Creative-Resonance

Creative-Resonance is intending to become a leading online resource for the area of user experience, providing both unqiue content and links to the best resources online.

The Creative-Resonance site is developed as an extension to Wordpress, a leading blogging application, to provide a content managed site and blog hybrid. As much of the static content is aimed at providing best practice, advice and resources the concept is to bring the immediacy and social input aspect that is common with blogging whilst maintaining content structure overtime.

This is an on-going project by Richard Marsh (see About the C-R creator - Richard Marsh) which started at the start of 2006 and is already starting to shape up.

The Technologies that are behind the Creative-Resonance site are;

• WordPress
• PHP5
• MySql
• Apache
• Windows

Contextual options on the right hand side: At the moment the sidebar is only dynamic not contextual, i.e. it has no awareness of the section you are in so by consequence you are presented all options and navigation. As the options and content increase this will not provide an elegant or scalable solution to the user experience. By adding context to the sidebar it will only show relevant options and navigation which will solve this moving forward.

Peer to Peer data sharing: I have been planning a WordPress plugin which allows you to add ANY content items to a C-R “data distribuition pot” where you will be able to choose who and how you get either the data to your peers or your peers to the data.

The “pot” will be able to be syndicated via RSS or by providing a link back to the “pot”. The concept behind this is allow to the power of real people who know you to help sift data and keep it specific to your interest, truly Intelligent Agents hopefully

Listed below are features that have been implemented on the C-R site.

• C-R Site to provide both Structured Content & Weblog Content, using Wordpress as blog and CMS
• C-R Structured Content to support User Commenting

The following information will help you to get the most out of the C-R sites features.

RSS
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help to think of them as the internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines.

RSS feeds have been used over the internet for many years and have really started to become popular in mainstream usage over the last 3 years. You can freely subscribe to many RSS feeds and it is easy to unsubscribed at any point, making it easier for you to stay on top of the information most important to you.

To use RSS Feeds you will need a new Reader. Below are some simple choices for News Readers.

RSS NEWS READERS

Browser
Mozilla Firefox

Web
Bloglines
My Yahoo!
NewsGator

Windows
Newz Crawler
FeedDemon
Awasu

Mac OS X
Newsfire
NetNewsWire

These links are provided in good faith, and C-R takes no responsibility for the sites or applications referred to.