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Navigation: Search Function

The last navigation-methods page takes the bare foundations of the new interface to incorporate a search field that dynamically returns all matching results in a chronologically listed index. Be sure to give it a try!

Search Input:

Search Results:

All index-pages are now situated under the container page “navigation” and are directly accessible through the top javascript menus, so make best use of them.

Navigation: Context Tags

The third navigation page uses an adaption of the other pages’ interface to display all post tags divided into categories naming the type of context-placement they belong to.

Hover the tag-name to view a brief explanation and click it to show its postlist.

Skill Tags: dispersing between fabrication and knowledge fields
Line Tags: dispersing between the separate clothing lines
Contains: primary, secondary
Style Tags: dispersing between sub-genres of Gothic fashion
Treasure Tags: dispersing between various kinds of treasure
WGT Tags: dispersing between different days of the WGT

Due to the growing nature of this blog, not all tags are ideally distributed yet. Some further changes may also take place within the Style Tags, a classification method I find utterly difficult to manage.

Navigation: Post Categories

Liking my layout for the chapters-interface so much, I opted to adapt the design for a second navigation page, listing all posts ordered per category this time, taking unused pictures as representative thumbnails.

Exhibits: Full outfit illustration, accompanied by a clarifying total-outlook description incorporating composition analyses.
Exhibits: Directing sight onto a single completed garment, carefully photographed to display its principle characteristics.
Exhibits: Visualized reporting of recently undertaken ventures into procuring materials and resources fundamental to the work.
Exhibits: Highlighting specific steps from the construction process deemed noteworthy due to their technique-elaborative nature.
Exhibits: Individual design breakdown featuring in-depth construction stratagem formulated around comprehensively detailed drawings.
Exhibits: Displaying photographed valuables, uniquely begotten or especially requested from manufacturers within the Goth scene.
Exhibits: Contemplating the motivations behind the work, textually rationalizing choice direction and general preponderance.
Exhibits: Recollecting personal memories or impressions affiliated with a specific day in history, presented in video-graphic format.
Exhibits: Sharing craftwork patterns exhibiting couture techniques in documenting each step from the construction process.
 

May this perhaps be a fitting opportunity to revisit some of those older gems of posts!

Navigation: Blog Chapters

When first visiting this blog, it may seem a little overwhelming, which is why I decided to implement a number of content-indexing pages that contain lists of posts exemplifying the variety of navigational methods this platform has to offer.

The first of these pages displays all posts submitted to this blog, chronologically ordered into chapters which are periods of time gracing a continuous construction purpose, often leading up to an important event.

Concerns: starting of the blog, managing resources, planning the WGT, conceptualising outfits, buying materials, getting to know the WordPress platform.
Concerns: expanding into social media, garment fabrication analyses, progress documentation showing key steps of selected works, recalling previous attendances
Concerns: establishing post-WGT objectives, re-channeling work towards summertime gatherings, further developing the blog platform, sharing WGT experiences
 

As you can see, the first chapter engulfs the starting of this blog as well as the preliminary work for 2011′s WGT outfits, where the second captures most of the in-depth construction of those WGT outfits, while the third keeps track of the currently ongoing period leading up to the next big thing I will undertake.

Contact Page and Stylistic Updates

Still sorting through many a correspondence generated from the Wave Gotik Treffen festival, while trying to plan further summer activities, I concocted a sleek Contact Page to elegantly replace the previous message system. The new module is set up to open communication channels through a friendly front within the blog interface, adjusting to the individual’s inclinations.

Other performed adaptions mostly involved stylistic modifications to the trusted z-bench theme, going from highlighting post categories on the main and search index pages to more engaging fonts and a new, properly contemplated, navigation system.

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