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Thank you so much for this amazing class, Amanda!

I have learned a lot of stuff about WordPress and the design in general. I really appreciate your individual help with themes installing and walking me thru the starting point of my website.

Thanks a lot!

 

I would like to have an app for my fake “Tiger Home Improvement” business. It would be used for some information about the company, as well as the to schedule an appointment.

The app should be easier for the users than navigating over the website. It will have just the necessary information to help customers to be up to date, find the necessary information about the company, and schedule an estimate or an appointment.

 

My favorite app is Instagram. I use it for my personal blog. I like everything in it. The interface, colors, and the ability to share your posts, pictures, videos, and stories. I also like the ability to create live chats and gather all the people.

It’s also nice to receive comments and see how many people liked your post.

The audience for this app is the people from all over the world. There’s a lot of them and you can have your own target audience regarding the kind of business you’re doing.

The only thing that I don’t like, is that you’re unable to have a longer video, like on YouTube and that you cannot use the whole functionality of the app on the desktop.

I will attach one of the pictures from my last post.

 

I like being constantly connected because of many things.

I’m having my Instagram blog about life in the US, and because of it, I have to be constantly available. I love that! Receiving a lot of messages, comments, advises, questions, and so on every day. It’s very inspiring. I get a lot of motivation to write more and more and be more communicative.

The only thing I don’t like in being constantly connected is that some people are sending messages or even call late at night.

Also, if you are becoming more popular, you are getting a lot of attention to your profile, as well as some weird people, who keep spamming you.

I loved much stuff in WordPress. For example, the themes, there are many of them. I liked the way how you can add many different apps to your website.

I didn’t like that there’s not that much way to do the customization if you’re not familiar with HTML & CSS.

I was comparing that with Wix. So it loads much faster with WordPress, as well as the search engines work better in WordPress, but I also didn’t really like the work with plugins and the lack of customization.

I didn’t have the right picture for this post, so I will just add me 🙂

It’s not so safe nowadays to communicate online for a variety of reasons.

First of all, you never know who are you communicating with, even if there’s the picture on the profile. Also, some people agree to meet for coffee after communication, or they give some personal information as well as their address.

That’s just one side of the problems. The other one is that you cannot control your children. They can watch and learn everything they want from the Internet. They also might be communicating with someone dangerous, when you have no idea about that.

Also, we have got so many online frauds in the world we live in. I had this experience recently. I came back from home and got a message, that my bank account is low on money. I remembered that I had there around $700 and didn’t spend them on anything. I opened the bank account and see all the charges that I didn’t do. I called the bank immediately and closed the card. They gave me money back, but it wasn’t a good experience anyway.

It all depends on the person. For example, I’m not a fan of using Instagram or Facebook by watching stupid videos. I do it very rarely, and most of the time if someone sends it to me. 🙂 At the same time, I have many friends, who enjoy doing it, they also complain that the Internet takes a lot of time from their life.

For me personally, I love using technologies to save some time. For example, talking about the kitchen, we have so many stuff nowadays that we don’t even have to cook 🙂 I’m talking about multicookers, electric mixers, and many other things, like dishwashers.

If you’re in a hurry for the business trip or vacation, you can use plain, and it saves a lot of time.

We also have many programs that save our time during work, studies, or anything else.

I enjoy a lot living in the technology era! 🙂

 

When we didn’t have access to the Internet everywhere, we used to work from the office or home desktop only. We read more books than searching over the Internet for something.

It all changed now when we have an access to the Internet from Everywhere. We have free Wifi everywhere today, and we can work from different places with our laptop, like coffee shops, for example. It is very helpful for freelancers and people who like working from different places all the time.

Also, there’re many software and apps created right now so we can work being online. For example, home improvement, moving, HR companies.

In general, it’s very helpful to have an Internet access at work!

When I was young, we used to communicate without the Internet. We knew each other from school, friends’ friends, and neighbors. It was a lot of fun. We spent the whole day playing around and doing homework. It all changed right now. We make friends online in different social networks, and websites. You can meet anyone you want online, your husband/wife, your soulmate, your boss, etc.

There’re so many websites for different people, with different interests. For example, if you like running, teaching, reading, skating, dancing, you can find people of your age, who like doing that as well.

I remember as I made my first friend online. I was learning English back to school. I used Skype and Facebook for that a lot. I met a guy from Argentina in one of the English learning groups. We started communicating on Skype, it was very helpful for my language. We used to communicate a lot, and now chat sometimes on Facebook after so many years.

When I was in high school, we had to go to the regular hospital to check what’s wrong with us. Nowadays, there’re so many ways to manage your health without going to the hospital. For example, we have lots of phone apps to see how many calories we burn every day, what’s hour heart rate, how long you should walk per day, what should you eat, and so on.

We also have many apps to do physical exercises, like Nike and Lose it, where you can insert your weight and other information, and it will give you the recommendations and even the diet especially for you. That is very helpful in case you don’t exactly know which exercises you should do or what kind of food you should eat, the app can help to figure that out.

Talking about hospitals, it’s easy now to make an appointment online, or through the app, or we can also chat with the representatives instead of calling and waiting on the line to make an appointment or get a consultation.

It’s also easy nowadays to check any diseases online, as well as how to cure that, what’s very comfortable.