What I’ve just seen is pretty hard to describe. Stefan Sagmeister the famous Austrian graphic designer responsible for many famous record sleaves and published pieces, talks about happiness - It’s influence on design, how it is communicated through design and generally how it effects his work.
It’s slightly odd, but worth a watch! (video below)
Seeing as everyone seems to be a bit shy I’ll create our first proper blog entry.
Tonight the Interactive team will be donning their best suits and frocks and attending The Big Chip Awards - The digital industry awards for the North West.
Our website for Britannia living has been nominated in the “Best Commercial Website” category.
We (the interactive team) have setup and designed this blog template based on the Wordpress blogging engine. It allows you to Login under various usernames (which you will be setup) and enter blog posts/entries.
We intend to categorise posts under the main business areas that we operate in, and should any others arise, add them also. (see the category list under the heading of this post)
Users on our blog will be able to:
View posts:
by a certain category
in chronological order (set by default)
by monthly entries
Use the search box to search for terms within the whole blog.
Monitor the blog with RSS feeds.
Leave comments on posts.
Visit our friends’ websites/blogs.
You will be able to add images, links, videos (youtube and otherwise) into each post. You can also style the content using a WYSIWYG editor, much like you do in MS word.
You can make type Bold, or italic. Maybe add a strike-through?
You can right align text
Centre text
But probably best leave it like this!
There
are
bullets
like
this
Or
ordered
bullets
like
this
It even has a spell-checker! So no excuses…
It’s very easy, I promise. And before too long you’ll be a fully-fledged blogger!
Over time we will be adding more and more features to our blog, we could add a photo gallery for example.
The design is intended to be quite simple, so that the content we create jumps from the screen. The elements such as icons and menu bars are intended to be second nature to users, but should you have any usability suggestions, just let us know.
Regular users will also have the ability to syndicate our blog using RSS technology. It is currently set up to monitor blog entries and also blog comments.
You will also see that we have added a blogroll, which is simply a list of links to our friends. Of course set by default we have; Hasgrove, The Chase and Interel. Please add more if you see fit.
One semi-useless gimmick that is pretty funky, is the draggable menus on the right hand-side, which allow you to prioritise the order of the menus. When returning to the blog, this order will be saved (using a setting file called a cookie). Cool heh?
Anyway, there are plenty more in depth features that the Wordpress engine has. So if you have any further questions, just shout!
P.S. If you’re wondering why the date for this post says Sep 5th, that’s because it has taken this long to write the first post!
We intend to categorise posts under the main business areas that we operate in, and should any others arise, add them also. (see the category list under the heading of this post)