I’ve been researching into how best to create the news website for the ARG I’m working on with my limited web design skills. The best route I’ve found seems to be to use WordPress and use a custom theme I’ve found (http://www.wpthemedesigner.com/2008/11/26/slickpress-theme/) to get the geneal styling of a newspaper website. I’ll then adjust the CSS in order to fit it to our needs. I’ve learnt that you can upload WordPress to a webspace on your own server which seems pretty easy (although obviously I’ve yet to try it) or just host it on WordPress.com and have a purchased domain name point at it. Either way this seems a very useful discovery for me not just for my placement and providing the news site for the game, but also for creating a portfolio website of my own work.
