Accessibility
Being accessible when designing a website is “the right thing to do.” If my website is the most user-friendly, then everyone in the world can enjoy it! When picking color schemes for my website I had to make several changes. I had the text over the header a lighter yellow, but it did not have enough contrast, so I had to make it a darker yellow. When I designed the favicon, I had a transparent background from the podcast cover that I created, but it also did not have enough contrast to be able to notice what it was well. Because of this, I made it black, so it has a contrast to the header photo as a site logo as well as the icon on the website tab. I was able to develop a transcript for all episodes of my podcast to make it more accessible to disabled persons that have the inability to hear it. I used alternative text for all images on my site and in my blog posts for the accessibility of visually impaired persons. Headers were used in all of my blog posts to allow readers to effectively find information and also allows listeners using screen reader to acknowledge that a different topic is being presented.
Media & Source Credit
I gave credit to my media and sources within my blog posts.
In the “Welcome to the Home of the Journey to Self-Discovery Podcast!” blog post the image provided is created by me using Canva. In the “About The Podcast Host,” blog post the image provided was one that a school photographer took of me at an awards ceremony. In the “Episode 1,” blog post the image is by Rosy / Bad Homburg / Germany from Pixabay. The intro and outro music were by Dana Music from Pixabay. The recorded sound was a clip from a motivational speech by Lisa Nichols published on YouTube by Flow Arcade. I also added two sources: How to Begin Your Self-Discovery Journey and Exploring self-discovery in the college years, to provide my listeners with articles relating to beginning their journeys especially through the college years. In the “Episode 2,” blog post the image was taken by my friend at an awards ceremony. The intro/outro and background music were by Dana Music from Pixabay. In the “Episode 3,” blog post the image is by Waldryano from Pixabay. The intro/outro and background music were by Dana Music from Pixabay. The quotes from Lisa Nichols’s speech are from the video Lisa Nichols Left The Audience Speechless video published on YouTube by Flow Arcade.
I used Microsoft Co-pilot for ideas on a website tagline. Below is my conversation with Co-Pilot.
Me: Can you give me a webiste tagline for my journey to self-discovery podcast website
Co-Pilot: Absolutely! Here are a few tagline ideas for your self-discovery podcast website:
1. **"Unlock Your True Potential"**
2. **"Journey Within, Discover Beyond"**
3. **"Empower Your Inner Self"**
4. **"Explore, Evolve, Empower"**
5. **"Your Path to Personal Growth"**
Do any of these resonate with you? If you have a specific theme or focus for your podcast, I can tailor the tagline even more!
Me: the podcast is telling my story of journey to self-discovery
Co-Pilot: That sounds like a powerful and personal podcast! Here are a few tagline ideas that reflect your journey to self-discovery:
1. **"My Path to Self-Discovery"**
2. **"Unveiling My True Self"**
3. **"A Personal Journey Within"**
4. **"Finding Myself, One Episode at a Time"**
5. **"My Story of Growth and Transformation"**
Do any of these capture the essence of your podcast? If you have any specific elements or themes you'd like to highlight, let me know and I can refine the taglines further!
Information Accuracy
Most of the information provided is from my personal life experiences. I felt I was equipped to speak on the topic of self-discovery because I have been on my journey for as long as I have since I graduated high school in 2019 and struggled to find my way. The sources I used to add some detailed information on starting a self-discovery helps really lay out the process and the benefits to the listeners and readers. I wanted my podcast to come from the heart. This is something I am really passionate about inspiring others to do that I knew words would just start to flow as I spoke in each episode. The information is true to me, and I wanted to introduce my authentic self to the world in hopes my story will inspire others.
Copyright License
I chose the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license because I did not want anyone taking my ideas and changing them in any way. This is my life story to share, and I wouldn’t want any of it misconstrued. I also would not want anyone using it for commercial purposes to make money. If they would like to share it, I would love that! However, if it is shared, I picked this license because I want anyone doing so to put a direct link to my website, so that the viewer knows exactly where it came from and can explore my site.
Website Construction Process
- I created a subdomain called “journey to self discovery podcast” and installed WordPress on it.
- I chose the Miniva theme for my site because I liked the simplicity of the example website from my contract.
- I then designed a podcast cover using Canva that I used in my welcome blog post and as the header background on the site.
- I then designed a site logo and favicon using Canva.
- Next, I created my site Categories to include a Home page, About page, and Episodes page with links to each episode.
- I played around with the color of the header text to add more contrast to it for the viewer to see better and changed the color of link/accents.
- I added a footer widget to include my copyright license.
- Finally, I designed and created my Welcome blog post and published it under the Home category.
- I then created my About me blog post and published it under the About category.
- Lastly, I recorded, edited, and embedded all 3 episodes of my podcast into blog posts and published them under the Episodes category each with their own tab.
- The equipment that I used for the podcasts was a lapel mic. The podcasts were recorded via voice memo on an iPhone. I used Soundtrap to edit the audio.