Blogging!
This blog began from Oct 2018, which is the time I started my MA course. At early stage, I used blog to record some experiment and notes on seminar. It is a good way to save and share ideas though nobody ever came here😢😢, it is still a good place I can record my academic life. furthermore, I develop my Blog by Hexo framework, so I learn much knowledge about Web development. And I’m developing more function and style by myself, which real good for my coding ability and career. Let’s talk about more about my Blog construction, function, and future expectation.
Categories
Category is important to sort post. I used different Caties(categories) to define different function of articles / posts. different caties have individual style and layout, and they have differnt content on index, which support clear information to audience or myself.
Journal
This is the essential of blog, most post were defined as Journal, which carry general content, such as note, ideas, experiment, anything else. It could not be academic, and sometime will be post images. So, the layout on index can be divided as two style, preview content& image and abstract.
gallery
This is a important class for a visual artist. It shows preview image on index for direct visual expression. Furthermore, the image can be clicked as new block, user can click button to change and scan image of a post. It basically is used to post my outcome or visual experiment.
As the increasement of image, I found I might need more style to show differnt kinds of image, such as drawing, photography, vector graphic, motion graphic, video. They are definitely differnt, when I exhibit them, should I use differnt size / resolution ? Maybe. So I add some options in module programme, when code checked differnt type, it generate relateive layout.
research
As digital artist, I would like do research on computer, as well as experiment, so most recording and research article are saved on computer. Then I create this cat as my sketchbook, all of file or text / image can saved and post on research cat, so peers and tutor can easily relize what Im doing. Because it could be simple or short, sometimes massive text from copy and reference, so I decided to use Tag to abstract content of post as research cat. Which means, index only show tag of this kind of post, I and others can click tag to gain more relatvie information from same tag of post. It is a good way to expand idea horizontally.
reflection
Reflection will be academic when I post that. In future, I will add Grammaly or Translate API to help different language user to understand my article. On index, reflection block will show preview content and catelog and content guide, which means, audience can click a interesting Part / heading of content, and he will go to the sepcific postion of this post. By this way, audience could quickly understand what I’ve done, what steps I used, thinking process.
Other expectation
I’m going to develop a new cat which can collect ideas. Sometimes I used journal to record idea, but idea could be really short and shuffle, it can not be a article, and it will be burden(累赘) for index, if too many short post are displayed on index. That’s the reason I want to build a idea Page, in this page, all of idea will be grouped and showed, with relative tag, is it sounds really cool? I can shuffle these ideas and randomly scan them when I want to find inspiration. Maybe I can add some function to allow user select some words, and programme will use google search, and find some interdisciplinary research.