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The following guide may be useful for anyone wanting to get the best from our website application and content.

Application vs Content

We divide our site into application and content. Our "App" is the set of features we have implemented to allow content to be viewed in a novel way or request services from our server. The App version is shown at the bottom of every page and is incremented after additions and improvements.

Typically, web apps are written using additional languages to HTML. We employ CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and others to provide more dynamic capabilities. Some of these functions include search bars, interactive forms, and tool features.

Our content is all about our posts. These are our main portfolio subjects, the ones we are passionate about. The main connecting factor is they are all linked to poems and sounds.

Sitting just around our posts are our static pages. These serve to give the site structure and provide ancillary information like what we are up to and privacy policies etc. At the top and/or bottom of each page, you will find a set of handy tools.

All our pages and posts contain their last updated date at the bottom.

All our pages are responsive to the device they are rendering on and for every feature, we have developed there is an attribution link below the widget for further details.

See our Sitemap for all pages, posts, tags and categories navigation.

Theme

We use the Avada dark theme, for its functionality and responsiveness. Avada is expertly crafted and adheres to all industry standards.

The Avada Global Styling Options provides us with a plethora of tools to ensure that our site's layouts and elements are rendered pixel-perfect on all mobile devices.

The mobile visibility system is a particularly handy set of options that allows us to choose what to display on small, medium, and large screens.

Navigation

Website navigation allows our visitors to flow from one page to another without difficulty. If we have done our job well, you will leave our site with the intention to return.

You can find our main navigation menu appearing in the header section at the top of the page. This collapses to a hamburger menu for mobiles.

We also have footers, which often contain links to our site's main content, as well as popular resources. These "fat" footers allow for more links, which should mean a better user experience.

At the top of each page below the header, the page name tells you where you are. Then you can see which category that page belongs to, the part of the site in which it exists (blog), and "See also" links to navigate to other relevant content. Below this will be a ticker-tape giving a possibly uplifting quote. Click on this to refresh the quote. Turn these off in the User Preferences.

We use the hamburger menu within the header section for all mobile devices.

Our website navigation and hyperlinks aren't the same. We have links scattered on each page but are not part of our navigation structure. We mainly use tabs and buttons to show and hide different pieces of our content. These are all responsive to the type of device you are viewing from.

Another feature we have introduced for our posts is the concept of our "shelf". Here you can quickly navigate to a post or media item from any page.

The post shelf provides a list of the most recent POSOWOCO posts - select an item to jump to a specific post.
The music shelf provides a list of all POSOWOCO tracks - select an item to either play the audio or jump to a specific post if we have written about it.
The video shelf provides a list of all POSOWOCO videos - select an item to play the video.

Header

Our website header contains mainstream content navigation elements. It consists of the top cover and a navigation bar.

The top cover displays:

LOGO - go to our home page
SHELF - see our bookshelf pop-up
ASSIST - see our Web Assistant options
RADIO - see our radio station and play the live stream
COG - set your User Preferences
LANGUAGE - select the display language
SITE TITLE - PO SO WO CO - select a part of the title to navigate to that portfolio ('PO' = Poems portfolio) etc.

SHELF

Click on the SHELF button and you will see a pop-up of all our posts. They are arranged chronologically as books on a shelf. They have their featured image and their category as a front cover. Click on the book to access the POST.

ASSIST

Click on the ASSIST button and you will see a pop-up of all our popular assisted URLs. These are arranged as a list of actions. Click on one to act. The Web assistant is always monitoring every URL to see if it can further select items on the chosen page or post.

RADIO

Click on the RADIO button and you will be presented with a pop-up allowing you to listen to Radio POSOWOCO. From here you can see which track is playing. and select the play icon to stream the audio. Selecting the plus/minus button will show/hide the next few tracks.

COG (User Preferences)

Click on the COG icon and you will see a pop-up with all your User Preferences for the site. Changing an option will cause the page to reload and if your browser can store local options, the User Preferences will now be active. You can currently:

SHOW COMICS - Turn on/off comic themes on all pages
SHOW COMIC HEADERS - Turn on/off comic headers on all pages
SHOW COMIC SLIDES - Show comic slides on all pages instead of the full strip
SHOW AUDIO VISUALISATIONS - Turn on/off any audio visualisations
SHOW QUOTES - Turn on/off the quote ticker shown at the heading of all pages
COMIC STYLE - Change the default comic style
POEM STYLE - Change the default poem theme
COMIC COLOUR - Change the default comic header colour

LANGUAGE SELECTION

All our pages use google language translation and right-to-left friendly. Select the language from the drop-down list. Default is English.

Content

Our content consists of:

SLIDES - front page slides of all our images sometimes with animations
PAGES - static web pages describing us and our website
CONTENT - the cornerstone content of our 4 portfolios plus images
FEATURES - our media toolbar, galleries, book browser, media players, comics, analysis buttons, themes

SLIDES

Our slides consist of images from our media gallery. These slides are all black and white and are taken around multiple locations in the U.K where we are based. Sometimes the slides will have navigation buttons on them to let you go to a related page.

PAGES

Our pages represent the static content of our site. Each page is very different in content but all are headed by our slides and navigation pages. You can always go to our inline sitemap and navigate from there too.

POSTS

These are the main course of our website or our Cornerstone Content. We publish posts on our 4 portfolios where each post has different content but the same features e.g. Media Toolbar.

The posts are divided into standard posts for Poems, Sounds and Worlds and more varied layouts for our Correspondence posts.

See the features section below to get help on what's available.

FEATURES

Our web app features apply to any content or static pages. These are explained in sub-sections below.

We have:

Main Menu - static menu for all pages
Context Menu - dynamic menu for all pages
Media Toolbar - play media for the given post
Comic Strips - comic strip visualisations for our text
Instruction Button - specific page/post instructions where needed
Go Button - start/stop configured media for each post
Analysis - text analysis of the page in terms of words
Media players - playlist/cassette/turntable/Image
Views - a standard set of views augmenting the main content
Themes - static and animated background themes for our poems

Main Menu

Our main menu contains links to our main pages -

Home - landing page for our website
Play - our playful portfolios of poems, sounds, worlds and correspondence
Galleries - collections of all good stuff across the site
About - who are we?
More - more detailed articles on who we are, what we do and other notices

Context Menu

Our context menu is dependent on the page it is on but contains some common links -

Share - a share icon that will allow you to share the page to social media
Help - a question icon brings up this help page as a pop-up
Shelf - brings up our "shelf" as a pop-up
Social - brings up our social media contacts page as a pop-up
Chronicle - brings up your browsing history on our site for immediate favourite navigation - your history is not shared and can be cleared

Media Toolbar

Our media toolbar has at most the following buttons -

Sound - play a random sound effect, useful for setting the scene whilst reading a poem for example
Voice - play the text-to-speech voice recording of the featured poem
Music - play the music specifically written by us for the post, for the Sounds posts this will be the featured soundtrack
Drum - play a random drum rhythm, useful for setting the tempo whilst reading a poem for example
Rain - play a random storm sound, useful for meditation
Noise - play a random Binaural sound, useful for meditation
Morse - play the morse code of the featured poem - imagine being sent the poem over some tapped water pipes

If a button has a question mark icon on it, this will launch a pop-up showing more detail on the media being played. Clicking the Morse button, for example, will show the dots and dahs being sounded as each letter is transmitted.

If a button has a recycle mark icon on it, this will change the underlying media to another random selection enabling different SFX and music combinations

Just below the media toolbar is a collapse/expand button to hide/show the toolbar.

Comic Strips

Our comic strips provide an alternative visualisation for our content. By default, comic strips are turned off. You uncheck this on the user preference (COG) icon at the top of each page. The underlying text will now be shown instead of comics unless you select a strip inline.

There are several comic strip styles to chose from. These have been built on by us from our favourite JavaScript comic generator tools. Select the round links above the comic to change the layout and styles. The X link disables the comic for this page and session.

All of our comic strips have a question mark icon - use it to view the "raw" underlying text. The comic strip can be viewed as a slide. Click the Slid icon (camera) and you will be presented with each comic panel in the strip. You can advance to the next strip by clicking the slide or on the next/previous buttons on the control bar. A count is shown of the slide navigation state. The comic slides can be turned on by default in the User Preferences.

Instruction Button

For our correspondence posts, you can select the instruction button (the question mark icon) to show a pop-up page with what you can do specifically for this post.

Go Button

Select this link (the play icon) to start/stop configured media for each post. This may mean the poem being read out and some animation music playing in the background.

Analysis

Select the Analysis link to see analysis tables and graphics created from the current page - you can then find posts containing its top words (and select one to follow).

Media Players

Our media players aim to mimic old devices currently making a comeback:

Cassette - play audio using an old cassette player with all of its transport controls
Turntable - play audio using an old record player turntable complete with strobe to check the correct speed!
Image - play audio as though it were just a record sleeve
Radio - play audio using a radio interface (not yet implemented)

Our Media list player features a list of selectable media with a:

link to the media's Cloud presence e.g. SoundCloud/YouTube
link to any post the media features in
link for downloading where available
visualisation generated from the sound - this can be turned off/on in the User Preferences

Views

Within all non-correspondence posts, there are a standard set of views, navigable by selecting the view name above the post content. The default view will be the one best suited for the media. Standard Views are:

Poem - view the poem and select a theme to go with it
Music - listen to the audio content using our media players
Notes - read about the background to the content
Animation - our cartoon animations; the cartoon will be chosen from the tags on the Post e.g. Love, Life. There may be one or many cartoons to watch! Selecting the attribute button will display the animation script.

Themes

When viewing a poem you can change the background and style of the text. Select the button Chose Themes and try a few layouts. Reselect Chose Themes to close the selection.

Author

Author biography gives a brief background of the post/page author with any recent picture.

Footer

Our "fat" footer contains further information, opportunities and useful links.

We have:

Give Support on Ko-fi - helping artists and creative souls receive income from their supporters so they can keep creating amazing things.
Become a Patreon - become a patreon to support our site.
Subscribe - email sign-up to our monthly newsletters
Analysis - analyses the content's text
Print - print this page/post
Tag Cloud - all our current tags
Common Pages - all common page links
App Version - the application version number
Contact Details - our email address
Last Updated - the date this page/post was last updated
Copyright Notice - standard copyright notice for our content

Give Support on Ko-fi

Select this button to navigate to a Ko-fi sign-up page to support us.

Become a Patreon

Select this button to navigate to a Patreon sign-up page to support us.

Subscribe

Select the Subscribe link to subscribe to our monthly newsletters and new posts emails. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Platform Share

Share this page on your social media accounts. Click on the icon for the social media platform.

Analysis

Same as the analysis link above.

Print

Select the Print link to see a print-friendly version of the page which you can then print.

Tag Cloud

A Tag Cloud of labels to navigate to the same tagged posts.

Common Pages

A link to our portfolios, news, RSS, privacy and terms of service.

App Version

Shows our App version number. This is year/month/version based and updated almost daily as we develop our WebApp. Currently in Alpha testing.

Contact Details

Shows our main contact email address. Click on it to send an email.

Last Updated

Shows the time and date the page/post was updated. This indicates the freshness of the content.

Copyright Notice

Contains a standard copyright notice for our content and a link to our sister sites and main hosts.

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Radio

Non-commercial radio powered by Azuracast using the Apache license, version 2.0

Access our radio from these external sites

Playlist

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App

User Preferences

The following settings are available:

Show comics

Show comic headers

Show comic slides

Show audio visualisations

Show quotes

Comic style

Poem style

Comic colour

Confirmation

Message

Chronicle

Shelf

sound MMM Endless Album

MMM Endless Album

sound MMM Cruise Album

MMM Cruise Album

sound MMM Infinity Album

MMM Infinity Album

poem Where Would We Be

Where Would We Be

sound MMM Weekend Album

MMM Weekend Album

sound MMM East Album

world A Trip to a future City

A Trip to a future City

sound MASK My Town Album

MASK My Town Album

sound MASK 100 Lives Album

MASK 100 Lives Album

sound MMM Progress Album

MMM Progress Album

poem Away Bones

sound MMM Funk Album

poem If I Could Die Here

If I Could Die Here

sound MMM January Album

MMM January Album

world A lonely XMAS village world

A lonely XMAS village world

sound The Bungalow

poem Hard holiday

sound MMM Drone Album

MMM Drone Album

sound MMM Much Album

sound MMM Radio Album

MMM Radio Album

sound BAIB Streams Album

BAIB Streams Album

sound MASK 10 Parcels Album

MASK 10 Parcels Album

poem On the feeling of bliss

On the feeling of bliss

sound The Local Supermarket

The Local Supermarket

poem On The End Of Our Time

On The End Of Our Time

world A very special first fantasy map

A very special first fantasy map

poem On One Day at a Time

On One Day at a Time

sound The Mighty hot then cold desert

The Mighty hot then cold desert

poem On a Day of rains

On a Day of rains

sound The remarkable Uguisu

The remarkable Uguisu

Social Media

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