Setting up the Journal

It is my hope with this project that it can be something that feeds into the development of my own self initiated work, as well as be something that can integrate and be referenced in my teaching. With that in mind documenting the project in an indesign or word document as I have on previous units will make the project hard to access and reference easily. Also with part of the project being the creation of a website, a self hosted journal in the form of a blog that runs alongside it makes sense. With the journal being written in a blog format there are somethings that I plan to do in order to make it easier to make use of after the hand in, namely that where possible references will be linked directly in the post as well as listed at the bottom of each post.

one.com hosting control panel for the newly set up oddfoundry.com domain and hosting.

I registered oddfoundry.com via the one.com hosting site (one.com 2021) and set up a WordPress installation for the main site as well as a sub site for the blog (that you are reading now) on blog.oddfoundry.com. The benefit of this is that hopefully when I am on site in the print room creating prints, I’ll be able to access the blog directly from my phone and document the process directly from there.

On the main oddfoundry.com site I put up a holding page and linked to it from the Instagram account that I had previously set up in the Digital Media unit with the same name.

After discussing how a digital journal would be submitted at the end of the unit with the rest of the class I have undertaken some research into the best way to download a WordPress blog. It is possible to download a website on a page by page basis but with my journal being multiple pages this isn’t ideal, thankfully I have found a plugin called Print My Blog (Nelson 2021) which can be installed on a WordPress site and then used to download a complete website as one large, multi page pdf.

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