Monday, March 28th to Friday, April 1st, 2022
Want to create your own website? Join the WordPress Website Week challenge and win prizes while you experiment with tools for web development and create your own WordPress site! Web publishing will be done through Domain of One’s Own, a webhosting service available to all BMC community members. Sign up here to participate and we’ll add you to our Slack channel and keep you updated about challenge tasks and activities
Content Kits
Need inspiration for your website? Check out our curated ‘craft kits’ with texts and images that you can use on your website.
Learning Resources
These resources can help you get started with web design and development: learn WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and design skills.
Challenge Activities
All of our WordPress Week challenge tasks and a link to our Bingo Board!
How to get started?
Follow the directions here to create your own domain
Follow the directions here to set up your own WordPress
Schedule
March 25th:
*WordPress Website Week Introduction and Reclaim Host Session : Introduction into WordPress Website Week, explanation of schedule of events, and a look into Bryn Mawr’s Domain creation space, Domain of One’s Own.
*WordPress Website Workshop: Introduction into how to download your own instance of WordPress and a tour of the WordPress interface
March 28th – April 1st:
Monday through Friday during the week of March 28th we will be assigning tasks to the participants to do on their own time.
The tasks will be associated with a Bingo Board where each task will be a place on the bingo board – if you get Bingo, your Bingo Board will act as a raffle ticket. We will be raffling off two BMC Bookstore gift cards. All participants will receive swag from the event.
The tasks and the link to the bingo board will be available under the Daily Challenges tab
*We will also be hosting a HTML/CSS coding workshop on Tuesday, March 29th, which will teach participants basic website creation and customization.
April 3rd
Bingo Boards will be due 11:59pm
April 4th
We will be announcing the winners of the raffle
*These events are recommended to attend but not required for WordPress Website Week
Office Hours
Monday
- 4:00 – 5:00 PM WordPress Help (Sean)
Tuesday
- 4:00 – 5:00 PM WordPress Help (Karina)
Wednesday
- (4:00 – 5:00 PM WordPress Help (Sean)
Thursday
- (4:00 – 5:00 PM WordPress Help (Karina)
Questions? Email digitalscholarship@brynmawr.edu