DEBORAH'S DESCRIPTION OF MAJOR PROJECT: WordPress.org blog

WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF MAJOR PROJECT:

My writing practice (passion) is a living, evolving phenomenological exploration of conscious existence through experience on and off the page. However having a blog has eluded me for a long time. My personal Blogger blog is the closest I have come—it is a good start but I want a “sexier” interface that offers more rhetorical choices than Blogger. Therefore I am dedicating my major project to designing and developing a WordPress. org blog.


PURPOSE:
My WordPress.org blog:
a platform to share and distribute-
my published narratives-
gain visibility-
engage with other writers and readers -
to form a community &
create a space for discourse:
books, literary critique, rhetoric-
writing, publishing-
politics, popular culture-
music, dance, visual art

AUDIENCE:
My first impulse for creating a blog is to distribute
my published narratives among family, friends, and attract a
larger audience of other writers,
agents, editors, publishers and readers interested in
alternative/experimental narratives (lyric essay, metafiction)

TOOLS:
Blog publishing is a cost effective tool
to reach larger audience and to form a community
I chose WordPress.org
to develop and maintain my blog.
WordPress.org offers more rhetorical
choices than other blogger are more
malleable to my concept

RHECTORICAL CHOICES:
An animated step-by-step tutorial using
my personal experience with joining, designing,
and posting to my WordPress.org
Animation tools: image, sound
(music and voice recording)
and screenshots made into a video
on iMovie using tools discovered
(mine and others class participants)
in researching interactive authoring tools on the Web


Animation Script Proposal (first draft)
Followed WordPress for Dummies
Domain names—had .com purchased the handful of associated usernames at a nominal
Purchased Web hosting from Netfirms.com
Read “Dummies” instructions but missed something about the MySQL database—I called the very friendly support at Netfirms and was walked through the process that works like this:
Choose extension to user name-- .org instead of .com as association with an organization that better represents my personal bias rather than a company
Netfirms Control panel applications
Chose WordPress.org
Waited for a username & email to access my WordPress. org account to replace my
WordPress.com account that does not give the flexibility I am looking for.
What I found interesting—fortunately I read the download instructions on the WordPress.org website before clicking the download button—tech support advised- I will be going through Netfirms to access my WordPress.org account.
Searched HTML to find code that would make my backup folder public with the help of “find” to isolate .htaccess file from wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager after a pretty through search I did not find .htaccess tagged with strong
simply definitions for abbreviations—MySQL (etc) advice on software tools—HTML editors—(etc)
Animation: forms of communication letters etc