Project 3 — Design

 

• Site Lay­out
  → WP Guide: Chang­ing to Sta­tic Front Page (with Entries)

   

• Design/Media Resources:
   
  • Exam­ples below

   

• Web­mon­key HTML Cheat Sheet
• Photoshop.com
• Pixlr
  
• Gifff.fr (“from YouTube link into GIF in three easy steps”)
• GIFSoup.com: YouTube to Ani­mated GIF
• Gickr
• Cin­ema­gram (“stun­ning mov­ing pho­tos” / “hybrid photo-video” app) — exam­ples
• Vine  |  Insta­gram Video
• Ani­moto
• Ani­ma­tion instruc­tions (3 appli­ca­tions) @ YouTube Cre­ate
• Tagxedo
• Rdio — embed playlists
• Inter­net Archive
• Google Image Search

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Lay­out: Blog refor­mat­ted for project; (see instruc­tions below).

1. Sta­tic home page cre­ated.
    
2. “Entries” page cre­ated.
    
3. Required Pages cre­ated
    
4. New title (cre­ative / applic­a­ble, re: “Emer­A­gency under­tak­ing” of your project)
    
5. New theme (blog tem­plate)
    
6. Cat­e­gories and Tags (cre­ate, rel­a­tive to topic)
    
7. All old entries cat­e­go­rized and tagged);
   — e.g. “weekly entry,” “research,” “response / exercise”

    

8. Wid­gets: “Cat­e­gories” and “Tag Cloud” (min­i­mum / required) — Social Media/Network? (sug­gested)
    

 

 

 

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Blog For­mat / Lay­out Instructions

 

 

* Cru­cial Pre­lim­i­nary step: Cre­ate / update new Pages

1) Cre­ate a new page that will become your home/front page.
 
2) Cre­ate a new page titled “Entries” or “Posts” (leave blank)
 
3) Con­vert blog to sta­tic home page (WP Guide)
 
(?) Cre­ate / update your About page.
 
4) (impor­tant) Update your Cus­tom Menu

 

 

 
 

New Theme & Title

Change Theme to one expres­sive of wide site & assemblage.

1) Dash­board → Appear­ance → Themes

Change title: re-name your blog with an apt title for project.

1) Dash­board → Set­tings → Blog Title & Tagline

Enable “Tag cloud” & “Cat­e­gories” widget

1) Dash­board → Appear­ance → Widgets

* To tag and cat­e­go­rize entries:

1) Dash­board → Posts → Edit Posts

2) Select post to Edit → Add/type tags (right col­umn) → Click “Add” Button.

3) “Cat­e­gories” → Choose/create (right column)

*4) Click “Update” (right col­umn) to save (not updated, otherwise).

→ reminder: don’t for­get to tag & cat­e­go­rize old entries

 
 
 

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Tech­ni­cal Notes

 

» If using an image in entry,
con­sider post­ing one that is expres­sive (of mood in par­tic­u­larly sit­u­a­tion) rather than in mode of rep­re­sen­ta­tion.
 
→ To this end, sug­gested to use a manip­u­lated / edited image
(via Pho­to­shop, Pixlr, etc.).
 
— Con­sider expres­sion of posi­tion / per­spec­tive of the expe­ri­ence, (rather than a ratio­nal depic­tion or objec­tive reference).

• For exam­ple, col­lage, mon­tage (sim­u­lated, “sto­ry­board”?); abstract illus­tra­tion, graphic dia­gram / chart, refash­ioned (age/time?), Sit­u­a­tion­ist Inter­na­tional tech­nique (Décol­lage, détourne­ment, mapped dérive)

   

  

   

   

   
  » Image Edit­ing (Adobe alternatives):

  Pixlr
  ** Pixlr Grab­ber (exten­sion) — image capture

   
  GIMP (all oper­at­ing sys­tems)
   
  Pho­to­scape
   
  Pix­el­ma­tor (Mac OS only)
   
  Pho­to­shop Express — Web & App (mobile + tablet)
   
  Aviary app (Android & iOS)

   
   
  Cre­at­ing your own GIFs:

  • Gifff.fr (“from YouTube link into GIF in three easy steps”)

  • GIFSoup.com: YouTube to Ani­mated GIF
  • Gickr

   
  → sug­ges­tion: save GIF file & upload to your WP Media Library
   

   

   

   

  » If using audio:
  — try to embed the song or a clip when­ever pos­si­ble.
  → Recommended:

  • You might “trim” the track to just play par­tic­u­lar sequence/instance, using free soft­ware like

    Audac­ity

  • Then, upload your new file (edited, not orig­i­nal song) to Sound­cloud to embed
    (or use a free file stor­age site like Drop­box, Medi­afire, etc.)

   
   

  » For cre­at­ing video (Extra Credit for orig­i­nal work):

  • WeV­ideo
     
  • Scratch

   

  • Ani­moto
    — “Ani­moto auto­mat­i­cally pro­duces beau­ti­fully orches­trated, com­pletely unique video pieces from your pho­tos, video clips, and music.” (30-second clips)

     

  • SnagIt — screen­cast­ing in Chrome & G.Drive

     

  • Cam­Stu­dio
    — “Cam­Stu­dio is able to record all screen and audio activ­ity on your com­puter and cre­ate industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Pro­ducer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Stream­ing Flash videos (SWFs)”

     

  • Shwup beta
    — “Cre­ate fun home movies that we call muvees! You choose the con­tent, pick a style, your choice of music, and with the click of a but­ton, shwup will make you a muvee!”

     

  • OneTrue­Me­dia
    — free 30-second mon­tage video creation

     

  • Dig­i­tal­Films
    — free 30-second mon­tage video creation

     

  • iMovie (Mac)
     
  • Movie Maker (Win)
     

   
  » YouTube “Upload­ing Videos” (Help Topic)

  » YouTube: “Edit­ing Videos” (guide)

  • “Mak­ing and Opti­miz­ing Your Videos” (guide)
     
  • Upload­ing from YouTube for Mobile