Adventuers in wordpress and philosphy

My proposal for this project was to create a blog about issues in out modern society with a philosophical perspective.

So for these past four weeks or so i have embarked on two . First being to delve into the intricate inter workings of one of the most prevalent content management systems, wordpress. The second, coming up with interesting, engaging and of course philosophical content.

Wordpress seems to be the the new hotness on the streets and if you don't have you site or blog running on it your were a total noob. So i decided i might see what all the hoopla was and get my hands dirty. Thinking I might be over my head, wordpress is amazingly easy to install and manage not to mention designing something that doesn't look like a caned blog is surprising easy. With some HTML, CSS with a dash of php know how you to can build atop this solid back end. So with the framework out of the way it was time for the content.

So the whole premise of this blog was to reflect on less publicized but non the less important issues in our modern society, with a philosophical inspiration. This has been proving to be the biggest hurdle because finding the issues that I personally feel people should be aware of in there own life's may be commonsense and not so philosophical. I know that it will all be open to interpretation, so i hope it might inspire some good conversation. If not o well, i like it.

User Persona

Socrates believed that anyone was capable of formulating logical options and you could have a philosophical discussion just about anywhere. However if i must choose a specific person that visits my site it would be this guy.

Name: James Gates
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Occupation: Political analyst
James Enjoys philosophical discussions between his closes friends (of course). When he is not busy with work he enjoys going to hear his favorite poets speak and sketching still life scenery in love park.

Exploratorium Field Trip

The Exploratorium offers many exhibits that allow visors to explore science and the human perception. Visitors can learn on diffrent levels how things work and why they work the way they do. Some of the exhibits demistnrates how what we see is subjective and everybody precives the world diffrently.

Light carries information that helps our eyes and brians construct the world around us. So when someone were to find somthing entertaining or somthing to occupy their mind its really just light being transferd into shapes,object and images that they find appeiling. So to create a design that would be engageing it would have to be attractive to what certian users precvie to be enterntinating for their reality.

A effective design has to delve into the reptialian being in the user and do the thinking for a nich target audince. It would have to catert to their need like a mother cares for its child telling them "everything is going to be ok", as long as your using my product.

Interaction Design for Entertainment

Entertainment or the agreeable occupation of the mind has many different variations and can take many different forms. In this class we discuss what keep a person engaged and interacting with one piece of the internet. This to can also have many different variations and come in many different forms depending on the target audience and the particular type of content conveyed. Since there are so many differentiations of what people might find entertaining on the internet leads one to believe that entertainment will always be left open to interpretation and objectification.

I feel that what a person might find on the internet as entertaining can be broken down into two simple categories. The first being substance i.e information or content and the second would be aesthetic. Having good substance or a wealth of information will most likely keep and use engaged, even if for only a quick dose of knowledge, they will undoubtedly be back for more. That is why google and wikipedia attract millions of users, not for their trendy design but for the subsatnce they provide.

Bike

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Chefzilla

This is the design i did for the final project in intermediate web design. Some feedback would be nice.respect.

Gummo

If someone were to make a movie about my life, the viewers might find what I find normal to be abnormal. I hope you agree.