McPeak Designs Abstract

Through the process of working with my initial graduate internship at Liberty Farms, I have compiled a good selection of clients for future design  projects. When I took a trip to San Francisco, I showed some some of my portfolio to people and from there I was able to generate 3 new clients and this is important because it was a major shift in my capstone that helped me and made my capstone a stronger project.
As stated initially I had one client, but from showing my work I was able to generate 3 additional clients, so now my capstone has moved from making 1 wordpress based website, to selection of wordpress sites that can be used to show my progress and understanding of the wordpress itself. With this many wordpress sites being made I made the decision to make my capstone into a business portfolio presentation rather than a wordpress presentation. It is with the development of my understanding of wordpress as well as my business minor, that I can combined the two to create a successful career and portfolio to display on capstone night.

With my capstone being so based around wordpress and the progression, I really want to be able to showcase the fact that people can build functional websites rather than just blogs with this new technology. Overall the shift from hardcoding websites to creating wordpress based themes with enhanced widgets, is becoming a growing trend that offers a huge market.

Overall I chose wordpress rather than squarespace or any other web building app because it is more rounded and servers/hosts are very fond of using wordpress based sites. The transitions and working with wordpress as well as the amount of tutorials is something that makes it a good choice to start a business. For my business and the clients I am currently helping, their understanding of the web design and design in general is very minimal, so given my experience and past knowledge, learning wordpress features and has translated in actual work and has created a job for me. As stated before I have 3 new clients on top of the existing clients that I am already working for which is a good start to running a business and makes me want to learn the new technology that much more.

 

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  1. Good summary of process; however

    Can you just insert a 1-2 paragraph description of the final project? 1) What’s the need/issue/context? 2) How does your project address it conceptually & technically? What features make wordpress a good choice? What’s special about your project–it’s an actually $$making business…

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