Week 4

This program is going by quickly. In the next two weeks I have to complete a mock website for an organization called Future Up, I have to make my own website design company webpage, and find an entrepreneur to make a website for him/her. The hardest part of getting all this done is procrastinating, and learning more techniques to add features to all the websites. The one thing that is slowing me down is WordPress. I am using WordPress in the user form so that means themes, and plug-ins are very limited. Iishe, my partner in the Future Up project, and I were struggling to find a theme that will fit our vision of what the website should be for our client. To explain, Future Up is a new name for Jefferson County Public Education Foundation (JCPEF). The JCPEF is an organization that mediates donations, financial support that people give them and gives them to specific school programs. They are often confused with the Jefferson County Public School Board. Because of this and their long name they have changed their name to Future Up and created a new logo for the foundation. They currently are trying to make themselves more in the public scene so people can know who they are. Being able to make a website for them is such a privilege. The executive director of Future Up, Sam Corbett, actually contacted us to make his website and be his social media consultants. When I was doing even more research for the website I realized that one of the members of the foundation is actually the co-owners of the job I intern for! I also realized that the chairman of Future Up (James Allen) is the CEO of this investment company called Hilliard Lyons.  Guess what building I’m interning in? The building of Hilliard Lyons! So making a website for this foundation is my destiny! I am slowly overcoming the difficulties of Word press and thankfully there are video tutorials if I need help on how to do something.