specific areas.