User Experience Design

Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

User Experience Design

MIS 3506.002 ■ Fall 2022 ■ Matthew Wolf

Project Technical Details

The Genesis Framework

Genesis is a website design framework published by StudioPress. For example, the main MIS Community site is built on top of the Genesis framework with the NewsPro theme.

  • Temple has a site license to lynda.com (now part of LinkedIn) which includes excellent step-by-step tutorials on how to use Genesis.
  • Click the following link: Learning Genesis for WordPress. Sign in using your Temple AccessNet credentials to benefit from the site license.
  • Please ignore the sections in the tutorial about Installing the Genesis Framework or working with templates.
  • We will use a special project server https://project.mis.temple.edu/ available for this class. Students in this class will be able to automatically access this server using Temple AccessNet credentials. 
  • The server contains the Genesis framework and most of the themes produced by StudioPress.

Getting started

  • Start watching the Lynda tutorial and experiment using your own site.  Note that you must complete the course as part of your course assignments, so watching it early is a good thing!
  • To create a site, login to https://project.mis.temple.edu/  hover on Hello,…, Sites, and click Create a Site. 
  • Click on the URL of the new site in the new message/alert to visit it.

Project Server Collaboration

Enable collaboration between your team and your instructor as follows:

  • One team member creates the site. It does not matter who creates the site. 
  • The team member who creates the site, adds the second team member and instructor as follows: 
  1. Login and navigate to the Dashboard of the new site. 
  2. Click on Users on the left
  3. Click Add New
  4. Fill in the details for Add Existing User. 
  5. Type in the AccessNet ID of the second team member. The AccessNet ID is the first part of the Temple email address. For example, Jonathan Yang’s email address is tug55842@temple.edu, so the AccessNet ID is tug55842. 
  6. For Role, select Administrator from the dropdown. 
  7. To immediately provide full access to your team member check the box that says “Add the user without sending an email that requires their confirmation.”
  8. Ignore the Other Roles box. 
  9. Click Add Existing User (blue button)

Note: On step 5 above, it will be more convenient for your team member if you use their AccessNet ID rather than some other random email. This way they can use their existing validated Temple credentials to immediately access the site.