Building a WordPress Site for Sports Academy of Kouvola
Helander, Aaro (2015)
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015052610509
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015052610509
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The objective of this study was to create two WordPress based websites for the Sports Academy of Kouvola. The Main functions of the Sports Academy website are to enable effi-cient marketing for upcoming events and to act as a billboard for company news and other public announcements. The scope included creating the basic layout and functionality for the site, and did not include creating the actual content for the site – except for the essential in-formation transferred from the old site.
The site was drafted using Twitter Bootstrap 3 as a front-end framework. A template layout was created which was then converted to a WordPress theme. All essential functions – such as the landing page, blog page and other relevant pages were created, and by the time the project was considered complete, the existing design was re-created using a theme called Divi 2 from Elegant Themes – a company creating themes and plugins for WordPress.
The thesis was started in late 2014, and the site was completed in March 2015, but due to lack of resources and available content the site was published in April 2015.
The learning objectives were to understand how WordPress works by creating a theme from scratch, and then evaluating the pros and cons of creating a site from scratch versus using a commercial theme.
This thesis is aimed at people with a basic understanding of terminology and conventions related web design.
The site was drafted using Twitter Bootstrap 3 as a front-end framework. A template layout was created which was then converted to a WordPress theme. All essential functions – such as the landing page, blog page and other relevant pages were created, and by the time the project was considered complete, the existing design was re-created using a theme called Divi 2 from Elegant Themes – a company creating themes and plugins for WordPress.
The thesis was started in late 2014, and the site was completed in March 2015, but due to lack of resources and available content the site was published in April 2015.
The learning objectives were to understand how WordPress works by creating a theme from scratch, and then evaluating the pros and cons of creating a site from scratch versus using a commercial theme.
This thesis is aimed at people with a basic understanding of terminology and conventions related web design.