Internship Day 2

Yesterday was another pretty exciting day at my internship in WFU's athletic department. As I said the other day, I wrote about 10 bios for some of the Wake athletic staff that were to be put on the website. When I arrived at the office yesterday, my supervisor gave me a few corrections for the bios then taught me how to upload all of the bios to the website.

Wake's athletic department website is run through Netitor, a web manager that already seems to be easier to use and more efficient than the one that I was using at Turner. (I will never forget the day that the Turner press site manager was down because it was also the day that TWO really important press releases needed to be posted). Anyway, that is neither here nor there. Netitor is extremely simple to use and was also very fast.

First, I uploaded all of the headshots of the individuals whose bios I was creating. Then, with each picture I filled out an information page that included a large block of space for the bio I had written. Once I finished doing all of these, I had to get the links to these bio pages attached to the individuals' names on the staff directory page. This is where the fun began!

My supervisor taught me how to do some basic HTML coding that would allow me to create the aforementioned link for each of the staff bios. I had never done any HTML coding before, but it reminded me a lot of the basic computer programming that we were taught in elementary and middle school. Once I did a few, I got the hang of what needed to be done for each of the staff members so that the correct link would be attached to their name on the staff directory page. I'm really glad I got to learn some basic HTML coding and I hope I get to use it some more. I know that will be practical in the future.

I am not going in for my internship today because the media relations team is over at BB&T field getting set up for the football game against Presbyterian tomorrow. I will be going in tomorrow though to interview a cross-country runner who has been participating and dominating in many international triathlons. I'm excited to get started on writing features for the website; writing feature stories is probably one of my favorite things to do. I'm nervous though because I'm not sure the angle that I should take for this story. Hopefully it will come to me during my interview with this guy!

Until next time,
Calais