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I had a problem with the website, I had all the plans to create the website myself and even started the coding process on Dreamweaver. But I wanted my categories to link to every single feature I had on the website, that's when things became confusing. So I went to Ravensbourne and I tried to find a teacher that knew how to use Dreamweaver to help me, I found a teacher and explained to him my problem and that I had the option to create with Wordpress but that I was saving this option to the last. So after a hour talk he suggested me to go to Wordpress because I would need to create a template page and add PHP to it, but I don't know PHP yet and I didn't have hours available to watch PHP on lynda.com. So I had to take my desperate measure and create my website with Wordpress. I bought a Premium Theme, a domain, a custom domain and changed it as I pleased, it was a lot faster, specially because I knew how to use it. But I won't be defeated and I'll learn PHP in the future.
I picked the theme Zuki because is a flexible layout and adaptable to other devices, something I was particularly interested when creating my design. Then I changed the logo, the navigation bar, and created pages for the event and a front page so every feature with a particular tag could be add to that.
After that was adding the content, the images and the text. I created a "welcome" feature where I talked about the website and what the mission is and what we thing about wearable technology, etc. Adding the image with the hands together and the collage. The collage is the main image, as soon as you open the website, that is the first feature you see. Then following to the event page, you have an image with the name of the event and the date, if you click on the image it will take you straight to the eventbrite's page.
This is the homepage, with the logo, navigation bar and full-width slideshow with the main articles. This theme allows me to put quotes, a sidebar and smaller articles under the slideshow, which is good because I can play around with the content and how I display it. On the sidebar I'm putting a Twitter feed, a Facebook page and Amazon widget. Occasionally a quote about something.
This is the events page. Big pink squares with the name and the date on the side. The order is chronological and if you click on the image it goes straight to the Eventbrite's page of that particular event. I will test having smaller squares with the name and date. I put big because of the names. But I can do something about it. Having the main information and then the link.
This is the feature page, an image on the top with a big heading and the author right down below, and then the feature. On the bottom we have date, the categories and tags. Below that we have a "related" widget with some other posts that might be interesting and share buttons.
The footer is all about quick information so when you go to the bottom of the website you don't have to go all the way to the top to check the navigation bar for example. Here I also put recent posts, a quick list of events happening during the current month so you don't have to go to the events page if you reach this part of the page, a menu and links to other good websites about wearable technology.