Project 2: a small site structure #

In this project you plan and build the content of a small site: a student club with news, events and a few pages. You use only the administration, so it fits every learning path.

Contents #

1. At a glance
2. Goal
3. Before you start
4. Tasks
5. Hand in
6. Rubric
7. Stretch goals

At a glance #

Goal #

A folder "Student club" with at least three sub folders, nine published items, images from the media library, a chosen order, one item in two places, and a site map that matches what the site shows.

Before you start #

• Read Creating and editing content, Media and uploads and Publishing, versions and the trash.
• Optional: install the clean site package (sevenx_multisite_clean) for an empty site to start from (Site packages for learners). On the default package, build inside your own folder.
• Draw the planned tree on paper, for example:

Student club
  +-- News            (3 articles)
  +-- Events          (3 articles, or Club events from project 1)
  +-- About us        (3 articles: who we are, how to join, contact)

Tasks #

1. Build the folders from your plan with Create here.
2. Write nine items and publish them. Use invented text, no personal data.
3. Upload three images to the media library and use them in three articles (How do I insert an image in the online editor?).
4. Order the sub items of "About us" by priority: open its Ordering tab, choose Priority, click Set, then give priorities and click Update priorities (How do I change the order of sub items?).
5. Add a second location: put one news article also under "Events" with Add a location, which makes it appear in another place without being copied (Creating and editing content). Edit its title once and check both places.
6. Leave a draft: start editing an article, press Store draft and exit, and find it again under My drafts (Getting started).
7. Go back a version: change an article twice, then make a new draft from the first version (Publishing, versions and the trash).
8. Hide and unhide: hide "About us" with Advanced > Hide / unhide, look at the site, unhide it (Publishing, versions and the trash).
9. Remove and restore: remove one article and restore it from the trash (Publishing, versions and the trash).
10. Check on the site that the tree and the order are what you planned. Clear the content cache if a list is stale (Understanding caches).

Hand in #

• The site map: your plan and the final tree, side by side, with the node numbers.
• Screenshots of: the ordering tab, the item with two locations (its Locations tab), the versions of the article from task 7, the trash before restoring.
• A short report: what changed between plan and result, and why.

Rubric #

Score the four common criteria of Grading your own work, and these checks (8):

1. At least three sub folders and nine published items.
2. Three images come from the media library.
3. "About us" is ordered by priority, as planned.
4. One item has two locations, and the report explains that it is one object.
5. A draft was stored and finished.
6. A version was restored as a new draft.
7. Hide and restore were done and shown with screenshots.
8. All content is invented; no personal data.

Stretch goals #

• Tag the articles (How do I tag content?).
• Use the multi-node edit to change several items in one form (The content model and editing content).
• Check your site with Setup > Unreferenced objects and Broken relations, the content checks (What does the content check find?).

Related pages #

• Study projects: overview
• Project 4: a page with layouts
• Learning path: editor
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.