Ric, Thanks very much for your suggestions. I am not sure what my target audience is, actually, but I guess it is folks who either have a small acquaintance with pre J7, or people who have none but wish to start with JHS.
But I do agree that it is painfully long. Please read on. On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously my impressions are not from the POV of your target audience > so please take them with a grain of salt. > > I don't think that being able to read the text on the Jsoftware web > site at the start is very important. IMO it is more important to show > the page as a whole and where you are clicking on the page relative to > that whole. Yes, I agree, but I had a problem with my screen cast software and the browser, too. My first choice was to increase the size of the cursor arrow, but leave the text only a little larger, but the software would not follow the cursor accurately (although the developer has now informed me that this is not a problem in Firefox, only in Safari). The lesser problem is that I cannot find a way to make Safari or FF make the address field text bigger, so it is unreadable on the small video canvas, imo. Others could chime in on this issue. > > I think it may be useful to break the webcast up into 2 or 3 separate > shorter casts: > a) download, install, run in browser (finish with a 2 + 2 and 2 5 > ?@$ 10 or similar in jijx) - ideally need to do this from a clean > machine without previous install > b) Using JHS interface (jijx, jal, jfile, jhelp, scratch (btw IMO > the main benefit of the scratch is for copy/pasting/running multi-line > snippets of code from other sources)) > c) Intro to using labs > d) Behind the scenes (save the info of where files are stored and > how stuff interacts) I rather like you idea except that my main goal was to get to a point where a user could find and use the Labs, and that is your point c already. Perhaps another alternative would be to leave the video this long, but to supply time points for 2 or 3 midpoints using the trick of postfixing `#t=xxmyyx` to the url, where xx=integer minutes and yy=integer seconds? Here again, others could comment. > > -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
