In my college career I have encountered WordPress in quite a few different classes. At first I was slightly intimidated with having to work with the site, but after doing an internship at Truman State University’s Special Collections department I felt fully confident in working with WordPress. As such, my difficulties in this course were not with creating with WordPress. Instead, my main issue was with having less time to work with the final product of the site with my partner. This might have been less of an issue if in the course blog there was more of a formal tone to the posts that related to the content that would need to appear on the site itself. So I would suggest for those students that come after me, that they work their content so that it has an element of their thoughts in one section and the formality for the final project in the rest of the section.
The project contract and the final product are matching in many of the areas that my partner and I said we would put together. We put focus on the dispossession of Native American lands in our county and campus and used resources not only from our historical society and campus, but also those that made connections to the present day. While the order of our menu for our site has changed from what we were initially going to place it still covers a significant portion of material that we planned to cover. It begins with our homepage that shows the location of Kirksville and the rivers that played a large role in the lives of Native Americans. The next page tells about the tribes that are within the local area. It gives background information as well as shows what their ancestral lands and current lands are today. We have also included information about the chief in the pictures that we chose. The site then moves on to contact with the French fur traders which turns trade into a large part of the lives of the Native Americans, and then move on to the dispossession of lands by major treaties. After presenting this information the next page is information as to what is going on currently for these tribes as while there are no federally recognized tribes in Missouri there are still people descended from those who lived in this area. Lastly, we bring to light the resources that we read with the addition of several others that were used in the making of this project