And why would/should they want to know. I just want my music! For example, I
could care less what technology this site uses:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/
It could just as easily be built using any one of several technologies. It's
the user experience (how they've implemented it) that is impressive.
Kind Regards,
Darren Neimke
[email protected]
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:23:19 +1100
Subject: RE: Our new silverlight site
I find mum and dad users don't even know what tech they are using. "Do you have
flash installed?". "What?". "Can you play youtube videos?"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane Morris
Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2009 8:48 AM
To: ozSilverlight
Subject: RE: Our new silverlight site
I don’t find that sad. Average users should not have to think about whether
something is Flash or Silverlight. We think the technology is cool, users
should just think the site is cool. Hopefully users today don’t say ‘nice PHP
web site’? J
Shane
Shane Morris | User Experience Evangelist | Microsoft Australia |
[email protected] | blogs.msdn.com/shanemo
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winston Pang
Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2009 7:51 AM
To: ozSilverlight
Subject: Re: Re: Our new silverlight site
One thing I find sad about all this stuff is, the average user is going to say
"Nice Flash website". :(
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Miguel Madero <[email protected]> wrote:
I just noticed that you integrated 3 videos with the deep zoom. It looks cool.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Miguel Madero <[email protected]> wrote:
Wow that's nice :)
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
The company history page is another interesting use of deep zoom :
http://www.michaelhill.com.au/#CompanyHistory
Click the pause button to skip the video
On 01/12/2009 10:45am, Miguel Madero <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for sharing.
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> out of the products and then I noticed that it was mainly to "preload".
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> you used deep zoom, SEO and analytics.
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> au mob: +61 414 275 989, us cell: +1 213 422 7068, skype: tathamoddie,
> landline: +61 2 8011 3982, fax: +61 2 9475 5172
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> my business: tixi.com.au – Ticketing without the dramas
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> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Randolph
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> Sent: Tuesday, 1 December 2009 10:55 AM
> To: ozSilverlight
> Subject: RE: Our new silverlight site
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> - I hate menus that disappear! The way the menus disappear
> completely makes the site hard to use. I flipped windows whilst the site was
> loading (sorry short attention span) and when I came back the menus had
> already gone – took me a while to find them.
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> - The site’s infuriatingly slow – all the ui transitions are too
> slow for my liking.
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> (http://www.michaelhill.com/#ProductList?ProductMenuItemId=8&ProductMenuSubItemId=&ParentScreenId=3)
> it’s then not clear where to go from there.....
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> Nick Randolph | Built To Roam | Microsoft MVP - Device Application
> Development | +61 412 413 425
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> The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the
> intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email
> in any way. Built To Roam does not guarantee the integrity of any emails or
> attached files. The views or opinions expressed are the author's own and may
> not reflect the views or opinions of Built To Roam.
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> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross McKinnon
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> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Our new silverlight site
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> Hi all, as you guys aren’t exactly our target market, this can’t be
> considered a cheap marketing email to promote our new website, but more a
> demonstration of how silverlight can be utilized to create a global retail
> branding site.
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> On Monday, we released our new website which is written completely in
> silverlight. If you get a chance to look at the site (www.michaelhill.com) it
> has a number of interesting technical features that I would like to point out
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> are made by the in-built lazy loading of deep zoom product images, plus the
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> 6. Client side state. This reduces load on server such that when a user
> visits a page once, then navigates away / back, the application doesn’t have
> to fetch data from the server. This is difficult to do in a traditional web
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> 12. Animations / effects / scaling create smoother experience for user
> without unsightly page refreshes.
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> 13. ADO.NET data services integration. Rest based / loosely coupled /
> dynamic data access.
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> 14. Data driven application, where all menus / and content on particular
> screens can be changed via CMS. For example, the product carousels are all
> data driven. Dynamic loading of Xaml at runtime allows us to substitute in
> content / animations without rebuilding the application.
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> You might have seen Ross Jempson post to the silverlight list occasionally.
> He is the owner and primary developer of the development company that
> implemented our site. We believe we have achieved a fantastic result and the
> capability of silverlight has helped us get there.
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> Enjoy,
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> Ross (on day 1.....)
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