Good evening everybody. You guys can hear me, right? Yes, she's on. All right, so let's start today. So the first I am gonna ask you guys if you guys have any questions from our last day session. No, I don't. I don't. Okay, all right. So then you guys, I have a question and you guys should answer me. So tell me like what is the role of a project manager? What the project manager do in the project? I can go. Go ahead. The project manager, they will upgrade the resources they need. How many, for example, how many BA they need to be working with developers and then they document it and they will do a planning and then prepare a timeline of the project and then the timeline will be the kickoff and the end of the project. And then after that do an execution planning like when they will execute the project and they will then start the project and the BA will be the one, the first person to start the project. And then they also have, let me go back to resources planning. Like they will reach out to the BA manager, QA manager, develop dev managers and they will ask them, they will ask for example, the BA manager like how many BA they need and the timeframe the BA will need to work on the project. So they will get an answer on that. Like for example, they will need like one full time BA for 400 hours for example. And then they will do the same for the QA manager and the development manager. So they will ask them the same question and they will also reach out to them access where and how they may need for the project and they will gather all this information and then get their time, do the timeframe of the project and then kick off with the project. Basically that was how they, that's for the project management, project manager. Okay, all right. Thank you. Then Hardil. Okay, I actually, I'm sorry if there's any disturbance because I'm driving with my family's Black Friday so we're shopping around but I managed there. No worries. No worries. Yeah, because I got my kid in the car with me so he's loud. But yeah, the project manager, like project manager's role is like how the stakeholders give the job like the project is handed to the project manager and project manager decides the hardware, the software they're going to use, the stuff that they need to manage this, the time limits for the VA's, they're going to assist VA's and stuff. And pretty much that's it. And then afterwards like business analyst takes it, right? Like he finds the architecture, like it's a role of it, like it's a protocol that project manager use and then the VA comes and then the architecture, like the system architect that designs everything and the developers code everything. I mean, I know I went step ahead. I'm not explaining to you what project manager do. Project manager like basically like, I just know the three steps what you told us.  Yeah, I'm on the track. Yeah. Okay. All right. So then, okay, that was good one.  So are they done before the VA starts the work on start working on the project or, you know, when they are done in time? So that is my question. You're asking you're, I'm sorry. Dad, you go ahead first. Okay. Yeah, I think all the process is done. They need to get off with the project. All right. Yeah. So are there you? Oh, okay. So what was the question? I'm sorry. Like, I'm so sorry that I just got a little late. Yeah, no, no worries. So question is that all these, you know, the three steps that's, you know, preparing the timeline and that is basically time. You know, timeline would be either in, you know, project planning document or it will have itself own document like, you know, project timeline and preparing that project plan resource plan and all that. So this, the project manager complete before the VA starts working on. Yes. Yes. Yes. The project manager has to like, you know, yeah, that completes beforehand, like project managers to come up with the plan, right? And then it gives a sort of business analyst when project manager decides everything. Okay. And after that project kickoff, you know, happens and project team project team start working on it.  All right. And then comes that, you know, VA start working on the project. Okay. So after the kickoff, kickoff, then business analyst start working on project. Okay. And then a summary of what the business analyst like, you know, do. So then what the VA do in different phases of that project. Okay. That what we discussed yesterday. So just on that question to both of you, what the VA does during different phases of the project. So I want you to explain in like the each phase. What is the role of a VA during the business analysis phase? Okay. The role, what do you say, please the role of the VA during the business analysis phase? Okay. The role of a VA during the business analysis phase. I think the VA starts by documents all the requirements. And then after that, the VA will reach out to the system analyst gather all the requirements needed and then after that, the VA will reach out to the developers to do the same with them, take all the requirements, assist to some of the to their meetings to answer questions regarding all the requirements gathered before the start the project. And then the VA also will have to help answer the questions in regarding the QA testing like where they go for testing. So yeah, in what phase VA does that? Do like which work do the what you're telling that, you know, working with the QA answering the question, what the project is basically when the VA does that activity working with the QA, they do that on testing because the QA is the one that's supposed to test the software at the end. So that is when the VA works with it with the QA during testing. Okay. All right. And then. Hardly. Yeah.  Right. So so what VA does is be like, you know, controls everything afterwards.  If the company's like, you know, the project's handing in to them, like, you know, if they need to change anything into like, you know, for the whatever is the task is given it to them, you know, so he attends the meetings and stuff, stuff like that. Basically, he becomes the head of whatever the job is given it to it. So the developers is given at the time, that's how many hours they need to get their work done. If the developers need anything, any questions that goes straight to the VA and be straight, like, you know, handles the business with stakeholders, you know, so like, you know, VA's job is basically like, you know, follow up with everything. And if they have anything needs to be changed or the stakeholders want anything needed to be changed in the last like, you know, and throughout the, you know, task is given it to the, you know, people and he handles everything. Okay. All right. So there is like, you know, it was kind of open book. You are seeing at the screen if you are, you know, looking at that, what I was asking the answer is right in front of your eyes. Okay.  Okay. So basically there are three main phases of, you know, the whole software development lifecycle, analysis phase, development phase, testing phase. Okay. And in analysis, there is a first, you know, sub phase that is a business analysis phase and then second is system analysis or design phase. And then like after their development phase, testing phase, so this is like, you know, and these are aligned, these phases are aligned with what? They are aligned according to the project timeline. Okay. Project time timeline and where the project timeline located in project plan. Right. So these are in alignment with the, these phases in alignment with the project timeline. Okay. So the BA role summary that first thing that you have to basically understand. So first thing of the first job is the BA to do the business analysis and that is basically like, you know, when BA only working on the project, just like the project manager was only working during the project planning and all these three steps when doing, there was nobody else, just a project manager from the team perspective. Okay. So that was the only single person working. Now in the business analysis phase, BA is the only person who is working to gather and document requirement from the stakeholders and stakeholders are all those like business folks who have requested the project. Okay. And or anybody who is impacted by the project by that project requested as well as impacted either they are directly or indirectly impacted or they're you know, in any way they are impacted, they would be the stakeholder. So they needed to be in those requirement meetings so that they can, you know, make their inputs whatever that is, you know, needed from their side. Okay. So business analysis, the BA does and only now BA is working for one month or two months or whatever according to this project timeline. He have to complete within his like allowed time. He or she has to finish the requirement gathering and how the requirement gathering is done just as a summary that, you know, BA work with the stakeholder ask question, BA has a requirement template where he start documenting the requirement and multiple meetings with the stakeholders to back and forth, you know, questions, feedback and all those like session the result is business requirement document is prepared or user story document is prepared. Okay. So when that is done, so that is basically you can say 100% time BA is working. So BA's main job, if you will look at the big picture of a BA role, so 80% of the work of the BA is during the business analysis phase. The rest is only 20% of basically time he will be spending on. Okay. So this is the main thing and the rest in the next he just have to, you know, have help system analyst understand the requirement or any question they have about the requirement. Okay. So just explaining the requirement and ask answering any question with the requirement that is, you know, the BA role or during the system analysis and when the development happened, just attending one or one hour meeting, maybe a day or every other day with the development team, if they have any question about the requirement, just like attending though their meeting, if they will be asking any question with the requirement answering, otherwise just sitting back and, you know, just looking what is happening. Okay. And the connection is breaking. Is it better? No, yeah, still breaking. No, it's better now. Was that breaking for everybody? No, no, no, I think it was just hers. Yeah, it's okay now. Yeah. So yeah, so probably your connection is weak because when you was previously speaking, it was breaking. So, but you know, like it would be recording. So if you missed anything, you would be able to hear that. But you know, yeah, the connection is basically on your side breaking. All right. So then again, let's get back to the business analysis phase. This is the main 80% of the time of a BA that would be spent in there. Okay, in BA business analysis phase. Okay, so this is like how all the work of the BA is being done in this phase. The rest is basically explaining that work to him and acting as a liaison between the business and the technical team. Okay.  So you're saying business analysis. Okay. So the 80% of the 80% of the work that you're saying, he just it's like basically his job is just to get a requirements and prepare for the stories and stuff that is given its one. Right. That is his main job. That is his core job. The rest 20% of the time, he is just explaining what he's documenting explaining what to do, right? What no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There is a nobody telling nobody that what to do. He is explaining just those requirements that what was the, you know, user ask. Okay. Okay. Okay. Basically explaining that document. That's it. So he is not telling anybody what to do. He's not, he is just custodian of those requirements that he, you know, gathered from the stakeholder. So those requirements, those user needs that user identified that are, you know, those problem statements, whatever they are requirements are, that's what he documented. And he understood those documents, documented requirements. That's why, you know, he would be the basically subject matter expert for to explain with the other team. Okay. For example, like, you know, requirement is this and they why they need that, you know, what is it? Okay. So he will explain the other business logic is this because they are having this problem to resolve that problem. They need this. Okay. Okay. I got all that like, you know, so that would be like what he would be communicating.  Everybody knows their job and they will do. So be is just explaining those requirements to them. You know, initially maybe like how they be explained first maybe like giving them overview of that requirement answering any question. Okay. Okay. Then later on they will request to the BA that hey, we have some question. Can you tell us so it can be like one to one, one, you know, BA to whole team can be multiple session from the BA with the team if they have question. Okay. So that's how I actually play out. Okay. Okay. Now, now it's clear now. Okay. Now it's more clear to me. Okay. Okay. And during the, during that design phase because those requirements are the input for the design because those requirements are what the business need is. Okay. And what would be the solution can only be after you know, the technically understand the business need and the business need is stated in those requirements. Okay. So that's why we when I say that, you know, business requirements is the input for the design that what it mean. Okay. Because design is the solution of those requirements. Okay. Okay. So that's how the hierarchy is a business requirement document is, you know, input for a system design document and then design document and business requirement both are input for the, you know, solution are, you know, the coding and then we business requirement and system requirement are both are input for the test cases. Okay. The test cases are being written assumptions and all those scenarios based on those requirements that what is so each business requirement or some system requirement is converted into test cases. And then, you know, that's what the BA the key way use both both the document to create their test cases. Okay. Okay. And one other thing that during the development phase, what is the so right now we are just, you know, with the BA perspective explaining what the BA does during the whole like, you know, development, whole software development life cycle. Okay. During all the phases, but the BA does. So first phase business analysis phase. We already discussed what does design phase. We discussed what they does and then development phase we discussed what the BA does and during the development phase, BA also work with the QA because the development is doing the development. What the QA is doing? Okay. The QA need to start creating those test cases, which they will execute when the testing phase will come. But before the testing phase start, they have to be ready with all those test scenarios test cases, whatever they need to start testing. Okay. So during the development phase, when development happening on the sideline QA and the BA, they are working together to, you know, create be a QA career test cases and they work with BA to understand the requirement. Okay. So during the development phase, if I will ask you what would be the role of a BA during the development phase working with the development team answering their question and then working with the QA on the sideline to answer any question the QA have so that QA will create test cases or in simple word be a partner with the QA during when the development happening partner with the QA to help them create the test cases. So that would be the answer. Okay. And then what does BA do during the test testing phase? So now in the testing phase test QA are already, you know, ready to go to take the system and in and out test it all, you know, business requirement and the, you know, system requirement, they have test cases for that. So they, you know, execute those test cases during the testing phase and BA attend their, you know, daily meeting. If they have any question regarding the requirement, they can ask or if the BA see there is some requirement, they don't, the BA doesn't, you know, see the test case for that. So BA can point out, hey, these requirement, I don't see any test cases. So are we like, you know, maybe I'm missing. So which test cases are related to these two requirements? So BA does create a document which called traceability document, which link all the requirements to solution to like a development to testing. So in the requirement document requirement are, you know, numbered as R1, R2, R3 design document. Each requirement design is like D1, D2, D3. Okay, just like, you know, the requirement and similarly like, you know, the development each functionality is basically numbered. So BA keep a document which called traceability document which he uses during, you know, system analysis development testing phase just to track that all the requirements have is having a solution and that solution is being tested. So that is the traceability. So that is another additional task of the BA which he does during other phases after the business analysis phase. Okay. So that is basically like, you know, what the BA does. So I want you guys to do like assignment this weekend.  So it's just like a role play and create that document just to give like, you know, how that will look like. For example, be like a project manager and all the stakeholder. You know that what they do. Okay. So project and BA managers, what would be the hours for, you know, different teams. So creating that and creating that timeline. So choose any project, any, anything that in your mind and just create that document. So don't worry about it is wrong or right or, you know, whatever your understanding is, put it on paper and what I want to see, I want to see that, you know, a document that is created, which has like, you know, team name that this role will be needed. And this many hours it would be. And then imagine like, you know, the project started from January to like, you know, how long is the project and what phases is, you know, will be completed in what month? Okay. So this is one and then other is basically the role of a BA but question is what does BA does during the each phases of the project? So you will like, you know, create this type of basically a chart that BA does in, you know, business analysis phase one, two, three, four, five, six, one system analysis or design phase BA role do this, this, this, this development phase BA does this and then do that this testing phase BA does this, this, this, this. So this is like a couple of things that I want you guys to, you know, basically prepare during this like two days. Okay. Okay. Make sense? Yeah. Well, you just want us to do assignments started with the project manager and then the BA. Right. So both roles. Okay. Act as a project. Both roles, what they, what they do act out like just pretending like we're exactly just like it's like, you know, use your imagination. Okay. Okay. So act as a project manager. What's the project manager does before till the kickoff and then act as a BA. Okay.  So this is the assignment and it is make it fun and you can create create any projects. So project can be any project like even like a cooking meal for Thanksgiving. This is a project. Okay. So for that you have stakeholders, we want this, this, this, this, this, you know, requirement list. These are the requirements and then, you know, solution for that and all those solution are basically recipes, right? Yeah.   So project being project, it doesn't have to be like IT or technical just do anything. Yeah, you just wanted it.    Yeah, it's better, better way of learning. So that's okay. Okay. All right. So that pretty much it for to a short and sweet session. So any question? Uh, no, as of now, yeah, as of now, nothing, you know, it's just a, we just got the assignment handed to us. So we just, I'm just going to try to work.  Yeah, came late and stuff. No worries. No worries at all. Take it easy. So yeah. So don't. Yeah. And I mean, for me, I'm okay. Okay. All right. So yeah, so do not take this assignment like as a college assignment or anything. Don't take it as a burden. Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna, I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try what my mind says and then I'm right. Right. Exactly. Because if you will, the whole purpose is that you will make mistakes. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. If I will know that, you know, what is your understanding that then I can correct it. Okay.  Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So the whole purpose of this is basically to get you corrected and get you basically like, you know, so do it. Don't basically like, you know, be afraid to make mistake. It is not a, you know, college assignment. There is a no basically scoring or anything. So take it easy and do it, you know, don't stall it or don't be worried. Even if you are blanked out, just take my example of, you know, cooking a meal and create some, you know, nice projects. Okay. I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna go, I'm just gonna ask you one thing, just one thing, just to clear up. Okay. So I know, I know you probably explain it to this and I just need a review on it. So the project manager knows when, when the, the project is handing to the project managers by state, by stakeholders, right? Yeah. So project manager already know in an IT team that, that many people she needs. Right. Right. So yeah. So that's, that's like, that's not any IT job. Like what, when it's given it to it. So the, the project manager already knows I need to be a, I need a like system analyst. I need developers, you know, and then, you know, like the testing phase, that's, that's already written right before the job is given it to the project manager. Definitely. That, definitely. That is already. So this is basically like kind of becomes like, you know, how the things are being. So if you will see software development life cycle. So there are analysis phase, business and system analysis, there as a development and there as a testing. Okay. Yeah. That phase is already there in IT. Exactly. There, those phases are the way that, you know, the development, the way the project is going to run. Right. So for each phase, there, it's understood you need people to finish each phase. Okay. All right. So similarly, like, you know, if the project is service now project, then the development phase will happen, but the developer will be service now developer. Okay. Similarly, like, you know, if the Salesforce project is then developer will be Salesforce. Dotnet based some application development, then developer will be dotnet developer. Okay. So that variation within that, but you know, there will be like understanding that developer needed QA needed, be an eithered system analyst needed or you know, design system design person needed. So it's like, you know, understood knowledge or you can say, you know, common sense for with regard to the project. All right. Okay. All right. Perfect. Yep. So we'll do our best, you know, and all right. So that's it for today. Thank you very much for joining and you guys have fun. So there's nothing on the weekends, right? No, no, nothing on the weekend. We will meet on Monday. So we can take our take time, you know, and listen our session again and create your assignment. And this will be recorded too. Yeah. This is this is recorded too. So you will get the. Yeah, because I'm gonna, I'm gonna go over it again because I'm still driving. So again, I was just listening to it. So I'm just going to go over it one more time. Okay. That sounds good. All right then. All right. Thank you very much. I wish you a great weekend. All right. You too. Bye-bye. Yes. Go ahead. Yes. So for today of this, basically they say this and we go to the assignment. Uh, that week, we went to the room. Your, your voice is pretty like, you know, uh, it's really like cutting bad. So you have my number. Just give me a call and, uh, I can answer the. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye.


We're here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and I'm very pleased to be joined Mr Ahmed Mekhi who is CEO of Gulf Bridge International on GBI. Mr Mekhi, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. Thank you, thank you for having me today. You're with the Gulf Bridge International GBI, can you tell us a little bit about what GBI does? GBI is the owner and operator of the biggest private loan subsea network. We started from the Middle East going global, very neutral, so neutral from the ownership nationwide and operator-wise. We serve all the operators equally, we provide connectivity to improve the experience of the people from the region and beyond for better connectivity. This is what we mainly do and we are expanding this network eastward, westward, south and north. So you're involved in submarine cables, how do submarine cables help people to ICTs? There are only two ways to connect people in this globe from country to country or from continent to another continent, either cable or satellite. Cables carry more than 90% of the data of the world, so this is how the cables contribute in connecting the people, connecting the world and connecting the countries to each other. So definitely this is a great participation and this technology is improving. In GBI we are committed to use the latest technology to provide to this region the latest technology available in this industry. And what's your mission and how do you hope to contribute to the future of telecoms and ICTs? Our mission in GBI to provide the latest level of technology for connectivity, connecting with the highest speed. So to support the broadband initiatives for all the countries in this region, we are expanding globally to connect the world to this region and back both ways. So from the world to the region, from the region to the world as well. We're building these highways so we can go vertically, supporting these societies to enjoy better experience and development. It's like a catalyst for the development of any other business and economical sector. So having this kind of infrastructure, good level of telecom infrastructure is a great catalyst for any other business or economical sector that will always need that kind of good infrastructure in the telecom sector. We're here at the World Telecommunication Development Conference here in Dubai. What's the benefit of GBI attending this event? For us at GBI the benefit of being here to share the thoughts and the ideas with the regulators, governments, operators, all the players in the industry are here. We are all here together in such a nice place in Dubai to discuss how can we move forward, how can we improve the experience of the people in the world, emphasizing in the fact that connectivity is a human right and we are all here working to deliver this and assuring that everyone in this world, all over the globe, is having his right of good, proper connectivity. Mr. Miki, thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you, sir. Thank you. And thank you for watching.


The history of William Shakespeare and the plants mentioned in his works were brought together today at the Brainerd Public Library. Gardening played an important role in Shakespeare's life and his writing as he named plants nearly 200 times in his writings. After participants learned the history of Shakespeare they were given some examples of specific plants important to him. Even hundreds of years later Shakespeare's gardening influence can be recognized. If you look at you know gardening and across time how people looked at gardens how they looked at even embroidery and how they featured plants and animals in some of the embroideries that they did it all kind of comes together so sometimes what's old is new again. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


What's good charge your boy Ross back out again with another video? So we're gonna check out wrestlers being jerks volume 3 you guys enjoyed volume 2 So here we are with volume 3 man. If you want me to continue this series I definitely will continue checking out this series. These videos are hilarious when I say wrestling Sometimes you you just amazed at what actually be going on in the ring So this should be going appreciate all the love and support on the channel man. Let's get right into this one Are they doing a kid and play That was they were doing a kid and playing didn't start stomping them out. That's great. That's great She's selling it. She's not really hurt. Yep. She faked it. She faked it She faked it Oh And then she started talking trash, so you put your hands on me Is that Austin? Oh, that's Austin theory. Oh What's going on? Oh No Oh just perplexed on what I just saw there That was a whole new version of the basso chop absolutely. Oh, the testicular drive Testicular just got our stuff like that pause.  Uh-oh. Nice casting. No, man, we ain't doing this. Not the thumbs of the eye. He's selling it too high. Oh, the middle finger to disrespect. Five as far as part of flow sports. Oh. Oh, you're pulling the man's beard. What are you doing, man? Oh, damn. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on, man. Wait a minute. What's happening? Are they just both chilling? You know what? What's going on here? Oh, damn. Oh, damn, man. Come on, man. Come on. I'm just stomping on it, man. Uh-oh. What was that?  Me too. It's the whole waving of the arms like a bird. Oh. That was very slick how he did that. Oh, she biting the hole. Oh, damn. Choking him. Why are you trying to talk? How the ref don't see that?  How do you don't see him choking him out? Is that carrying cross? You telling me that Kindle stick was his friend? Kindle stick was his friend, bro? All right. What's going on here? Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I'm sure the fans are loving that. I bet they were, man. I bet they were. Oh.  That was great. Come on, man. Sends Basso into the guardrail. Say what you like about him. Oh, whoa. Bucking out a kick. Oh, come on. The ref didn't deserve that. Morgan is impressed enough for Hernandez. He said I'll tag in when I want to. Oh, wow. Well, he is running the show. Yeah, Matt Morgan. I guess he wants to. Some teamwork. He's a please, bro. Don't do it. Oh, oh. His camera angle is kind of wild, though. Of course. I'm so glad he's in this compilation.  Oh. MJF, man. We've been seeing you on television. The smug attitude. Just look on his face. He is better than you. And you know it, right? Yeah. Every time I see this guy, I'm so glad. He's trying to go for the head. Say you that now.  And my kids never turned out like this. Pick it up. Vinny is now just hanging up there. Oh, look at Friedman. Oh, MJF, no. It's Orange Cassidy. Orange Cassidy. I get it. His gimmick is he's just too cool for school, man. I just, I can't take it seriously. We know it's just a comedy act, bro. The disrespect. The disrespect. I'm not doing no respect here. Oh. We get some refs out here to stop this, bro.  Do something. She's a technical, which actually break tradition with her family. She's a second generation star.  Iguanas down. Iguanas?  Aw, come on, man. This is just a kid. I guess your opponent won't be expecting that. Unless they're into it. But, I mean, I guess I hear the judge. Why would that hurt him? Why kissing the bottom of someone's shoe hurt them? This is just weird. I'm not even going to lie to you. I'm actually just so confused on what's going on here. In the face. Hand shake. I hope he slaps him. It's just a show of respect to you. I hope he slaps him. Oh! Oh, damn. And not a Oh! Oh! That made me it. No, don't do that, bro.  Oh! That was cold. That was disrespectful. He caught them in his eyes. Someone said, oh! That's illegal! Oh! Yeah. Oh! There's a slap from Tony Stone. Oh! The horn dogs love that clip. Well here, Vortex 7. Hell, you can slap for that. Tony Depp is there.  He barely did anything. He barely did anything. Not doing push-ups. Oh! What happened there?  I'm smiling. He seems like he's having such a great time.  Stiff tag. Yeah, he sold that tag. Like, it hurt for real. Damn, that was a strong tag. That was a strong tag, bro. Geez! Goddamn! Tag, motherfucker.  But this is great, man. This was entertaining. As always, there was definitely some questionable things that were going on in this video. There's always questionable things when it comes to these compilations. I'd just be like, ah, it's wrestling. Someone asked what's going on here. I'd just say it's wrestling. But comment down below. Let me know what was the funniest part from this video. And also let me know if you want me to check out part 4. All y'all got to do is run up and like for me. But I will definitely check out part 4 for you guys. I appreciate all love and support. Row 2. 9K, I appreciate y'all. See y'all in the next one. Peace.


Hey guys shiver 1000 here today. We're gonna be trying out this Bluetooth speaker That you wear around your neck Let's check it out That's we got this wireless speaker. It's Bluetooth You're supposed to be able to put it around your neck. I don't know how comfortable it is I've never seen these before so I Thought I'd give it a shot this came from five below. It was five bucks Remix wireless speaker from base jacks jaxx So high quality sound neck wear design and it's got a Rechargeable Lyon battery 3.7 volts Let's open it up and check it out. Well, what's the back say? There's the back Pretty much the same thing front did but it Give you kind of a different angle on it, but so It's compatible with iPhone Android smartphones iPad tablets iPod m3 m3 mp3 players, so There's a specification on it Signing let's get this opened up see what's inside this I'm sure we'll probably have to charge it For both this things going to be it's real hard plastic Already that sticker starting to come off for some reason Did you see that? so there's your on off switch and Your USB port and charging cable and the instructions so I'm going to read these instructions Excuse me, and see if there's anything special I need to do first. I'll be right back with you. Okay, so You know under the charging system. There's the charging Thing in the instructions this is kind of crazy. Why is this so blurry? Is it just me? anyway It says You know you must select a qualified charger from a regular manufacturer Well, whatever because this is like a no-name brand thing and where you gonna get charges like that since it didn't come with one It only came with that So but it says you can plug it in your your computer laptop blah blah blah That's not regular manufacturer from here But anyway, but the second one's intriguing you must charge the wireless speaker if it has been not used for more than 12 months Well, if I haven't used a fucking thing in 12 months Why am I gonna worry about charging it then?  Let's try to pair this thing So says to turn it on We'll go in settings blue tooth Turn the blue tooth on Connection available and it says to look for it should come up as BT remix spk, which is remix beaker Not seeing it, so let's search for it still searching. It's not coming up It is found it down here at the bottom. It's it right there. So Let's hit it. Well, we are connected. So Yeah, connected connected to call and media audio. I don't know All right, so let's Let's do I'll tell you what we'll do one of my videos That is hard plastic.  It feels what it looks like and that's a piece of plastic Around you. I mean, it's a good concept. I guess but I Mean it's worth five bucks. Yeah, it's worth five bucks But it does it sounds like crap Let me see if I can find like some music that I don't have to worry about getting demonetized for Let's see if it gyms From silent partner, it's called tied up when it comes to something like that.  Yeah, yeah, it's worth five bucks But not for me. Maybe for you guys that might, you know, might be better did pair up real easy So yeah, it's okay. It just depends on what you're into and You know, not everything's for everybody But just because I don't care for it doesn't mean you won't like it, you know But I just think it's very uncomfortable because that's what a plastic you would think That they would make at Almost like pillow like, you know a little bit and if your neck's big, you know, it's not gonna ruin your neck Well, you know, you know, if you're asking me if you should try it Yeah, for five bucks because you may you may like it And if not walks it up give it to a friend family member or something say here. Hey, try this out Make a video on it and do your own review I'll give it a one thumbs up because it does work. It is kind of loud, but it doesn't have a good sound It's not very comfortable, but it does work and it did pair up really easy so Which you paired up quicker than I thought because I just didn't scroll far enough, but it was there and it was on So, yeah, give it a shot if you want to Buy bucks y'all get it one thumbs up We're good with that. So anyway guys stay tuned for more videos and more review videos and Stay tuned for some more videos on the tractor the simplicity lawnmower and You know, we're still we're going to run a compression test on it and See if we can get the engine straight now. I went out started it up today It cranked one time and it was running so but like I say when it gets warmed up That's when it starts giving you issues So we'll run a compression test on it check it out and I've got something else We're going to review but probably not tonight it is It's quarter after 10. Oh, yeah, you can see it quarter after 10, so All right guys again. Thanks for watching. Shea bearer the myth man alleged. I'm gone for now. See you guys later and take care


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards, and I'm ripping one box of 2022 tops for steam baseball for Travis K So good luck Travis. See we get in here for you.   I think for personals a little easier In case card last not like it's a good product. It's just the packaging doesn't make any sense on it That's the only issue I got Ron santo got nice gold bloody junior That is 15 out of 50. There you go Travis. Good start there for you, man Little Vladdy action Bass Got Goldie max crannock rookie and pure power Frank Thomas first in case card base of the pulsar that's Mike Zanino for the race No auto or anything there it's in this one We've got Matt Sui and nice Alex Verdu go on the gold patch autograph. That's 30 to a 50 On-card on that one as well. Congrats on that one Travis nice Verdu go Not too shabby there go into our base pack here Gavin sheets rookie Tapia, Ryu, Vladdy not numbered and Roberto Clemente on the pristine borders Then we've got gold Rod Carew 17 of 50 on the encased Nice hit there Always like seeing those Numbers in case cards those are nice. I've had to rip so much of this like helping out for us and group breaks over the last couple Days like it's unreal honestly got Aaron Nola and jazz chiseled jr. That's not numbered on the jazz. Yeah, you strum ski Ernie Clement on the rookie jaren Duran rookie and we've got Nicola Nick Castellanos That is pink to 15 3 out of 15. That's a deep drive to left field by Castellanos Nice hit there Grabs on that one First in case auto these usually fall in case autos tend to fall. I've seen like two per box And then you usually get like one RPA or like a patch auto kind of thing Purple on this pack mom big player got Tyler Gilbert rookie purple is gonna be nice Justin Verlander That is 88 of 99 Verlander for the Stroh's pretty cool one there Torrey Haunter Austin Meadows Joe Ryan rookie pure power is gonna be Mike trout First encased auto Cardinals Paul Goldschmidt. There you go Congrats on that one. That's awesome Nice Goldie probably leading the MLB And no problem. Oh gee, I Don't mind doing them like for a personal they're easy. It's it's pretty Pretty simple group breaks. They just get a little bit tough because it's really it's just tedious when you're doing, you know What do we do? Like all close to 40 boxes of it large new bar rookie got purple a manual Rivera to 99 for the Royals It's 77 of 99 nice one there got Curtis Terry rookie Cal Raleigh rookie base And Harman Killabrew on the blue encased card. This one is 75. That's 28 of 75 twins and last pack good luck here Travis Robin yelp base and one Soto Jake Cousins rookie Griffin Jack's rookie and Second encased auto is gonna be Jesse winker That is gold 15 out of 50 a lot of gold in this box. There you go. Congrats on that one Travis That'll do it for your break there Travis. Congrats on all the hits get those right out to man. Thank you again


Insert cool sound effects to accompany the animation. This is going to be the first episode of your video editing. Hey, it's Anfa from AnfaMusic.com. And today I want to talk about Cake Studio. Cake Studio is a project that delivers a lot of great Linux audio software. Not only for Linux, because custom programs, applications that were created and are maintained are also available for Windows and Mac sometimes. For example, Karla, which is a multi-type plugin host that I'm using right now to process my voice. Should be able to see the meters. Yeah, this is my voice. It's going for Karla. So I want to talk about Cake Studio because I think it's something that new people to Linux audio should find out about, because it's the place where you can find the newest and greatest in Linux audio and get it very quick and get it going. And also it saves you time on configuring stuff like how to get Jack, Pulse Audio and ALSA programs to work together. OK, Studio solves that because it has scripts and it has applications that put all of that together so it works nicely, smoothly, and you have easy control over what it does. I'm not going to talk about all of that in this video because I just want to introduce you to installing stuff. And how to use it is another topic. First, you install it and you worry. The first thing about Cake Studio that I use primarily now is the repositories. And these are sources of software available for Debian and Ubuntu-based systems that you can install.  And this will include some very, very nice audio plugins that you can get otherwise, but it's difficult. And the easiest way to get the top-notch plugins for Linux audio is to install Cake Studio repositories. So just grab it and use it. When I have to install a new system, what I do is I install something like Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Right now I'm based on Linux Mint 18 KDE 5. And I got to like KDE because I was using Cake Studio, which also provides a live distribution that you can get here, downloads. And there's a live DVD that you can download. And then if you're running Windows, you're gonna need this program, which is called Unetbootin. All the links are gonna be in the description. And you can then use that to write the downloaded ISO file to a USB stick. So you can then put it into your computer and boot it up with Linux without modifying your hard disk contents, without erasing your hard disks or messing up your Windows installation if you need it. So Unetbootin is the tool for doing this. Okay, I've been using Cake Studio Live DVD for a long time, but it's got a little bit outdated. It's 2016, the December is coming very close. And it's already almost three years old. But it's still usable. And it's great for trying out what it is, what it does, what software is available. So to install the repositories, one's more good repositories about, and there's the instruction. And once you did that, open Synaptic or another package manager that you're using. And you can search for packages named KXStudio-Meta. Now KXStudio-Meta are meta packages. These are packages that don't contain software, they just link to other packages. So you install one meta package and you install like 20 different packages with different programs. What I do is I install everything that is audio related. So I, or almost everything, like I install KXStudio-Meta audio, and we can see what does it depend on.  And it's also very good to install Meta-Plugins Collection because that's a bunch of very good LV2 plugins. And there's Meta-Audio plugins LV2. I don't know if they are like complimentary if it doesn't matter if you install one and two. I'm not sure why there are so many different, but it doesn't hurt if you install all of them, really. I didn't install all that, but the assign them because they didn't felt like, because this is a fairly new system. Okay, if you're also feeling adventurous, you might do KXStudio Desktop. And this will install a lot of stuff and it's gonna transform your desktop. So be cautious about it because don't do this if you have an old system that you're used to. Do it on a fresh installation if you're wanting to do this because it can be kind of dangerous. Not dangerous that it's gonna break your computer or something, but it might just change the way your system is configured in such a manner that if you're not prepared to do that, it might be unpleasant and hard to revert. I never tried that. Like I wasn't installing KXStudio Desktop in a long time. I'm just using KXStudio Audio Meta packages and that's all. All right, so this is installing Meta packages. Once you do that, you have the software. All right, I think this is it for this video. It's a short one. I wanted to show you what KXStudio is and give you the taste of what you get when you install it and why it's good to know about it because it's the source of the best and newest Linux Audio software. And I use it a lot. If you want to learn anything else, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, leave them in the comments below and I will see you in the next video. Bye.


I should just learn the hot key for that. All right, thank you, Robo Voice. And welcome everyone. This today's theme is really, really interesting to me because I think I brought up this plugin a couple times in other workshops. And it's kind of just been like I bring it up and it becomes a mystery that I haven't tested myself. So I'm really thoroughly excited today because this Create Blocking plugin is supposed to help a lot of makers in WordPress create block themes without specifically needing code specific knowledge. So we're gonna run through how that would look today. And yeah, I'm really excited to share this content with you all. I will preface this with, we will probably not go through and create all of a site's templates today. I only scheduled an hour, unfortunately, we should at least be able to get the homepage done. So to get started, let's talk through a few points to help you get in the creativity zone. We'll talk through what this plugin actually is. And then we'll do a little sandbox session of trying to create that homepage with the plugin itself. So getting into the creative zone, I think some people they just like get hit with the muse and they know what they're doing right away. Some people just rely on their exquisite design background knowledge. And others also rely on references. And I'm kind of one of those visual learners. So I do like to use or look, research a lot of references when I'm thinking about the design of things. So in this regard, I thought to give you some examples of a few themes. Our theme library is full of so many great themes that have designers who put in the work to think through a lot of the composition and layout already. So I highly recommend folks to start with either visiting their favorite sites depending on what type of site you're trying to make. In this case, if you're making a travel related site, you know, look up your favorite place where you wanna travel and see what sites come up. Maybe they might give you some inspiration or you can check out the WordPress.org themes repository and search there for travel themes because there's a lot in there. This is, I just chose three to start but there were basically hundreds in there for you to just browse through and get inspiration from. Maybe even install and then create a theme off of it depending on your use case. But that's really up to you. Just something that will get you into the creative zone and note what you like best about those references. Once you have a good idea of what you like, I recommend you to get out your digital or manual pen and get to planning. I just did a light sketch here of what I would like this homepage to look like. So at the top here, you can see there's maybe a tagline to the left. We can see also in the middle, a circular logo links to the right.  So I put that space in there, maybe three posts in the middle with some featured images, a little section. And then below, since my site today is gonna be about travel blogging, I wanted to also have like this kind of puzzle piece space at the bottom where you can see different posts and like a quote unquote sidebar space on the far right. So this seems like a lot, but through this demo, I'm gonna share with you how to make all this magic happen with the site editor. And then we can also take this into a theme form. But as you're going through, don't think, oh my gosh, I've had this amazing layout, I don't know how to actually put it together. There are amazing patterns in the wordpress.org pattern directory to also help you along. So if you're like, okay, this is the composition I'd like, I've sketched it all out, but I really don't know which blocks to use, how to get there, how to make it look the way I envision it. There's so many great people who've designed different patterns. You can also design a pattern as well and share it with the world. But you could definitely grab what you need from this pattern library and plug it into the page that you're trying to create. That's totally fine as well. But once you've got all of that, we'll wanna make sure that we have our create block theme plugin installed. So this plugin essentially allows you to create a new theme and export it all within the wordpress admin. And there's a lot of options here. You can create a new theme from a theme you have installed, like duplicate it essentially. You can create a child theme from the theme you have installed. You can just start from a blank theme slate and make your theme from scratch. And that's what we're gonna work on today. Or you can also just create a style variation. So if you were to have a 2023 installed, for example, you could create a new style variation for 2023 if that's the theme you just want to create. Or after you've created your new blank theme, you can use this plugin to also create a style variation. So it's really taking out the need for you to do a lot of that coding background work yourself. And we're gonna look in the backend of how this plugin is set up and those kinds of options that it'll give you. So a couple other resources I wanted to share or like quick tips essentially is when you're building a site, it's kind of hard to, at least for me, to envision how the site is gonna look if there's no content. Because when you're building a theme, you're not putting content into it, right? You wanna have placeholder areas where the content that's added to the site will propagate. So I would say if you're creating this new site for this theme, just try to have some dummy content ready, placeholder content ready, so that when you use a query loop, for example, and it's trying to pull your posts, it doesn't just come up blank. You have a few posts where you can see how your art is coming to action here. So definitely have some placeholder content ready, have some images at the ready as well. And then I like to set some post excerpts and featured images too, especially as I was saying, if we're gonna be dynamically pulling up posts via the query loop, that just gives you a lot more to play around with visually if that content is already set. Here's some links to those. And as usual, the slides will definitely be shared with folks after the call as well. Okay, so I'm gonna tell you all my demo setup today or sandbox setup today. It's, if you've been with me before, not very different from what I usually do here, but we're gonna be using local for the local environment, the create block theme plugin 2023 and WordPress 6.1.1. I'm using all of the latest versions of everything I'm sharing with you today because I just wanna make sure, especially when you're putting a plugin on your site, there's things you wanna check, like whether or not that plugin is compatible with the latest version that you're using. So it's good to always kind of check between that version and your theme or your version of WordPress as well. Okay, so I do love giving options though. So if you're not into local WP or the themes that I've listed, oh, thank you, Laura, to point it out that there's wordpress.org slash photos for free images as well. All the free things. And speaking of more free things, here's some more themes. I've chosen solely block themes and local environment setups that you can test and play around with. I just find local to be pretty push start easy. So, but I understand that doesn't work for everyone. So choose what works best for you. Okay, so I put sandbox time here, but I will give a pause in case there are any questions before we dive in, tactfully give myself a little water break. Okay, well, if that's not the case, please feel free to type. We'll be looking at the chat, me and my co-host and we'll answer there, or feel free to raise your voice as we're going along here. But to start, this is a fresh install of WordPress here, just for this session. Just my share screen a little bit. There you go, so you can see the whole admin bar as well. What I have done here is I've created a bunch of posts as I was saying, right? So I categorized a few of them. We're not gonna get into that much today, but I wanted to have some content ready. So as we're going along and adding stuff here, I don't need to go and grab new images along the way or create posts. So we have a few posts at the ready here and we're gonna work with these. But to get started, you'll see here, if I go to appearance themes, I just have baseline 2023 installed at the moment. This is what it would look like if I did absolutely nothing and just installed the theme, essentially. My travel theme is Japan, of course, but we're gonna play with the create block theme plugin. So I'm gonna go to plugins here, add new, let's do a little search, where are you at? There it is, it's by WordPress.org. So brilliant folks in the community who are bringing you WordPress. Yes, yes, let's see what this plugin looks like. So it's this nice little blue block with a C, very simplistic pixel-like. We're gonna activate it here. And so what changes is when you go now, once it's activated, is that you'll see this create block theme and manage theme font section. So let's check this out real quick. When you get into the create block theme, and I'm gonna just make this a little bigger, at least for me, it's a little small and I'll put it back after. I just wanna be able to capture this better on the screen. We have a few options as soon as you get to this plugin page, you can export 2023, which we didn't really wanna do. It's just gonna export it as it is. Oh, it's great when it's bigger. Awesome. We can create a child of 2023. So it'll just create a child of it so that you can create new variations. We can clone 2023. This will have all of the assets of the activated theme as well as the user changes, but this will essentially like clone it, but 2023 won't be the parent theme, if that makes sense. We can overwrite 2023. Actually, as I'm going through, I'm so sorry. Let me click on each one. So when I click on it, we get different options as well. Theme name, short description, you can add it to your public page where people can find more information. These settings typically don't change, except when you're exporting, you're not gonna get that setting, creating, cloning, it's a similar thing. You wanna name your new cloned theme, and that's the only thing required of this. So if you just wanna get in and get started, you don't have to fill in all this information. You can edit that later. You can just start with the theme name. Also overwrite, you see that option disappears because you're overwriting what's already there. So there's not much that's gonna be editable in terms of the theme information. Create a blank theme. This is a new theme creation.  And you see here, it says, save user changes as a style variation of 2023. It's essentially using what's currently installed when it's telling this directive here. So right now, if I was just like, hey, I would like to make a style variation of 2023 named gold, it would create that name, and then I should be able to edit and save that. So question, if you clone the theme, will there be changes if the theme updates? So that I believe is the difference between creating a child theme or overwriting. In my mind, I believe it has the assets, but it's not the same theme if that makes sense. So it's like, yeah, you clone it and then you can make all the changes, but it's not gonna update whenever 2023 updates is how I believe this functionality works. So it will update because you'll probably name it something else. Yes, right, exactly. So I think that's where the naming portion is critical too, like, because that's a way, and where the public URL where users can find more information about, it's like creating a new theme.  So I do wanna note a couple of things here too, and let me share a resource for child themes. So if you decide you wanna make a child theme, for example, if you're making extensive customizations beyond styles and a few theme files, creating a parent theme like cloning might be a better option than a child theme because creating a parent theme allows you to avoid issues with deprecated code as well in the future. And this needs to be decided on like a case-by-case basis. And when you create a child theme, it inherits the look and feel of the parent theme and all of its functions, but can be used to make modifications to any part of the theme. So those are some critical points to note if you're trying to think about do I clone versus do I want a child theme? How many edits are you hoping to make? Is the parent theme actually perfect, but this one little thing? Or do you wanna change a lot about the parent theme? And if you wanna change a lot about it, it might be best to clone it or create a theme from scratch. And we have another question. Can you make a child theme of a Genesis theme? We're asking for clarification. Are we referring to a theme made with a Genesis framework? Or is there a theme called Genesis? It would need to be a theme that is installed on your site. So if this is a theme installed on your site, you could clone it. But Ben is answering or sharing some more information about WordPress Genesis and child themes. Maybe that will be helpful for you. Okay, but please keep the questions growing. This is really great already.  So we'll name this theme my travel theme. You know, I'm very descriptive here. And we're gonna click generate. Bam, that was what? Like two seconds, blank theme created, head over to appearance and themes. Okay, let's head over to appearance and themes. And I'm gonna just one down size here. But you can see here, my travel theme. It's already ready. And because I didn't input any information about this, there's nothing here, right? You see, there's no image, there's no description. It's bi-anonymous, it sounds a little foreboding, but it's not. If I had decided to put all that information in, it would have propagated in this. So at the bare minimum, you can get away with, you know, just having this theme with a name. And then you can edit these theme informational details afterward. So I'm gonna go ahead and activate this theme. And if we refresh my page, it's pretty bleh. It's not giving anything fun right now. And that's because it doesn't have any template pages. So I do wanna double back here for the vocal record here. We have some folks chiming in around Genesis. Linda's saying that Genesis is the building block similar to WordPress, but there are themes that go with Genesis that are already child themes of Genesis. Is a separate framework. Yes, the create block theme plugin works with any block theme, that's correct. So Genesis, Elementor, Divi et al will be different. Yes, and Nomad is noting that there'll be less and less need for these frameworks with what we're learning today. Yay, yeah, I hope so. Okay, with this activated, we're gonna do one thing first. So let's look at this managed theme fonts. Right here, you see that all I have is the system font, which means that that's the only font I'm gonna be able to play around with in this new theme of mine. But we want variety here. So let's add a couple of fonts. And I do wanna share that these are pulled from Google fonts and it's pretty easy to select a new font. I just clicked on add font and maybe it's a little too easy because you get this long list of fonts that you could use for your site, which is great too, because variety is amazing. But if you don't know what these fonts look like, don't worry, there's a little preview you get as well and you can check which variants you want. So you don't have to have every single type of this font with your new theme. You can just select a couple of versions. I know this one, so I'm gonna put that in there. Let's see, that's a little too much for me. But you can have fun with this too. This is probably not the fastest way to review a lot of fonts. I just linked you the fonts.google.com where you can more quickly see which fonts are at your disposal here. But that would probably be the best way, in my opinion, to see which fonts you can add at a glance. Otherwise, you're gonna be like clicking, looking, clicking, looking. So definitely utilize this resource to get a quick look at what could be the fit for you. Okay, I just chose a couple of fonts you don't wanna spend too much time there, but as you can see, you already have so much at your disposal here in terms of font variations, which is pretty awesome and something that was pretty difficult before you had to have, at least in my experience, where I don't have that much technical knowledge, it had to like add another plugin to do this. All right, so we chose a couple of fonts. So here we go, we have a couple of questions. So I've gone through Google Fonts and made a list of my favorites on a Post-it note. Yes, Laura, that is really good. Actually, I should add that to the quick tips, like get your fonts ready too. You don't wanna spend hours just reviewing fonts and you just wanna build a theme.  How many is too many from Karen? That is a good question. I'm not sure if it would slow down your site too much, but I'm always in the team of use only what you need. If you install 50 plugins, for example, you're probably gonna bog down performance. If you install 50 fonts, are you gonna use all of those fonts? We have to be a little realistic there too. And if someone has a more direct answer, please do chime in. But in the meantime, I'm gonna go to the editor. And right now you see at the top here, index is the page that we're playing with right now. When you have no other templates on your site, index is the only template that you're gonna have.  But of course, this isn't really giving us some front page energy. So I'm gonna click here on the left and then go to templates. And then you can see, oh yeah, I just have index, but we can add more. And today we wanna add a front page template. So shock, it doesn't look much different from the index, but that's okay. This is where you now as the theme creator can start playing around with your new theme. So if we kind of double back to my sketch here, we can just review some of the aspects I wanted. So probably my header needs to be changed. We need this header image here, and maybe like a cover block, and then three featured articles. So let's work on that first half. We've got some action going on in the chat, but looks okay. There's an article on Google Fonts clogging up your site. So we can try to grab the link to that too for folks to reference later. Okay, so opening up the list view is gonna be the best way in my opinion to just figure out what's going on here. So just looking at the header alone, you can see this isn't quite the flow that I want. In the header and footer, I wanna make sure folks know our two template parts as well. So that's why they have this little fancy icon. And I don't have to edit it here. So I'm gonna go click my header and click edit. It's gonna take me to the header template part. So I'll just play around with this here a bit. This just gives me like a dedicated space to update the header. So I've already got a couple of things in my navigation, but this logo should be in the middle. I probably don't need to rows. So let's see here. I don't have to completely change too much of what's going on, but I'm gonna pull my logo out into this row on the top. Yeah, maybe I want the site tagline. I'm gonna pull that above here, or site title. Let's see the site title. Yeah. Don't want the site tagline. I'm gonna remove it. I do want the navigation. Let's push this here. And then I'm gonna remove this other row. So everything is now on one row. And you see here, there's this huge space at the bottom. I don't want that either. I'm gonna remove the spacer. I kind of want it to be flush. Oh, no worries Linda. I chose the create a blank theme. So we're completely going from scratch here. And I've just created now a homepage template and we're playing with the header of that. So to get a bit more into it here, let me see, let's stretch this out a little bit more. These panels are a little big. Okay. Yeah, so here we can see what's going on with my groups. There's a lot of spacing that I could apply here to the group as a whole. For one, I don't like that this row is so flush to the side. So I've selected the row. And I think the bottom and the top is fine, but left, you see now on the left, this is flush, but I bumped it up to two. It's now a little more centered. And I can do the same on the right side as well. So let's do that. And I'm gonna work with the same kind of universal setting here. So let's update this to maybe four on the top and four on the bottom. And that is pretty much thick enough for me. Another thing I wanted to change is this site logo from square to rounded. So I'm just gonna round that off there. And here with my site title, I don't want it to be a link. And I don't want it to say create block theme. So let's say Japan travel or something to denote what type of site it is. And you can see here, let's look at the typography for a second because we wanna see if my font families that I chose are even here. So default is set, but yes, the cabin and Roboto that I chose for my theme are here. So let's put it in Roboto. And honestly, that looks fine to me. The only other thing, let's leave this like this for now. So we're done playing with the header. There's a couple of changes now that I've made, right? I've changed the title. So it's gonna ask me if I wanna change that throughout the whole site, which I do. And now because I edited this template part, it's asking me to update it. So I do wanna update that. And from there, we can go back to our site template and our front page. So now the header that I've just edited is ready for action here. Looking all right, looking better than before. But what I had next was a kind of cover area. So I'm gonna just click these three vertical dots and then do insert after and do a cover block. I did a backslash and typed in cover that backslash allows you to search through the block library. And I already have some images loaded up in my media library. So I'll just choose one of these nice little images here. Let's do these beautiful mountains. And I don't know, I'm not gonna write anything here. I have the title up there. If you wanted to, you could, I don't know, live your best life list, your best list. Actually that kind of works too. But live, oh my gosh, live your best life if you want to write something there. You don't have to. I just wanna give you all of you of what that could look like. And let's change the font here to a Roboto. So with the cover image as well, you have things like opacity settings of this overlay. You can make it as dark or as light as you'd like and write text over it. I hear that text on an overlay is not always the best. So I'm gonna just remove that for now, especially cause my tagline was a little silly. And now what we have is this kind of this flesh header. Ooh, it's not flesh, I want it to be flesh. So we can work on that too. Sometimes as you're going through, you'll discover there's just some dimensions that are not making it as flesh as you want it to. So I did get this flesh before and you can just play around and find the setting cause there is something here. And it might be in the row, not the bottom, not the margin. Sometimes it's grouping, I'm gonna try on grouping real quick. It's not the grouping. Well, we'll figure this out. Our next step here is creating this three featured posts here. So what I'm gonna do is under my cover, do an insert after. And so I'll show you another way to add blocks here. I'll just click this, add, oh, add pattern. That's gonna tell me to add a block. That's not what I wanna do, but that's very interesting. Well, I'm gonna click here and do my backslash because I want a query loop. I know I have one below, but I wanna show the fresh start of a query loop here. So we're gonna choose, you can start blank, which isn't actually blank. It'll ask you if you want to do things like the title or excerpt at minimum. But here, when you click on choose, you have some patterns already available to you. And this is another reason why having content already in there is just better for these kinds of choices because otherwise you won't be able to get this visual representation of what you want it to look like. So I am gonna do this one where it has things in a row, a column of three, but I only want three posts to show up here. And I don't, there's a couple of changes I wanna make. So right now it's inheriting the query from the template. I'm gonna turn that off. So now I can manipulate to this query loop a bit more. There's this display settings. And right now it's items for page six. I'm gonna move that to three. So now I only have that three section. And then going a little deeper into my query loop, we can see the composition of it. So we've got the post title. I wanted a featured image, actually. And as I was playing around with this, I discovered something really fun, which was I put a cover here and I chose use featured image as the cover. So now the featured image of the post that I am choosing is there dynamically, which I hadn't done before. If you have done it before, I'm sorry, I'm not showing something new, but I thought that was really cool because now I'm gonna grab these three and then put it under the cover. Okay, and hold it right a moment. Okay, don't worry, I'm gonna fix this. But I'm gonna remove this paragraph. Sometimes I do wanna point this out. I get confused sometimes when I click on this and I'm like, oh, where's the remove? Just scroll, take a breath and just scroll down a little, it's there. It's getting into quite long of a menu now, but I can remove it that way. Okay, so now we have all this great stuff, but we can't see anything. I'm gonna do another insert before and do a little cover inception here, cover inception. And then drag this stuff into that cover. So we've got a double cover here, but in the back is my featured image, to which you're like, but Destiny, you can't even see it now, what are you up to? This is where you could have that fun overlay, play around, fade thing. Just make sure your other colors are strong so that you don't make it difficult for folks to click through. So I just wanted to point that out as an option to folks because I thought that was pretty interesting. You can also then go in and add a background to group this, for example, and then add a background color so that it's not as strong and it looks wild in that sizing, but I just wanted to show, yeah, give you all some ideas of how this could actually look. So let's save here. And this was the front page before, it wasn't giving much creativity, but now we've added a couple of things. And already I think it's looking like a sight. Of course, this could still use some love, changing this overlay, like the white on the overlay color, doesn't look so great. So these are just some ideas, no one was noting that you can play around with to make it look like a unique sight. And so whenever these posts get updated, new posts get added, it's gonna automatically pull in the featured image in the back. It'll automatically have this design, which is pretty interesting to me. I'm gonna remove that white background is a little distracting for me. And yeah, you can do all your other design things like centering the title, add a read more button, as it tells you to, you can move things around here, just to make it your own. And I'll do an insert after and read more. Something I like to do with the read more button is just give it some, well, it's just read more link, but you can make it look like a button. I should clarify that. Let's give it some there. So people can click into these posts. So already it's looking like, hopefully a theme that someone would try to install on their site for travel. More design is always something you can do. Okay, I'm gonna stop there. We've already got halfway through here. And let me see here, we've got another question. Little advanced, but can you set the query loop to allow posts from different categories? For example, if you have three categories, like BNB, marinas and hotels, could you set the first block to bring in BNBs, the middle block to bring in marinas, and the block to the right? Yes, Linda, but not in this way. You would use columns for that or rows. Maybe rows would be best. So you would create three rows with three different query loops and then set those categories in those query loops. So then I hope it's making sense already, but it's each contained query loop. Yeah, but if you wanted to, since this is one single query loop, if you're like, I want only those two categories or three categories to be shown here, that's where going down in the query loop and using the filter taxonomies will be really helpful here. If you just wanted in this section alone, the three top categories to show, for example. But if you want each row to show a different one, each time that is updated, yeah. Try a row or a column. I think row would be best. Okay, so we've done a little design fun right there. You could do design forever. We only got 18 minutes, so I'm gonna do an insert after here as well. I will put a little asterisk here and say try to click the whole block before doing an insert after.  And here I'm gonna do another cover with just a color here because I just wanna have a section. So hottest new travel spots. I know I'm really bad at thinking up taglines, but here with a cover, you can manipulate how big this is. You can also make sure that it is edge to edge, toggle full height with your content.  And then you have this kind of cover in a cover thing where you can manipulate that a bit further as well, maybe adjust the overlay a little bit. And that gives you just a little bit more design difference there. Okay, so that's our section, our cover cover section. And I'm gonna do an insert after there because going back to our thing, we've almost nailed it all, but now we have this section here where we want posts and this section here where we want like a kind of sidebar thing. So I'm gonna go in here and I'm gonna use, this is a hard choice. So, sorry, I'm having to get internal battle. When I did this demo by myself, I did do a column. I think there's like some false sense of security when it comes to columns because especially they give you this visual reference of what it's gonna look like. So I'm gonna stick with what I did before just to show you how I've done it. But essentially this left column is gonna have my query loop with my posts and then my right column is gonna have my sidebar, whatever that's gonna be. So in this column, let's start adding a query loop. And as you can see here, what I wanted was like one big one here and then like two posts on the side. And this is kind of getting into what you were talking about just now, Linda. What I did here was actually before this I'm gonna insert before. I did a row within the column. Yeah, and that's where I put my query loop. So I'm gonna drag and drop this query loop. It's gonna be really fast, but drag and drop it into there. And then I can choose the kind of big style that I wanted here, which was something like this should be fine. Yeah, actually I like how this looks. Let's do one of these. And then once again, pardon me. Since we don't want a bunch of posts here, we wanna have more modify it, make it more modifiable. So I'm gonna remove the setting to inherit query from template and mess with the items for page. So I want one item per page. There you go. Sometimes, okay, I do wanna note this too. Sometimes as you're going around playing with the query loop it doesn't update automatically. Don't get scared that your changes aren't being made here. Just try to click around to another area on the site so that it can update or just save and publish and you'll be fine. I countered that a couple of times, but I just wanna note, don't freak out. It's still capturing what you're trying to do. So this query loop, I have only one showing. And what I did here as well because that same ikutsuima tour is at the top. These are the top three ones. I want this post to start from four. So I get an entirely new post down here in this section. So it's only gonna show one and it's gonna show from four. So this means the fourth post. It's gonna skip the first three and show the fourth post. So that's what I've done in this column. And this definitely gets tricky very quickly. So let's have a look here. Mountainscapes, huh? Or did I just psych myself out? Let me tell myself, let me do what I said. I should do a little refresh here. No, it's still pulling. So I think there's two columns in here, but that is okay. The template, the query loop template you used added an extra column. Added an extra column. Okay, brilliant. So then we'll just pull this up. Will you not let me? Ha-ha. Okay, and then we'll... Actually, oh yeah. No, that's fine. Okay, cool. Let's remove this here. There we go. Crisis averted. What are you? You're another group, go away. Okay, as someone said before, this is the reality of creating a theme. Okay, so we have this one row with this one item with that design that I wanted. But we also want on the other side of it to have another query loop. So I'm going to do an insert after here and we'll do another query loop. And for this one, we can keep it simple as well and choose maybe this one here. It'll give me two things on the side. Going into the settings once more, we're going to do the same formula we did with the other one. So now this one should be offset by five so that it's not showing us again this Japanese mountainscapes post. And then I only want two shown here. Right now it's looking a little wild, don't worry. It's not obeying my... Hey, Destiny, you just put the numbers opposite of what you wanted. Oh, thank you so much too. I was like, well, this is getting wild. And five, thank you. All right, perfect. So we have those two new items showing right there. And let's save so we can see what this looks like on the front page and refresh. Okay, this is all right, but definitely the left side is not the sizing I wanted and that could be definitely due to the query loop that I chose for this. So I would say don't be discouraged by that. You can just manipulate the query loop with another pattern or adjust it yourself to something different. So I won't, in the essence of time, I won't keep playing around with that because there's some other aspects we wanted to work on today, but I did wanna show how you can have two different types of post styles here. And then we can work with some kind of sidebar which I don't know, for some sites, it might be like a subscription kind of thing. So maybe you wanna add here, and I should have found like a kind of subscribe template. Well, this is where patterns might come in handy. So I've just pulled up this patterns directory here so that we can see if there's anything we can just quickly steal for the sidebar. Cause I honestly just wanted some kind of like, hey, subscribe to our newsletter type thing. And with this, I'm gonna copy here and go in here. This one looks just fine. Copy pattern, jump back to here. And hopefully while I'm there, I can just paste in there. Let's see, maybe I need a paragraph first and paste. So now we have on the, yeah, perfect. Work smarter, not harder pattern that we just chose and I just pasted it right there. There's a subscribe block now. Maybe I don't have that. Maybe I need Gutenberg installed on this site. But let's save that and do a refresh. So now I have this kind of sidebar space. And I know some of you are thinking, doesn't this does not look design beautiful? And you know, that's fine. That's why you can keep playing around with it, right? We just wanna have like the basic principles of the layout that we want, right? And then we can keep working on the design afterward. And my last thing here that I had was, oops, sorry about that, some more posts at the bottom here. So after all of this column work is said and done, I would simply just add a, let's go under this column. Yeah, here we are. Ooh, we're just gonna add another query loop. Not from the pattern though. Oh, here we go. Let's do an insert after and we'll add one last query loop very quickly. This one that I added was three posts. So we're gonna do another template three posts one. You can also duplicate a pattern that you've already created. So I think there's a sub, subscribe. Yeah, that's a good point, Ben, that the subscribe boxes are usually introduced by plugins or your host. So as you're creating a theme, this is placeholder, right? Like this is telling your potential activator of your theme, hey, this is where you could put a subscribe to your newsletter section. So they can replace this with their subscription service of choice. But after here, I'm just gonna add to this one last query loop. We're getting down to the wire here, but a featured image just so we can see some things here and do that one last manipulation of the query loop. Block, so it doesn't inherit. We can make sure that we're doing the right thing here, items for page three. And then now we wanna offset from, I think it should be seven now. I'm gonna do six just so we can see one more. I should have created more and more posts. But now we have those three posts at the bottom that maybe loads more if people keep scrolling and we'll go back to the front and refresh. So there are so many other little design things I wanted to do, but design takes time. And first, just getting the layout you want is critical. So I think I've done as much as I can here and it's all saved. So I just wanna show you all one last thing. Going back to the dashboard, we can go to create block theme. And now once you've done your finishing design touches and made it as beautiful as you'd like, we can export my travel theme. And I'm gonna quickly open up one other test site that I have, my throwback to my plant mom journey here. And we're gonna go to appearance and just add this theme we created and install now. Theme installed successfully. Yes, that's the first step. And let's activate it. Oh, actually, hold on. Let me go, we're gonna activate this. Let's do the before and after. So if we visit the site now, this is my plant mom journey. It's all right. This was built with patterns. I've duplicated this monstera post a couple of times for this purpose. And let's activate now the new travel theme that we've just created with this create block theme and refresh. So now it's following, I mean, it's not that pretty right now, but the design aspects that we've put in to the travel theme we just created. So these three spotlighted posts with the featured image behind. We have our double cover. We have that layout that looks somehow better on here. I guess it's the pictures. And then that sidebar and then the three posts. So it's following the principles, the principle layout that we set for the theme that we just created. Last step, make it pretty or prettier. And that's all I have for you today, folks. I know that was a lot. I hope there was enough time for you to digest a bit of it. But within 40 minutes, we created the framework of a theme. And from there, you can of course, work on creating your other template pages for your theme once the homepage is down. And yeah, yes, that's correct. So you can take your newly created theme and sell it or share it. It's 100% new block theme created by you. You'll just wanna edit all the details. So the new theme would need to be updated by you. So there's a couple of things you could do. You could put the code on GitHub and update it there. If you have, I'm not really like too sure about this, but like if you're like a theme dispensary, like you can push the updates, right? From where it's hosted. But in general, this right now, my version 0.1 would just exist as it is until I decide to update it and create a version two, for example. I think maybe versioning would need to be a separate session. Yeah, I'm glad you think it's awesome, Linda. Yay, I think it's awesome too. The first time I did this theme, it looked a little better, not gonna lie, but I think that's because I had way more time to play with it, but that's okay. It's not about making it look pretty, it's about making sure we all understand like what's possible. So as you go along here, I do wanna share with you a couple of resources. As you're playing with this, there is the support thread for this. So if you have any questions, anything goes wrong, please definitely share that with the community. And then to get some inspiration on blocks, you can also look at the pattern. Linda asks, if you want to update, you could create your new theme as a child theme. You totally could. If you just wanna make a few edits, yeah, why not? About time, wow, that would buy so quickly. I'm gonna stop my share. Thank you so much, everyone. I had so much fun. Thank you for as always the brilliant questions you have. You really always get my mind loading up and thinking about things differently.


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