If I were to give advice to someone creating a digital history site, I’d suggest that they take some time to look at other digital history sites first to see how others have organized and presented their topic. Jack and I learned a lot from giving our peers’ websites feedback, because we noticed elements of others’ websites that were really working, and we tried to take similar elements into our own website.

We also made massive lists throughout the semester with each little thing we needed to tweak or add to our website–and breaking the larger project into extremely small tasks, not only made the whole thing feel more manageable, but also helped keep our motivation up with it, because we could cross a few things off the list even if we could only manage to sit down and work on the project for a few minutes.

I think this was a really rewarding experience, and I feel very comfortable working with WordPress now! I’d tell anyone who came after me that they were going to put a lot of hours into their project between the research and then the actual building of their website, and it will be frustrating at times, but when it starts to come together and look the way you want it to, it will be worth it!