I recently wrote an article for code4lib journal. The article is called
WordPress as a Content Management System for a Library Web Site: How to Create a Dynamically Generated Subject Guide. It features my Ulysses WordPress theme as an example of how to use WordPress to create library Subject Guides. The technique in the article could really be used for many other purposes. Another way I use this technique is to create a magazine-style WordPress theme. If you have any other ideas/purposes for this technique, please comment on this post. I would love to hear your thoughts. Also, please Digg the article if you enjoy it, or add it to your del.icio.us bookmarks.
Abstract:
This article explains a method of generating dynamic subject guides through the WordPress content management system. This method includes the use of the Exec-PHP WordPress plugin and additional PHP code to create a new category-based loop within the preexisting WordPress loop. Example code and screenshots are provided.
WordPress as a Content Management System for a Library Web Site: How to Create a Dynamically Generated Subject Guide
I have updated my portfolio with two new Web sites that I have created.
Open Bible Community Church
Roadkill Zen
Please take a look at the sites and let me know what you think.
I have recently updated my portfolio. Please take a look at it. The newest addition is the Rocky Top Soccer Camp Web site. It sports some vibrant oranges in the spirit of Knoxvillian Rocky Top pride.
I also updated the About page on the site. Check it out if you would like to know a little bit more about me, Joshua Dodson, and Dodson Design, my freelance web design business.
Please take a look at my new, free WordPress theme, Ulysses. I will post more soon about how to set up dynamic subject guides by using this theme, but you do not need to use subject guides to enjoy it. It is a bookish theme intended for libraries, writers, and book-lovers.
See a demo or download the theme now.
Enjoy and please let me know what you think!
I have been doing a bit of house cleaning lately. The site is now redesigned. I may add a thing or two… but I wanted a cleaner feel to it. I also want to add a bit more emphasis on my portfolio, which I will be adding more screenshots of.
As a side note, I am in the process of starting an online poetry workshop. This will be completely free to join. The idea behind it is mutual critique of each member’s poetry. It is designed to be a six-week workshop with one prompt a week. After the prompt is given, each member will have about three to four days to write a poem based on the prompt and post it to the workshop. The three days following will consist of reading, digesting, and critiquing everyone else’s poetry. This will go on for six weeks. During the six weeks I hope that everyone will have enough of an opportunity to put together a small collection of poetry to present as an ebook or e-chapbook. I will then host the ebooks for free. I may add a small zine featuring everyone’s best poem at the end of the workshop.
Some of the details are still to be decided upon, but this is the idea. The site is not ready to go yet, but please go and sign up for the mailing list/RSS feed for updates on when it is ready to go. The workshop will be called Sentient Writing.
With that I plan to devote this web site to mostly web design-related topics and my web portfolio. I will be moving my writing tips and information to Sentient Writing. I hope that you will enjoy both sites. The concept behind Fragmentist is to find connections in various aspects of the world, so I am certain that topics (of any nature) can never be fully separated.
Please take a look at some of my web designs as I add my portfolio to the site. I am also available for web design and WordPress theming. Please contact me at fragmentist@gmail.com for more information.
I know that it has been a little while since I have posted last. I have been working on putting together a free eBook of my second collection of poetry, Sentience with Kinesthesia. I won’t guarantee that this will always be here for free, but it is for now.
I also have an audio version of Sentience with Kinesthesia that I plan on releasing in the near future. The audio version has musical accompaniment and binaural beats for brain entrainment… sounds scary, but it is actually intended to heighten senses and creativity. The binaural beats that accompany the poetry are at a Theta level, which is associated with the brain activity levels of meditating monks, for instance. It is really an interesting experience. I will post more about it here later on.
For now, please enjoy the eBook of Sentience with Kinesthesia. I also love feedback, so please comment if you have any thoughts about the work. Send any poetry lovers here to download their free copy as well. Enjoy!
Download a free copy of Sentience with Kinesthesia eBook.
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