Month: March 2025

How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use it? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more deeply?

I would be able to help them but because I don’t have that much experience with it, I wouldn’t be particularly confident. The amount of stock videos and animations was interesting. It’s kind of difficult to adjust the length of time that an image appears to a specific time. I wonder how often WeVideo gets updated because it feels old and outdated to use. Overall, I think WeVideo is much less user-friendly than CapCut. The interface feels less intuitive, and I wish Vivero would train students on CapCut instead, as it has a cleaner design and is easier to use. Also, I think CapCut is more widely known—I’ve heard of many people using it, but I had never heard of WeVideo before today.

Reflect in a blog post in your portfolio site on your project work so far, and on your plans for the rest of the semester after Spring Break (at least 300 words). What have you accomplished? What are your next steps? What issues or obstacles have you encountered that you have resolved or that you are still thinking through? What lingering questions do you have about the project or about your next steps?

As the semester progresses, I’ve been working on developing a website for the 3D Printing Lab, and the process has been both exciting and full of unexpected decisions. Initially, I wanted to build the site using Node.js, which would have given me more flexibility and an opportunity to deepen my backend development skills. However, after discussing with Tierney and Max, I decided to go with WordPress since it has more support, making it easier to maintain in the long run. While I still think I would have had a lot more fun building it from scratch in Node.js, this allows the project to be more sustainable after I leave.

Recently, I gained access to the preexisting Burling Digital Studio WordPress site, which serves as the foundation for the new 3D Printing Lab website. I am still unsure whether we should have a separate subdomain just for the 3D printing information, but that is something I will bring up to Max eventually. Right now, my next steps will be restructuring the site to better fit our needs and incorporating WordPress plugins to allow 3D model viewing and calendar event integration.

I wonder, after I finish updating the Burling Digital Studio website, what my next steps will be. A thought that has been lingering in my mind is I should build the Node.js version anyway—either as a standalone project or as a hybrid solution that integrates with WordPress. A custom admin board could bridge the gap between my original idea and the current approach, offering more control while still keeping WordPress for content management. I still find the idea of Node.js quite exciting, and I think it would be great for developing valuable career skills. Even if it doesn’t become the final solution, experimenting with it would help me better understand backend development and could lead to new ideas for improving the site. Of course, if there are better things I can create or update for Max, I would be happy to do that instead.