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Screenshot of Dallas Association for Parent Education Website

Dallas Association for Parent Education

What We Did

D.A.P.E., Dallas Association for Parent Education, provides classes in Childbirth Preparation, Baby Care Basics, Parenting classes and Teacher/Parent Weekend Workshops. They also host several conferences each year for parents and teachers- these are called ”D.A.P.E. PRESENTS: Special Topics”. DAPE is solely supported through private grants, donations and class revenue; currently we receive NO direct federal/government funding.

The students worked well as a team. They took a much older website and completely updated its look and functionality. They gathered great photos to exemplify the purposes for DAPE. They organized the content well, including a table of helpful pdf files with advice for parents. And, the part I really enjoyed was that they worked well together as a team. Everyone did their part.

What I Taught

I serve as technical support for these teams. Although previously I had gotten help from my webhost to install WordPress, I felt ready to do it myself this time. I also created the database that WordPress runs on. When DAPE was ready, I used the Duplicator plugin to migrate the database and FTP to upload the php files to DAPE's webhost account. After setting up the webiste, I provided training for DAPE's staff so that they could update the website themselves.

The Team

  • Manager-Hayley Eubank
  • Piper Cardwell
  • Johnnie Watts
  • Kris Yunc