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mrMagenta -> RE: New stuff (Oct. 8 2007 22:55:21)
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I've only had a quick glance so far. The material looks great, but it's really tricky to get to it. I think you should consider making the webpage entirely css+xhtml based. It would make everything much smoother, and manageable imho. As it is, the whole site is quite heavy to load, and it's difficult to save links.. (the videofiles are large, they need to be saved properly). And also, the scrolling mechanism on the lessons page didn't work for me so i had to make a big selection box to scroll down (i am a 3 button purist, no scroll wheel).
There are some unwritten laws that need to be respected so people aren't put off. Not resizing the active browser is one. Another one is: no popups. I had to wrestle my popup blocker to download the rasgueado video. Flash/SWF is alright, but still.. less is more imo. sorry, if this comes across harsh, i think your work on teaching material is great and you could be up to something really great with this site. it just deserves to be presented in a user friendly way. and think about scalability.. the present format doesn't scale too well, it will quickly become cumbersome when you feel like adding more content.
lightweight design can be really beautiful you know. gif is a perfect format for non photographic graphics, png is lovely for the more important/photographic pictures, css and xhtml combination can be flashy too and there's dreamweaver and other tools to aid developing it. even oldschool pure html can go a long way.
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