Outreachy Week 5: "Think About Your Audience"

As an Outreachy applicant considering joining the Creative Commons community, it's important to think about the audience for the project you will be working on. In this blog post, I'll discuss the community I work with, Creative Commons, and how it serves the community. also explain my project, which is Refactoring the old CC Search website to semantic HTML and modernized CSS. the aim is to make it correspond with other CC websites. If you are wondering how I landed this opportunity, you can read about it in My Outreachy week 1 blog post

Welcome to the Creative Commons community! Our community is made up of a diverse group of people who are passionate about creating and sharing free, legal content. We have developers, designers, content creators, educators, and many more who all contribute to our mission of making it easy for people to share and reuse creative works legally.

One of the problems our community is trying to solve is making it easy for people to find and use free, legal content. This is where the project of Refactoring CC Search website to semantic HTML and modernized CSS comes in. CC Search is a search engine that allows users to discover and access content that is licensed under Creative Commons licenses. By refactoring the website to make it more semantic and modern, we aim to make the website more user-friendly and easier to use. By making the website more accessible, we hope to help people discover and use free, legal content more easily.

One of the projects currently underway in the community is an effort to refactor the CC Search website. The project goal is to make the website more accessible to users by updating the HTML and CSS to make it more semantic and modern. By doing this, the website will be more user-friendly and will help users find the content they're looking for more easily.

As an Outreachy applicant or a newcomer in the community, you may be wondering why someone would want to use the updated CC Search website. The answer is simple: it will be much easier for them to discover and use free, legal content. The updated website will be more user-friendly and intuitive, making it easier for users to find the content they need.

Personally, I am most excited to work on this project because it allows me to make a real difference in the lives of users. I am also excited to learn more about web development and how to make websites more accessible to users. Additionally, the community is supportive and collaborative, so I know I will be able to learn a lot from other community members.

In the past month, I've learned about more aboutsemantic HTML, which is a way of using HTML to give meaning to the structure and content of a website. I've also learned about modern CSS, which is a way of using CSS to create more visually appealing and interactive websites. Both of these concepts are crucial to the project.

One of the things that was confusing to me at first was understanding and navigating through the codebase of this project. The old CC Search was built on PHP, hence a major part of this project involves converting the PHP files to Semantic HTML. I found this really overwhelming but with the help of my mentors I've been able to do some reasonable amount of work so far.

Overall, the Creative Commons community is dedicated to making it easy for people to share and reuse creative works legally. The refactoring of CC Search website to semantic HTML and modernized CSS is a perfect example of that,it will enable users to find and use free, legal content in a more user-friendly and intuitive way.

I encourage any Outreachy applicant who is passionate about making a difference in the lives of users to consider joining our community and helping to build a more accessible and user-friendly website.