What is the Missouri KIDS project about?
Missouri KIDS is a great non-profit organization that serves our community by helping disabled student-athletes. Missouri KIDS project is an improvement project. They already had a website which is not functioning well nor visible by the search engines. In St. Charles Community College, we got the project as a class project and I assigned for the following.
- WordPress Settings – General Tab, Reading Tab, Discussion Tab, Media Tab, Permalinks Tab, Writing Tab, Privacy.
- Legal Pages – Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions.
- Reducing WordPress revision.
- WireFraming of main and individual athlete pages.
- Main “Our Athletes” page.
- About 25 individual athlete pages.
Starting the job:
WordPress settings are simple but knowledge-based settings. These are some of the settings I did: Site title and tagline, date and time formats, home page from a blog page to a static page, disabled the robots.txt until the site is ready to be published, changed discussion setting to the best available for Missouri KIDS, changed permalinks for SEO.
For the legal pages; I basically edited the provided Privacy policy and terms & conditions pages to represent MissouriKIDS better.
I used a third party plugin called wp-optimizer for the WordPress revisions. That is a cool plugin with a pretty good rating and download rate. Once I’m ready, I practiced the plugin on an empty WordPress site I created.
After that, I tried the plugin on my own website, I backed up WordPress twice to make sure we have back up if anything goes wrong. Everything was ok and backups were in safe storage and I run the app.
I also did the leverage browsing caching in the .htaccess file to speed up caching process.
Longest page of the website.
For the whole project, we received limited content from MissouriKIDS and we didn’t have exsisting website that has enough content to move. We had to find the most creative way to put the available content in an eye-catching way. I guess we all did pretty well.
While working on the main athletes’ page;
- Created the wireframe for both individual and main athlete pages and created the skeleton page on WordPress.
- Edited the written content to add some long tail keywords.
- Sent the student pictures to Daniella(graphic designer) to change the sizes and turn them into web images.
- Placed the SEO Optimized written content to their place for each student and placed the images.
- Alt/title tagged every image for ADA and SEO.
- Linked every student to their individual page by creating [read more] link, their picture, and name.
Last, I had to go help the individual student pages. Good, I met with them all before while working on the main athletes’ page. Now, it’s time to know more about them.
I assigned for the second half of the students in alphabetic order which means about 25 students. To use the limited content and time wisely we had to sit and plan before we create the pages.
- Fixed the written content for SEO.
- Added quotation for the students who said something about MissouriKIDS.
- Pictures were edited and resized already by Daniella (graphic designer) so we placed them.
- Added image carousel for the additional images.
- Add their alt tags and finalized the pages.
Ready to see the final product? Visit MissouriKids.
Missouri KIDS project was a fun project with a very creative team. I personally really liked to work with a great them with two great team leaders. I also think that we came up with a great end product.
