Unit 3 Lesson 3

1. DO NOW IN JOURNAL:
HOW CAN YOU USE
IMAGES/VIDEO TO HELP YOUR
MENTOR UNDERSTAND YOUR
PERSONAL PROJECT?

2. Website Qualities Checklist:
1. Ugly, low quality, distracting,
or irrelevant graphics should be
avoided.

3. Website Qualities Checklist:
2. Information should be easy
to find.

4. Website Qualities Checklist:
3. The home page should not
be crammed with information.

5. Website Qualities Checklist:
4. The purpose of each page
should be clear immediately.

6. Website Qualities Checklist:
5. Readers know where they are
and where they can go.

7. Website Qualities Checklist:
6. Navigation, or the menu, must
be simple and consistent.

8. Website Qualities Checklist:
7. The text and background
colors should contrast for clear
and easy reading.

9. Website Qualities Checklist:
8. Font size shouldn’t be too
large or too small.

10. Website Qualities Checklist:
9. Avoid presenting too much
information in the same space.

11. Website Qualities Checklist:
10. Design elements, such as
font and color choices, should
be consistent from page to
page.

12. You need to verify the email from
wordpress.com:
login.microsoftonline.com

13. If you put in the wrong email you need
to change your email
at wordpress.com:

14. You need to verify the email from
wordpress.com:
login.microsoftonline.com

15. Open this URL in your Chrome
browser:
wordpress.com

16. Click Log In:

17. Type your
uplift
Username,
and
Password.

18. Click My Sites in the
top left corner of
the webpage!

19. Click the settings
gear symbol in the
top right of the
white box. Choose
the Go to Admin
Dashboard

20. Hover over the “Appearance”
option and more options with
pop up. Choose Customize.

21. Click “Site Title”
Title: Advertising in Motorsports
Tagline: The Effects of Sponsors
in Formula 1 Racing

22. Click “Save”
Wait for it to finish saving
and then hover over dark
bar where the menu was to
bring it back. Click the “X”
to return to the dashboard.

23. Click “Pages”
On the left hand menu of
your Dashboard screen.

24. Hover your mouse over the
page to bring up and click
on the “Edit” option
(your page is “About”)

25. Look at the top of the page for
the AUTOSAVE and
open/review it. Now retrieve
the Autosave draft.

26. Change the name of
the page to “Who?”

27. Open this URL in your Chrome browser
in a new tab:
tinyurl.com/motorimages

28. Click on the image of the female
Nascar driver. Alt+Click
on the
expanded
image to
copy URL

29. Place your cursor before the word Due in the
third paragraph (the blinking line that appears
when you click).

30. Now click Add Media (above the text box).

31. Now click Insert from URL.

32. Now paste the image URL with CTRL+V.

33. Click on the image to bring up the edit pencil
icon, click the pencil icon.

34. Under DISPLAY SETTINGS, Align: click Right

35. Click the image and grab a corner to
decrease the size by half.

36. Repeat these steps with the Jeff
Gordon toothpaste image.
Copy the URL. Insert Media.
Past URL. Align Left. Shrink to half
the size.

37. When you PREVIEW it should look
like this:

38. Move your cursor (click below) to
the end of the last paragraph.
Click Add Media.
Click Insert YouTube and
search “Sponsorship in
Motorsport - Is it
important?” Choose the
first video and
insert.
.

40. Congratulations! You are well on your
way to building your own websites in
WordPress full of your personal research
content!
Use the remainder of the time to check your email at
login.microsoftonline.com remember to click Outlook
and use your full email
to sign in. It starts with WIP and ends with
students.uplifteducation.org
You can access my example at tinyurl.com/mrjamesemail

41. Links for today:
1. wordpress.com
2. tinyurl.com/racingwho
3. tinyurl.com/motorimages
4. tinyurl.com/mrjamesemail