Summer 2017 MAESTRO Program
CIS 291: Major Assignment 2

Here is a link to the version of this assignment which is on the MAESTRO 2017 Journal Prompts WordPress site.

And here is a link to a fast introduction to some basics of HTML which could be useful for this assignment.

Major Assignment 2 for CIS 291 is to add some non-WordPress pages to your website.

The first step was done in class, when you made a new sub-directory blog of your public_html directory, cloned your WordPress site into blog, and deleted the original copy of your WordPress site (which was usually in journal, but not always: some students had it in Journal, or journals, or even at the root of your domain).

[Please note that a few students did not put their WordPress clone in blog(maybe they used Blog or the root of their domain) — those students must definitely clone again and put their sites on blog!]

The next step is to get a good "landing page" on the root of your domain. This should have

• some text
• some links (at least a link to your WordPress site, and some other(s))
• at least one image

Next make at least three other HTML pages, which should each have links back to your landing page and there should be ways to get to them from your landing page. Somewhere in those pages use at least 8 the following features:

• bold, italics, font color, font size
• headings
• clickable images
• bullet lists
• numbered lists
• tables
• background colors or images
• embedded video or audio

Please also find some other web-based stylistic feature that you want to use - maybe something from another web site that you like, or something you wish you could figure out how to do - not mentioned above, and use it on your web site. Ask your instructor for help in doing any of the above and/or just use your favorite search engine with a phrase like

Last part of this second assignment is to use the Installotron on Reclaim Hosting's cPanel to install some other piece of interesting software that does something you think it would be fun to have on your website. There will be installation instructions that come with whatever software you choose that you should be able to follow - make absolutely sure that you don't install the new software on top of something you have already built (like your WordPress site or the basic HTML pages you have written); the way to be sure of this is to make a subdirectory of public_html into which you will install the new thing.

There are many possible choices for this part of the assignment, look in the cPanel. Some things you might consider are

• a wiki (which is a thing you can build yourself that is like Wikipedia to which multiple people can contribute to build up some shared knowledge about something → these usually have a name with wiki somewhere (which comes from a word in the Hawaiian language that means "quickly")
• a discussion forum which is a thing you can build where people online can come together to discuss one or more topics of interest to them → these often have names with BB somewhere (which comes from "bulletin board")
• a photo gallery → these have obvious names
• a file sharing service → try ownCloud
• a poling service → see many options under Surveys and Statistics in the Installotron
• just a clock (→ iTron Clock; although there is almost nothing to the clock application, so if you install this, you should either also install an additional application, or you should put in a lot of extra work on making a significant plain HTML site with more pages, features, etc.) or bookmarks server (→ YOURLS, Site Bar, Wallabag) e-card maker (→ WebCards) or other simple tool from the Miscellaneous Apps in the Installotron.

If the new software you have installed requires you, as the site owner/administrator to create accounts for people to use, please create an account for your instructor and email him the name, password, and other info he needs to try out what you built.

Write a Journal entry in your WordPress site explaining

• what software you installed
• how you did the installation, including where you go help if you needed it
• features of that software that you like or dislike, and why
• a link to the starting page for that newly installed software

Also put a link to the starting page for that newly installed software somewhere in the HTML pages you put at the root of your website.

Note also that you do need to keep current on putting versions of everything you write for all of your MAESTRO classes on your website … but now they may be in whatever form you like. You should definitely keep the morning English class writing prompt responses as Posts in your WordPress site, but you can keep other writings wherever you like: Posts or Pages in WordPress, HTML pages on your basic site, in some other form (wiki pages...) if you like.

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