By week 3 we were finally ready to make the transition over to Wordpress. As a content management system, Wordpress is similar to Blogger, something that everybody in the class is familiar with due to the necessity of blogging throughout the course. This made it easy for everybody to upload their own written stories, meaning that all I would need to do is sub the stories, and make sure that the picture was suitable, before uploading.
We already had about 3 features waiting to be published somewhere, so we felt that we should try to make the most of these, our page layout consisted of a slider at the top of the page, sliding through our features, and the news stories, with fairly large pictures underneath. We were vaguely basing this style on The Daily Mail's 'Femail' features page. We finally had the scenario that we had needed for a long time, a set production plan that everything else had to follow, rather than planning our production around the content that we had available to us.
By the end of Wednesday, the new site was full of new stories, all with pictures and I was beginning to feel happy about the site as a whole. It was obviously important however, that the sight remained live throughout the week, and wasn't only updated with the bulletin on a Wednesday, we were hoping that from this point on, circulation on the site would start to increase, particularly as we now had a rival in eastlondonlines, whose alexa ranking was considerably higher than ours
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