I've been talking about this for years. It will be the thing to tie all my projects and interests together. Hopefully. I already own the domain, I need to give it form and content. The content is being created all the time, I just need to build the website to put them in.
Various items and steps I need:
1) Requirements document - what is it suppose to do?
** 7/18/09 - sections
** 7/21/09 - drill down and links **
Sections:
- Home - about, news, feeds from other section, blog, web amusement (feed: macchiatomind.blogspot.com + historical blogs http://patrishie.livejournal.com/ http://patrishie.xanga.com/, macchiatodaily.tumblr.com, macchiatoprojects.blogspot.com, twitter) - probably will break down into smaller sections and have feed into main page. Will have to see after pooling all content together. **updated 9/13/09**
- Photography - my photos, gear, techniques (feed: macchiatotogo.tumblr.com, flickr)
- Food - recipe, restaurants, reviews
- Travel - places I've been, places I want to go (drill down - continent, country, city, neighborhood, attraction/place, feature and related items)
- Literature - books I want to read, books I have read, reviews, discoveries, analysis, writing (projects?) (feed: macchiatoink.tumblr.com)
- Fitness - long distance running, weight management, nutrition
- Art - crochet, paper craft, painting, arts (review?) (feed: macchiatocrafts.tumblr.com)
Sections:
- Home - about, news, feeds from other section, blog, web amusement (feed: macchiatomind.blogspot.com + historical blogs http://patrishie.livejournal.com/ http://patrishie.xanga.com/, macchiatodaily.tumblr.com, macchiatoprojects.blogspot.com, twitter) - probably will break down into smaller sections and have feed into main page. Will have to see after pooling all content together. **updated 9/13/09**
- Photography - my photos, gear, techniques (feed: macchiatotogo.tumblr.com, flickr)
- Food - recipe, restaurants, reviews
- Travel - places I've been, places I want to go (drill down - continent, country, city, neighborhood, attraction/place, feature and related items)
- Literature - books I want to read, books I have read, reviews, discoveries, analysis, writing (projects?) (feed: macchiatoink.tumblr.com)
- Fitness - long distance running, weight management, nutrition
- Art - crochet, paper craft, painting, arts (review?) (feed: macchiatocrafts.tumblr.com)
- Media - music, movies, tv, etc.
- Links and References (own consolidated page with reference from each section?)
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**9/13/09**
Reclaimed all the old blogs on blogger and was able to log into xanga and livejournal for the first couple of blogs I made. Best thing to do is to pool them all together into one single blog and archive for continuity. That will take some work because I don't think xanga and livejournal exports easily. There will be a lot of cut and paste. Good thing is you can set the date and time in blogger. Still have not decided if I want to keep using blogger as my blog content management. It might not be a terrible idea since it's easy to import and export. At the same time I do want to fully own my contents and not just post it to google.
Having a single RSS feed from blogger and tumblr is not a bad idea for just the strictly blog part on the convenience standpoint. That as a whole can be a news feed. Seperate pages for just blogger and just tumblr feed. Publication on other parts of site will feed into news feed. Side bar RSS for twitter.
May have to work on facebook integration later - send updates to facebook to trigger visits. Will need to add visit counter and tracker.
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2) User Interface design - how is it suppose to look like?
** 7/18/09 **
Uniform frame with same section selection. Different content feeds within frame. Display same sidebar contents for every page. Bold and easy to navigate. Simple, contrasting colors. Easy on eye.
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- Links and References (own consolidated page with reference from each section?)
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**9/13/09**
Reclaimed all the old blogs on blogger and was able to log into xanga and livejournal for the first couple of blogs I made. Best thing to do is to pool them all together into one single blog and archive for continuity. That will take some work because I don't think xanga and livejournal exports easily. There will be a lot of cut and paste. Good thing is you can set the date and time in blogger. Still have not decided if I want to keep using blogger as my blog content management. It might not be a terrible idea since it's easy to import and export. At the same time I do want to fully own my contents and not just post it to google.
Having a single RSS feed from blogger and tumblr is not a bad idea for just the strictly blog part on the convenience standpoint. That as a whole can be a news feed. Seperate pages for just blogger and just tumblr feed. Publication on other parts of site will feed into news feed. Side bar RSS for twitter.
May have to work on facebook integration later - send updates to facebook to trigger visits. Will need to add visit counter and tracker.
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2) User Interface design - how is it suppose to look like?
** 7/18/09 **
Uniform frame with same section selection. Different content feeds within frame. Display same sidebar contents for every page. Bold and easy to navigate. Simple, contrasting colors. Easy on eye.
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** 7/21/09 **
Smaller section links on side for expansion. Those links follow top level section. Home icon -top level section - second level section - article. Date posted, tags, page statistics(?)
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3) Technical design document - how is it suppose to work?
** 7/18/09**
Modular. Can take feeds from different content systems(?). Take feed from blogger, tumblr, and flickr. Most likely using PHP. Support content search and searchable tags (external tags too?).
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4) Implementation
** 7/18/09**
Costs:
- 10 year web hosting plan ($714)
- yearly domain registration ($9.95)
- flickr pro account per year ($24.95)
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3) Technical design document - how is it suppose to work?
** 7/18/09**
Modular. Can take feeds from different content systems(?). Take feed from blogger, tumblr, and flickr. Most likely using PHP. Support content search and searchable tags (external tags too?).
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** 7/21/09 **
Use PHP/Apache/MySQL. Ajax in the future? May have to import content from various sources and centralize. Can post out from centralized content to other sites - namely tumblr, facebook, blogger, twitter.
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**9/13/09**
Look into how to get a good search into just the contents. I would imagine it to be easier if I keep all the blog contents on blogger. How about tagging? Need to centralize all blogs into one single one. All blogger pages, xanga, and livejournal. Will need to cut and past the two latter. All the blogger pages can be export and import into one.
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**9/13/09**
Look into how to get a good search into just the contents. I would imagine it to be easier if I keep all the blog contents on blogger. How about tagging? Need to centralize all blogs into one single one. All blogger pages, xanga, and livejournal. Will need to cut and past the two latter. All the blogger pages can be export and import into one.
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4) Implementation
** 7/18/09**
Costs:
- 10 year web hosting plan ($714)
- yearly domain registration ($9.95)
- flickr pro account per year ($24.95)
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** 7/20/09**
Gear:
- 13 inch mac book pro + accessories + software - iLife, Apature, ? (<$3000?)
- backup drive (<$150?)
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** 7/21/09 **
MacBook Pro 13", Aperture 2, iLife '09, Final Cut Express 4.0, 500GB WD Passport - about $1644.01
BBEdit $125
Trying to keep it simple.
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This is an on-going project.
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