This is a continuous project, focusing on a student taking on the role of webmaster for a university department’s WordPress website. The website is a public facing website representing the department, provides a repository for past projects completed by students of the department, while also providing a set of administrative tools to manage students currently involved in the department.
This role has a basic set of responsibilities that include:
- adding, editing, and removing users from the website
- based on feedback, improving the website’s readability, usability, and accessability
- ensuring the base functionality of the website, and responding to issues that crop up
- maintaining and adding to the content of the website
For this semester, additional goals for the webmaster role includes:
- improving administrative tools regarding the timesheet plugin used by the students
- documenting the timesheet plugin for future webmasters
- continue documenting the webmaster role’s responsibilities for future webmasters
- implementing and documenting an automated backup system for the website’s content
- implementing and documenting additional administrative tools regarding users and projects
Student Webmaster: Michael Draper
