Blacksburg to Guatemala Archive

Joshi, Arth; Agarwal, Ankit; Crowson, John

Blacksburg to Guatemala Archive

dc.contributor.author	Joshi, Arth	en
dc.contributor.author	Agarwal, Ankit	en
dc.contributor.author	Crowson, John	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-15T02:00:01Z	en
dc.date.available	2015-05-15T02:00:01Z	en
dc.date.issued	2015-05-14	en
dc.description	Blacksburg2Guatemala website allows the Christ Church parishes to share stories and culture with one another. This is an easy way to archive stories that would otherwise be lost. The website can be viewed at: http://blacksburg2guatemala.wordpress.com. The separate file for the testing report (BburgGuatemalaJoshiTestingEdited.pdf) summarizes work prior to the final report.	en
dc.description.abstract	The primary objective of the Blacksburg to Guatemala Archive Project is to create a medium for cultural exchange between Christ Church, Blacksburg, and their sister parish in San Andres Itzapa, Guatemala. This project will create a website and will allow for these two parishes to remain in close contact following the recent visit of a delegation from Christ Church, Blacksburg, to Guatemala in January 2015. We are completing this project as soon as possible in order to minimize the delay between their visit and the establishment of such a cultural exchange. Both parishes will benefit from our project, satisfying a desire to remain in-touch and embrace cultural differences. We decided to use WordPress to offer the simplest possible solution. WordPress will allow the client to easily maintain stories on the website and will also give readers an easy way to enjoy them. We chose a simple theme and then further perfected it to reduce any complications. We decided to only display aspects that were absolutely necessary to the project. Aside from the stories, categories and search are the only other modules that are visible to the readers. The website also allows users to leave comments on every story so they can interact with the parishes in an easy way. Another big request from the client’s end was to allow for stories written in Spanish. We incorporated WordPress’s bilingual tools to support this functionality. Stories can be written in either language and they will be formatted appropriately. A search engine has also been implemented to display results in both English and Spanish. Overall, the website was a success. The primary focus was usability and the tests we ran proved the website was easy to use. The client was also happy with the results and can see the website being very useful to both parishes.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Kimberley Homer (homerk@vt.edu)	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52333	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/	en
dc.subject	Blacksburg	en
dc.subject	Guatemala	en
dc.subject	cultural exchange	en
dc.subject	church website	en
dc.subject	archive	en
dc.title	Blacksburg to Guatemala Archive	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
dc.type	Software	en
dc.type	Technical report	en