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Source link: http://archive.mises.org/10916/new-media-page-mockup-2/
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Wow, Jeff I love it! I think my only qualm would be that the page retains its robustness and the loading time doesn’t get too taxed, but besides that nice one.
Can’t wait to see the Salamanca lectures there.
Would it be a good idea if you allowed the blocks to collapse/expand?
Jeffrey,
It looks great! And in all these formats and torrents! I hope it doesn’t kill the LvMI’s budget.
Cheers
A query: how are the ‘Lectures and Seminars” section to be organized?
very nice! much better.
Video using <video> tag with fallback??
Much better, with the various feeds at the bottom of the page.
Is the Lew speech shown in that picture on the media page right now? I can’t seem to locate it.
Awesome, bracing, looks very easy to use. Any chance of tabbed browsing through the categories near the top of the page?
It’s too busy, with no center point to focus/guide the user. I must agree with Fephisto; if you insist on cluttering up the entire page with a luckluster approach to organizing your content, then by all means you must allow your users to collapse/hide the chaos. but then, I’m a minimalist who prefers functionality over form.
I presume all the media files will still be downloadable?
Huge improvement on the last mockup.
Give us a list of the top 20 authors by total content and replace the topic cloud by making the popular media section longer than 5 entries please. Or lose the authors area altogether and give us a list of the 10 latest additions to compliment the 10 most popular selections.
Two thumbs up!
Sean Malone: In the comments below “Website Under Construction” (i.e. Mockup #1), you state that “the goal will be..to create a multimedia component to the LvMI site that will draw in new users and people who have no a priori knowledge of what the Mises Institute is all about.” Exactly right, from my point of view.
As an LvMI newbie, the first questions on my mind were: “Who the heck is Ludwig von Mises? What is this Austrian School? What is its focus?” Three of the four prominent tabs displayed on Mockup #1 (Ludwig von Mises, The Austrian School, and Philosophy of Liberty) would guide newcomers easily to the answers to these fundamental questions. Can you incorporate those tabs into the design of Mockup #2?
BTW, Lew Rockwell’s eloquent, passionate “Speaking of LIberty” was the spark that encouraged me. Incorporating Rockwell’s essays could only be a good thing.
A great improvement on the previous version. It caters for all of the major user types: a) the regular user who wants the newest additions, b) the new user, who wants to know what he is looking at and how to find what he can’t see, and c) the connoisseur, who wishes to find a particular piece of content.
I assume Upcoming Broadcasts will most often not be present, otherwise it’d be taking up prime space without offering any content, right? And be replaced by New Media? It’d be weird if the only way to see new content was through the Recent Uploads category.
I’m excited for Popular Media, though you need to be careful that it doesn’t just match the latest available media. Can you drop the Media from the title in favor of Content?
Pleased to see Media Authors, but again, I don’t see the need to include the word Media in the title. Authors was fine.
Very pleased to see Topics included, which will I’m sure present an excellent way to reach content. Appreciate whoever has been tagging all of the files!
In response to the comment suggesting the page is too busy, I think we have to remember what the page is primarily for – ie getting visitors to content. The design itself it excellent, so don’t allow users to collapse and move things around.
One suggestion: make the top intro text more concise.
One question: will new additions to the media section be more prominently featured on the blog? I recall the occasional mention on there when new stuff is available but there are so many blog posts I think you could remind readers when a new Mises Circle or audio book section is available without it overcrowding the blog?
Steven
Please, don’t overdo the Flash (or make it optional or something). I hate it so much. Besides, it doesn’t work at the office.
Is that a flash video I see? That would be great. Much better format than the windows media player format.
BTW, do you LvMI guys know about
Shouldn’t use flash at all…use the new standard HTML “video” tag (with a flash-based fallback for outdated browsers)
Oops; don’t know what went wrong there: doi link.
I think it looks good
Much, much better than the last one. Keep the flash and extra formatting to a minimum.
how come the present media page now gives 2005 lectures as the most recent additions, when the ordering is via “date”? anybody?
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