online multimedia tools/scripts/generators directory sorta thing...

supafunk · 2006-08-06 21:42:23

I haven’t replaced my old nucleus-built blog at the default address yet, but I think this new (textpattern) site is nearly ready so I thought I’d see what you guys think… and would like to hear any criticisms, suggestions, ideas, errors, problems etc.

http://index.publishmedia.info/find/

The site doesn’t actually validate for now :( because of a few gimmicks which were used and I’m hoping to add a bit for functionality in the near future.

Cheers
Tom

Last edited by supafunk (2006-08-06 21:47:37)

Walker · 2006-08-06 21:54:12

I like the idea, some items:

It’s weighted a little too heavily left-wards.
The paragraph about what publishingmedia.info is could be cleaned up and needs to be much less wide.
Be careful about calling it pMedia unless you want that name to stick (is that an alternate URL, maybe?)
When the flyout menu is over sometthing on the page, there’s not always enough distinction (especially when the item it’s over is the same alternating colors as the flyout menu itself)
In general, I think the fluid layout lets the paragraphs get to wide to be really readable on larger monitors. Be careful about this one. Who is your audience? What resolution should you be aiming for? Can you offer fluid v. fixed-width?
The main page needs to do a better job of communicating uses for this site. (Maybe if you fixed crit number 2, of mine, that would be enough to deal with this)
On page like this one where you list all sub-categories and items, there needs to be more vision separation on those lists, than just the indentation now present.

It’s an excellent resource/idea, work on the communication of that idea, now.

supafunk · 2006-08-06 23:11:28

Walker, cheers for the reply – you certainly gave me lot of things to think about and play about with.

With regards to point 3, I find it so useful to have site nickname like pMedia (publishmedia or publishmedia.info seems a bit drawn out sometimes) – I would hope it to stick, registering an alternate domain might be an idea… or do you think I should get rid?

Point 5 has been a thinking point for me recently. I don’t actually know what sort of screen resolution my current audience most commonly uses – I’m going to run a browser size tracking script for a while to find out. The site has generally been designed with larger screens or at least wider screens in mind and I do prefer liquid layouts but it would be easy to limit the width of the pages – I could offer a user choice I suppose.

About communication, I definitely want to improve the language used to explain what publishmedia is all about. I find it so difficult just to explain to people what the site is about.

Thanks again for your help.

hcgtv · 2006-08-06 23:34:53

Tom,

I’m curious, what made you go from Nucleus to Textpattern?

nardo · 2006-08-07 00:01:58

I like the content !

alexandra · 2006-08-07 07:30:02

Walker put a very good list together, me thinks. I would like to add that font-size is very small in my Opera.

Great is: the navigation list on the left is working perfectly for me. (That is often not the case in Opera).

Citing Walker again: an excellent resource idea ..

supafunk · 2006-08-07 14:08:21

Cheers for the support people.

alexandra: It did take me a while to get the navigation menu working cross-browser although IE proved to be the most difficult. I’ve developed / tested the site using Opera 9 Beta, MSIE 6 and Firefox 1.5.0.6, all on Windows XP. [If anyone’s using anything else I’d love to know how the site looks to you…] Also when you talk about the font size, do you mean on the frontpage/navigation bar or in the articles as well?

hgctv: I first setup this website because I myself was in the process of building a multimedia community-based website and after scouring the web and then trawling through hundreds of “resources” I thought some others might be interested in bypassing the “scouring” stage. So quick-snap I set up the blog you currently see at publsihmedia.info. I never knew much about Nucleus except that it had all the functionality I needed for a standard blog setup and it was fast and easy to input entries. I found the formatting toolbar for article entry really increased the speed I was able to input stuff, usually I just leave buttons like that alone. I never attempted a Nucleus template or had much of a look at the Nucleus plugins I don’t think, maybe one for counting the number of articles in a category or something.

The site got a bit larger and a few more visitors, so I got it a domain name and had an idea I might make it into a proper (non-blog) website :) It’s taken me a while though.

I moved to Textpattern because I had just finished creating futuretunes.net with the CMS and felt I was getting to know it’s tags and the way it works. I like the textpattern tags, coding is so quick and easy; the plugins are numerous and useful/easy to play about with; and I like the way Textpattern is stuctured – into articles and forms and being able to put js in the css part, etc.

I also find it super-flexible – I hardly ever have to leave the txp control panel. The TextBook site is wonderful too, I only found the FAQ the other day though :) I’ll have to look into that…

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