[Bf-webcontent] Re: Webcontent mailing list: the stuff I missed

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi Glen,

there were two messages so far; one of them was mine ;-)

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For your information. I have asked Glen to work with us to improve the 
integration into the website. For example, I don't like the fact that 
we now have a 'tutorials' and a 'video tutorials' section - they're 
both tutorials. Also, we should try to have a more consistent layout.

But those are just details - the content is pretty darn cool !

Bart
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I didn't notice the video tuts until recently, but if I knew who 
maintained them we could integrate them into the main tutorials section 
I think.

-Compman

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There are two issues with how the sections are now set up:

1) the new section is hard to find for users; the link 'tutorials' on 
the homepage of blender3d.org does not show video tutorials.

2) the two layouts are inconsistent, which is confusing on a 
subconscious level for users because they both deal with tutorials 
(albeit different kinds of tutorials) so you would 'expect' them to 
look the same.

I think that what we should do is integrate the two sections; as a 
suggestion to this group, this could be done in the following way:

1) first, simply add the video tutorials to the existing tutorial 
categories, but label them as 'video' as well. Our tutorial archiving 
system supports this. In this way, you could get, say, a modeling 
tutorial section with subsections beginner, intermediate, advanced and 
video.

2) add a separate tutorial subsection that lists all the video 
tutorials. this page would have sub sections for all the regular 
tutorial categories: modeling, animation, materials etc.

What do other people think about this?

Bart



Op 11-nov-04 om 10:15 heeft Glen Moyes het volgende geschreven:

> I can finally go to bed now that I've updated everything that I need 
> to (those BitTorrent files are up).
>
> Could you forward me those e-mails on the mailing list about the video 
> tutorial site? Thanks.
>
> - Glen
>
> !DSPAM:4193372c135631475658684!