Best Of The Worst?

OMFG DOGS

1. There are no tabs.
2. There is pointless annoying music.
3. One dog's head doesn't match its body.
4. There is a rainbow gradient on repeat rolling through the back ground.
5. No point to the website.

Accept Jesus

1. There is a rainbow gradient running on repeat in the background.
2. There are no tabs.
3. The font is just horrible.

UFO and Paranormal

1. There are no clear tabs.

2. It's too crowded.

3. There are too many items for the site to be organized.

Content Management System (CMS)

Content Management System:
A content management system, or CMS, is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website. Not only do content management systems help website users with content editing, they also take care of a lot of "behind the scenes" work.


Big Name Brands That Use WordPress: 

1. Yahoo! -

2. New York Times Blog -

3. Play Station Blog -

 Popular CMSs:

1. Wordpress - For those users not familiar with HTML or other markup language, a WYSIWYG editor is provided straight out of the box. The backend layout is streamlined and intuitive, and a new user should be able to easily find their way around the administration section. Wordpress also comes with built-in image and multimedia uploading support. For developers, the theming language is fairly simple and straightforward, as well the Plugin API. The WordPress Community is a faithful and zealous bunch. Wordpress probably has the widest base of plugins and themes to choose from. A great part about the Wordpress community is the amount of help and documentation online you can find on nearly every aspect of customizing WordPress. If you can dream it, chances are it's already been done with WordPress and documented somewhere.


2. Drupal - Instead of focusing on blogging as a platform, Drupal is more of a pure CMS. A plain installation comes with a ton of optional modules that can add lots of interesting features like forums, user blogs, OpenID, profiles and more. It's trivial to create a site with social features with a simple install of Drupal. In fact, with a few 3rd party modules you can create some interesting site clones with little effort. One of Drupal's most popular features is the Taxonomy module, a feature that allows for multiple levels and types of categories for content types.



3. Joomla! - Joomla is a very advanced CMS in terms of functionality. That said, getting started with Joomla is fairly easy, thanks to Joomla's installer. Joomla's installer is meant to work on common shared hosting packages, and is a very straightforward considering how configurable the software is.


Joomla is very similar to Drupal in that it's a complete CMS, and might be a bit much for a simple portfolio site. It comes with an attractive administration interface, complete with intuitive drop-down menus and other features. The CMS also has great support for access control protocols like LDAP, OpenID and even Gmail.com. The Joomla site hosts more than 3,200 extensions, so you know the developer community behind the popular CMS is alive and kicking. Like Wordpress, you can add just about any needed functionality with an extension. However, the Joomla theme and extension community relies more on paid plugins and themes, so if you're looking for customizations, be ready to pay.


Circumstances for which one to use you should consider your skill level, like if you aren't very advanced you should choose Wordpress because it is the easiest one to work. But from personal experience I would recommend Wordpress.

Links:

1. https://wordpress.org/about/
2. https://www.drupal.org/about
3. http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html

Storytelling

When news media outlets put their own twist on a story that hasn't been finished, it is normally blown way out of portion. The audience wants to believe the news, but how can we when they add their own spin on stories?

Social Media feeds tend to influence us and add to our bias, because we base our outlook on who sent the certain post. If you like them or not determines your bias towards a subject.

Everything is blown out of portion into the national and global level. When it simply is made up and not entirely true. So we need to hear the whole story before we rush it onto the daily news.

These phenomenons affect politics, because the people are demanding the government do something to end these "racial conflicts." When in reality it is just half the story being told and the other half is made up by Social Media, News Broadcasters, and the community.

My Index Page

Before: 

Changes:

• Made Responsive.
• Changed Text Sizes.
• Better CSS.
• Adjusted Menu Size.

After:

1. The hardest part about giving others constructive feedback was trying to tell them something was off and to put it nicely. 

2. I would try to explain an issue in more detail.

3. The super detailed feedback, like the feedback that told me what EXACTLY needed to be changed. That was super helpful. I didn't have to go around guess to change what needed to be changed. 

4. This was helpful, but also a little stressful.