Final Production

Prior to the “Final Production” my website was laid out completley different. I had a homepage that was all informational and included photos, videos, and logos from Runners Roost that I pulled off of either their website or used photos I actually had taken for the run group. From the homepage there was an icon you could click in order to access all my blog posts. This last week I spent a lot of time completley revamping the set up and the look of my site. I felt like with out explaining where to locate the blogs nobody would have been able to find them unless I provided a direct link or photo of what the icon looked like. What I did instead was utilized the themes that are provided by WordPress and I made it so the homepage and blog posts all showed up on the same page. From there I added a lot of different blocks that were also provided that would be uniuqe to what infromation I would want to obtain from a vistor on my site. I also included a bunch of those photos I took from run club in real life as well as a funny Forrest Gump Gif at the bottom. Ultimatley I tried to make it more user friendly. It took me a long time of playing around to figure out how to start over without getting rid of all my blog assignments! In the future I would like to figure out how to incoporate more colors and different fonts as I had a hard time figuring this out with using a theme that was provided and also only being able to find outdated WordPress tutorials. Using themes provided the artist can restrict what you have the ability to customize.

I learned a lot about copright policies and what you should not post as well as good resources for content you are allowed to post. I also learned about the varities of anayltics tools. Since this website is for a class and not for a real life scenerio I did not create any accounts on with analytic websites and applications. This run group currently has a offical page up and running. I also enjoyed just general infromation in the beginning about which platfroms generate which age groups and how popular they are. Finally, I found it fun to brainstorm ways that you could use VR on a webpage or for a project for whatever company you may be working for! I took Tech and Social Media this semester as a required Sports Managment course where we also learned similar things that I learned in this class and it was fun because I already knew a lot about it and how to answer questions that Dr. Evans was asking. This is an area that I am interested in when i’m working for a company so knowing these things already puts me a step ahead of who they may have designated the role to in the meantime! Runners Roost doesn’t have an expierenced social media person putting together their website so it could turn into a great opportunity for me! Finally, I did discuss with my boss about the fact that they had constantly been using Google images for their posts and could get in trouble for that.

The assignment that asked for us to make social media examples was the one I decided to skip in the mindst of transitioning all five of my classes to an online setting. Therefore I spent a good chunk of time making some for this portion of the assignment. Two of my chosen social media channels were Facebook and Instagram. Below you will find an example for each and they will be promoting a run club event!

I decided to create an Infographic for my third social media content type. This is not one I initially thought of when I started. This was a fun and simple one to create that can be utilized to market and promote any event. This is also something you could print copies of and include in each customers bag upon purchase with a nutritional item or sticker to spread awareness and grow participants.