Background Information!!

I am in the process of building this website for my internet communications class, here at Appalachian State University located in Boone, North Carolina where I am a communications major with a concentration in journalism. I am not your traditional college student I am 30 years old and was out of college for a few years, during the years in between my first go around in college and now, I was in the US Army and stationed in Germany during my time in. While I was in Germany, many new forms of social media were released but being stationed in Germany I did not have a smart phone, so I had no idea about these new forms of social media or how to use them until I came back stateside. When I decided to go back to school I wanted to do something that I truly love. That is why I decided I want to cover sports and more specific college football, for some reason this game is more attractive to me that the NFL. When I was growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s there was very limited access to teams and players. But with all the forms of social media out there today, it is impossible for teams and players to avoid being in the spotlight. So, for me to become a successful sports reporter/broadcaster I must be able to manage certain types of social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter just to name a few. This class on internet communication is going to help me learn. In the past couple of weeks we have had a couple of guest speakers come in and talk to our class Two that really stuck out to me and gave me some tips on how to build a website were Matthew Marco, and Ceci Dadisman. The first speaker we had was Matthew Marco and talked to us about the importance of web navigation, and the theory and practice of how people move from page to page. He told us how navigating functions on a web page, how navigation show us the locations on the website it can also show us the aboutness of a website, it can provide us with access to certain information on the site without going through the whole page just to find one tiny piece of information. Mr. Marco showed us how important it is to have good navigation on your website. Ceci Dadisman told us more of how to lay out our websites, based on studies and research that showed us where people tend to spend most time looking on webpages. She told us that there are certain areas where need to catch the viewer eye and attention and if we cannot do that, then we have lost because people tend to have short attention spans. So, with both guest speakers giving valuable advice and tips to managing an affective website I feel that I am on the right path to using social media to cover college football or any other sport.