Creating a WordPress Site with FIU MyWeb

All FIU students have access to a WordPress environment called FIU MyWeb. MyWeb allows students to create websites and blogs for personal, academic, or professional use that is affiliated with their student FIU login.

There are many reasons students can benefit from using MyWeb in their Writing and Rhetoric classes.

  • WordPress is one of the most commonly used platforms for business and professional web hosting, including this Digital Writing Studio website. Gaining proficiency with WordPress is a valuable workplace skill in many different fields.
  • Web writing affords students many options for practicing public-facing and user-centered composition. In Writing and Rhetoric courses, students are developing the ability to read and compose within multiple genres and to learn to adapt design and style to various audiences and situations.
  • Developing proficiency and fluency with tools of technology is crucial for students in many disciplines. Writing classes are not the only courses that ask students to create digitally or multimodally, but writing and rhetoric classes are uniquely positioned to teach digital writing as a rhetorical composing process.
  • MyWeb allows students to create polished, professional-looking websites that are ad-free, and linked to their FIU identity, providing a scholarly ethos for their work.

MyWeb Demonstration

This video is a walk-through demonstration on creating and designing a website using FIU’s MyWeb, a WordPress platform for FIU students. Because this video is a demonstration of a design process, it is not a quick tutorial. You can use these time staps to navigate to different topics covered in the demo.

0:00 MyWeb introduction & registering1:35 WordPress dashboard2:30 Selecting a theme
6:43 Homepage settings for a blog (latest posts)7:50 Creating posts for a WordPress blog 9:04 Using blocks when creating a page or post
14:02 Designing a WordPress site as a blog16:32 Changing the theme17:51 Using a static homepage to de-blog the site
18:54 Menu for adding and editing tabs 20:56 Creating a separate tab for blog posts when using a static homepage 22:35 Publishing & further support

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