Blog design and strategy

I have written nearly 40 blogs without any thoughts. I look back at the blogs from the beginning, and I’m a little messy. During this period, I learned a lot of writing skills and blog design, so I found my own style. WordPress is a platform that makes it easy for people to create their own websites, with simple operations and different themes for users, so they can place their websites in a style that is full of their own.

First of all, I think that the front page of the website should attract readers’ attention. I changed my background and used the flowers I took during my trip to Japan as a background. Although the pattern of the flowers is dazzling, the background color of the article is white, which highlights the report. The whole theme of the website is using white, red, beige, and black.

Followed by the font of the article, I chose to use Karla. This font is the same as the content and is a font that is hard to read. I also use italics to distinguish titles.

Third, the menu is essential. People can easily search for articles through the list and classify all blogs into topic categories. I categorize items of different themes together to let people can read easily. I also add some hashtags on each blog to make people more convenient.

Finally, I added a link to my contact and personal account. People can leave their opinions and get my information in other ways. Although I am not good at blog design, I hope my blog can readable to everyone. WordPress really provide lots of themes, and the personalized choice makes me surprised. You can make your own choice on every decision. That’s a great experience!

After completing the layout and design of the blog site, in order to enhance the attraction of my article, I added a picture and a theme tag to each article. The image can attract the reader’s first look, and can also explain the content of the article through the picture so that readers can have a better understanding when reading my blog. Adding tags allows readers to clearly understand the topic of the article and attract more readers to access my articles.

Designing a personal blog site is not easy, but after understanding and standing in the audience’s position, it is easier to redesign my blog. I changed from a messy blog to more orderly typesetting, and I feel a sense of accomplishment. I hope that the redesigned blog will make it easy for readers to read!

An examining the attention capacity short task

 

 

 

In this week, I watch a YouTube video about the attention capacity. The video is about a magician showing a magic trick. Using five $1 turns into five $100. After that, the video shows us what happened. When I was performing a little trick about money, it was actually changing elsewhere, and I didn’t notice it at all. It turns out that the magic trick is to attract our attention. What really changed is the thing behind the magician. When the lens is close to the magician, the set behind the back is replaced, and when the lens moves again, the magic table is replaced with a black chair, and even the hat on the magician’s head is changed from black to brown. I haven’t noticed these things because I have always focused on the performances of the magician.

This video is fascinating and surprising to me. I admit that I was controlled by the magic trick, and I have not found any change. After I reread the video, I can really know where I changed. I tested this video to my family. I told them that this was a small test of attention, then played the video and asked them what changed. The answer I got made me unexpected. My parents responded without change, and the younger brother returned that the magician’s hat was altered. This test is exciting, and people can test their attention.

Before, I have seen some prank video to change characters when others are not paying attention, to test the way people have found their changes. I think that the type of film makes me pay more attention to the things around me, and I will not only pay attention to the subject.

I don’t know if you have seen this type of video, and quickly share it with your friends to see if they have noticed any changes!

-Silva

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From private media to public media

I took a journey through Telford Plaza and connected MTR, and I saw much general information display and media services. There are many electrical stores in Telford Plaza, and TV and big screens provide information to attract passers-by. When the TV broadcasts left news and movies, people who walk around the mall will stop watching their phone and take a look.

I remember one time I was impressed. A group of people stood in front of the electronics store and blocked the TV screens that attracted them. I am curious about what they are watching. I took a period of observation, it was playing the climax moment of the film, people are very focused. Because the movie only plays a short paragraph, the crowd quickly dissipates. I also found that when people watched, some people used their mobile phones to take a quick shot and posted it to the community or the media. Some people used mobile phones to search for movie clips online.

Today, everyone gets information on their mobile phones every day. Read news, send messages, search for content, watch videos, etc. on their mobile devices. People like to use their mobile phones at bow down. This is a personal way to search for information from the public. People in front of the electronics store are brought to their mobile phones by the media in society, which is very interesting.

For me,  I am one of the Hong Kong people, which is always focused on the mobile phone. After this observation, I also found that I would inadvertently share the things I saw on the mobile phone to my friends. 

Cinema

All the people love watching movies, but the place might be changed from cinema to our home. Irreplaceable that cinema was providing the newest and memorable experience. 

I remember that when I was a child from a weekend, my family activities must be watching movies, so I asked my dad about going to the cinema experience. My dad likes to watch movies in the war category and hero category. He remembers that the experience of watching a movie was exciting. At that time, he and mother took my sibling and me to the cinema near the home. Because there is only one cinema relatively close to the house, the other one need takes half an hour.

Moreover, this cinema is not chain operated. There are only four theaters that can accommodate around 100people, and the management personnel only have tickets seller, ticket inspector, and usher. My sibling and I wanted to watch a horror film, which is called “House of Wax,” but Dad wanted to see a war movie that we were interested in. The result was that Dad decided to hand us over to my mother and went to see the war film alone. We followed my mother to watch a horror film. After Dad completed the war film, he also sneaked to our theater to accompany us. 

I also have some impressions of my father’s experience. In my perception, there is only the content of the movie and the experience of being dazed by my father. Because I like to watch quietly, I do not wish to watch and discuss the plot. Almost until the end of the movie, when the plot was very tight, Dad walked in and took a shot of my shoulder. I was scared to scream, but fortunately, it was a shocking moment, and all the theaters were screaming because of the movie. This time I am really impressed.

Audiences, Interviewees & Collaborative Media Ethnography

According to Fetterman (1998), the term “ethnography” can be defined as an activity that records people’s daily lives and explores the cultural characteristics of the group. Simply put, through questions and feedback, communication becomes a deeper understanding of each other’s views.

Last week, I interviewed the TV memories of classmate Jennifer. I thought it was because, in the same era, each other’s minds would be the same or very similar. Exciting things, the background between us is different, and the memories have changed. By talking about heaven, I knew that Jennifer’s mother used to be an actor. This is different for me and Jennifer’s feelings about watching TV in childhood. For me, the sense of watching TV in childhood is the time of entertainment. On the contrary, Jennifer’s feeling is that her mother is a person who has the opportunity to appear on television. This is the difference between the public and the ordinary. Face-to-face interaction, we can feel their views from the other side’s expressions and limbs. For example, when Jennifer tried to describe the appearance of television in her childhood, she would use the size and shape of the TV. This is easier to understand the story.

In fact, I tried the automatic demographic study in the last semester, but only observed the reaction of the interviewed people. This research has deepened the opinions and feelings of the respondents, let me know more about other people’s culture, and the whole study is fascinating and meaningful.

Internet is changing practices and spaces

Everyone knows that the changes in the Internet are becoming more and more gradual, from the previous wired Internet to the wifi. It provides people with more convenient communication and more information knowledge. This is like changing practices and space as we grew up.

I talked to my classmate, Adam, about the culture of the Internet. I didn’t expect us to have a similar experience. We all have siblings. When we were young, there was only one computer in the house, so we needed to use it together. At that time, there was no widespread use of mobile phones to access the Internet. Because the cost of mobile data is prohibitive, it relies on computers to access the Internet. I remember that when I knew how to use a computer in elementary school, I was most expecting computer classes and going home to do online homework every day. The reason is that there is an excuse to play the computer. After completing the homework quickly, go to MSN to chat with friends or play games on the Internet are our other entertainment than TV. Playing online games with siblings is the most profound. Street fighter is a game we most like and remember. We used our home phone to chat with friends when we didn’t have our own mobile phone before. Going online at home to continue the conversation at the school, this is the Internet happiness in primary school. From the emergence of MSN, the revolution of text message began, and now everyone uses the message to communicate.

Over time, computers to smartphones have completely changed the use of the Internet. Nowadays people have their own mobile phones that can be connected to the Internet without restrictions. Regardless of age, time, location, people are very focused on their mobile phones. The Internet has become a part of me and Adam’s daily life.

TV memories

The big black box, the colorful picture, the buttons are all below, this is my impression of the television.

Television should be the most intense memories for childhood because nowadays people can do anything on the smartphone. TV memories of childhood should be only cartoons for all children, also Jennifer. Jennifer was my classmate. When she was a child, she lived in the home of Lam Tin with her parents and sister. Jennifer’s mother is an actor, so there are two TVs in the house, in the parents’ room and the living room. The TV in the living room became the most significant entertainment for Jennifer and sister. The TV sets in the home are placed in their own location – the TV cabinet. There is a TV in the center of the cabinet, surrounded by a variety of CD and DVD. Because there is no TV time limit for Jennifer, she can watch TV anytime. Jennifer likes to sit on the very side of the sofa with her sister and watch the memories of the 90s – Doraemon. In the cartoon advertising time, Jennifer will go to have a bath, because the advertising time for children is very long.

After talking with Jennifer, I found that she and my memories of childhood TV are very similar, perhaps because we are about the same age. Throughout the conversation, it seems to return to the joy of childhood, listening to her description will evoke memories of my childhood. In addition to the same childhood memories, Jennifer’s mother also attracted me. She once mentioned that there are two TVs in the house because the mother is an actor’s profession and likes watching TV to watching other actors.

At present, we rarely have memories of TV, and TV is no longer the only entertainment. But in the past,  TV was a memory of the family, and it was a daily activity for the whole family.