Manraj’s Final Blog
During my week here I have made and posted content for Village Web Company CIC, Created a E-safety guide to keep people safe whilst gaming, created and printed my Christmas design and created a Google spreadsheet about girls with ADHD.
Ethan ‘my week at village web company’.
I have redesigned a website to the best of my abilities in wordpress and in my opinion it has turned out pretty well. I have currently made all the pages for the website.
If I were to do it again I would probably add more pictures to the pages and choose a more customizable theme so I could make the colour theme ,black and yellow, more apparent. However I do think I have done a good job for my first website with word press. The most challenging part of this experience was when one of the plugins was not working as it was intended because of the theme so I had to adapt and get it work in a different way by instead of putting it in as its self I put it in as shortcode. Here is one of the pages where I had to do this and how they look in the website.
Here is the finished product.
we also made a design for a e safety information sheet to shown parents the dangers of some games and how to keep there children safe.
I also made 3 3d print designs a vwc coin. a chrstmas tree and bawble. and successfully printed a coin.
3D Printing Tutorials
How to remove the filament:
- In the main menu, select the temperature option, then select nozzle.
- Set the temperature to 190
- Then return to the info screen, and you will see the nozzle temperature is going up.
- Once the temperature has reached 190, find the spring on the side of the printer, where the filament is being inserted into.
- Push this spring down to be able to pull the filament out of the tube.
- Return to the temperature screen, and then scroll down until you see the cooldown option. Select this option.
- The filament has been successfully removed.
How to insert the filament:
- Mount the spool onto the spool holder at the top of the printer.
- Push down the spring on the side of the printer.
- Pass the filament through the hole that opens when the spring is pushed down.
- Push the filament through the tube all the way to the nozzle, until you start to feel some resistance.
- On the printer screen, go to the main menu and scroll down until you see the option print from media. Select this option.
- Then scroll down until you see the XYZ calibration cube. Select this option.
- Confirm the print and it will start printing.
General E-Safety
Nowadays technology is so prevalent that kids under 3 will have access to technology and will regularly use it their whole life. With such technology there comes a lot of risks, one such being videogames, videogames and apps are not necessarily bad, however sometimes the people on the games or the social media apps can cause a lot of harm and long lasting effects. Thankfully, there are a multitude of ways to prevent it, first let’s mention what some of the games and apps are and then some safety tips regarding them.
Fortnite
Fortnite is a popular battle royale game where players compete to be the last one standing. It involves combat, strategic building, and collaboration with other players.
Safety Tips:
1 – Parental Controls: Use the in-game parental controls to manage who your child can communicate with.
2 – Monitor Multiplayer: Despite it being a battle royale, there are other modes such as creative where users can make and do anything, ensure they only play age appropriate games.
3 – Manage Friend Requests: Make sure that the people your child adds are people they know in real life.
4 – Purchases: Ensure that any purchase is a one-time thing and remove the card from the account once the purchase is made, otherwise the child could easily keep buying items in the game.
5 – Communication: Disable/limit voice chat so any strangers can’t talk to your child and they can’t talk back to them.
Call of Duty (COD)
COD is a first-person shooter game known for its realistic graphics and intense gameplay. It often features team-based missions and multiplayer modes.
Safety Tips:
1 – Communication: Disable/limit voice chat so that strangers will not be able to talk to your child
2 – Discuss online safety: Ensure your child know what not to say to strangers if they manage to speak to people online
3 – Manage Friend Requests: Ensure that your child does not add every single person they see and instead only add people they know in real life
4 – Teach : Teach your child that games are different to real life
The way to keep safe on both these games are quite similar, here is a game where little to no supervision is required:
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox game that encourages creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration. Players can build and explore virtual worlds made up of blocks.
The way in which Minecraft is more of a safe game is that it has a popular single player mode where players can build, explore and create contraptions. The only problem that can come is multiplayer, if your child joins servers then anyone can talk to them, there is a way to disable the chat though and if the child is on PlayStation or Xbox then not having PsPlus or Xbox Live will disable multiplayer and make it so they can only play single player.
Snapchat
Snapchat is a social media app that allows users to send photos and videos that disappear after being viewed. It also has a messaging feature and various filters.
Safety Tips:
1 – Privacy Settings: Set your child’s account to private to control who can see their snaps.
2 – Friend Requests: Teach your child to only accept friend requests from people they know
3 – Monitor Usage: Regularly check who your child is communicating with and what they are sharing.
4 – Discuss Online Behaviour: Educate your child about the risks of sharing personal information and inappropriate content.
Instagram will be pretty similar, the main takeaway is to monitor their online usage and to disable/monitor friend requests on these apps and for videogames to limit voice chat and monitor the age rating of severs/lobbies that the child could join. There is an app where children can socialise with little to no harm and that is:
WhatsApp:
WhatsApp is an app where you can easily message, call, facetime ,make group chats and it is totally secure as in order to use WhatsApp you need a phone number.
This means that if your child wants to talk to their friend all they need is their phone number and they can talk to them on WhatsApp with little to no risk. As long as your child doesn’t get access to someone else’s number that they shouldn’t have access to then they should be fine.
Guide on using HTML
The way to make a website using HTML is actually quite simple, here is a few steps on how to get started:
Step 1:
First make a folder and save it somewhere where you can easily access it for example, your desktop
Step 2:
Open up your code editor, for me its VS code, once it is open, you should click on create new file and call it ‘index.html’ , save the file in the folder that you have already created.
If you click on the file in the folder it will open it in the browser, this will be important later.
Step 3:
In the file called ‘index.html’ type out ‘html:5’ and click enter and then add ‘-gb’ to where the language is, this will make it so that the language is set to the UK and not American English, if everything is done you should be left with this
now that you have a basic template done you can follow these next steps to see what else is possible with html
Step 4:
<h1> level one heading </h1>
<h2> level two heading</h2>
<h3>level three heading</h3>
<h4>level four heading</h4>
<h5>level five heading</h5>
<h6>level six heading</h6>
Using this makes it so that each heading will be smaller then the previous one so heading one will be the biggest.
Step 5:
<p> paragraph </p>
this line of code is just so you can input a block of text, now using the information learned, we can put them together and make this:
Remember to save any changes and now you should have a decent understanding of how to use html to make a website.
Ethan’s work so far at VWC
So far I have been taught how to use a website creator called word press and I have made some 3d models. I have also updated and helped remake a website.
Ethan Intro blog post
I am Ethan a student from Stockport school (https://stockportschool.net/) and for a week will be doing a work placement at village web company as an assistant web developer where I will be helping make and maintain websites. I already like working with computers so I hope this will give me more skills with them. Also I hope to learn many other useful skills from this placement.
Manraj’s Intro Blog Post
Hi, my name is Manraj and I am spending the week at CIC Village Web Company. I am doing digital marketing which means I am helping create and market to social media to help promote the brand. I am hoping to learn how to market successfully whilst I am here.
Using our coding skills to develop a plugin for WordPress
We have developed a plugin called Hello Worthy, which takes the idea of the Hello Dolly plugin, and turns it into a tips for beginners function.
This is a quote of text that is found at the top right of the dashboard, which shows helpful tips for users who are new to developing websites on WordPress.
The Hello Worthy plugin uses PHP and CSS as the coding language. The original code for Hello Dolly would display lyrics from a song as the quote on the top right of the dashboard. We have replaced these quotes with our beginner tips. A quote from the list is then randomly selected whenever the dashboard page is loaded.
This is helpful for new developers to WordPress as it can remind developers what is recommended for them to do, without needing to search for this information themselves.