Over at PRACE, we’ve been upgrading our website to wordpress, so that a range of people may author and edit content on the site. Yes it’s taken me quite some time to finally get the thing ready to show other co-ordinators, but it’s a lot of fun to work with the new system.
It’s meant i’ve had to upgrade the wordpress on this site, to find out more about how it all works. (Upgrading is an adventure in itself.)
.. and now, the editing (wysiwyg) toolbars don’t really work, the photodropper plugin doesn’t work .. but version 2.5 is much better than 2.03. (Oh, and now it’s time to upgrade again .. across 3 separate sites.)
What are the literacies involved here? A mix of grappling with the technology, and also with the language involved:
- Knowing how to author a document for the web environment;
- Being able to write for multiple audiences ..
- Knowing how to navigate not just an ordinary website, but a content-authoring system;
- Being open to ‘flexible layout’ .. realising that images won’t sit exactly where you want them ..
- Knowing what it means to “optimise” an image, and how to manage that technically;
- Managing relationships between authors and audience;
- Knowing about copyright, and permission to use images ..
- and much more
Oh look! The photodropper plugin does work! Terrific.
Think i’ve managed to fix all those problems between the first draft and publishing ;-]
photo credit: Gungde
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