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My colleague and I are presenting our new website at the Flash Forward Conference in a couple of weeks. Please look at our site and offer suggestions on how we might improve it.
Here is a short description of the site. EASE History is an online environment that supports the learning of US History. It does so by connecting historical events, campaign ads and core democratic values. Users can search on over 600 videos and photographs and view them inside three different interfaces.
This project can be viewed at http://www.easehistory.org/
Thanks.
Brian
SpectreReturns
06-24-2005, 02:16 AM
First of all, frames are bad, but the design looks nice. Kudos.
FAQs
typo
What are the system requirements for EASE History?
Flash player 7 and a high-speed connection are required.
PC users require Windows 2000 or XP and Internet Exploere 6 or above.
The site is optimized for a resolution of 1024x768. If audio and video is out of synch close other applications.
could be wrong but i always see it as sync
There is a lot there to read lol that jumped out
FINALLYYY a site which redirects you if you dont have flash:), but a better method would be for google and stuff, is having a flash app on the non html which on the first frame redirects you to flash and make it as small as possible helps google rating though... upto you
We were using frames in order to hide an ungainly url but are considering dropping the mask because it is causing other problems.
We are going to change the typos.
Thinking about google related search issues.
Anything else that you like or didn't like about the interface/content? :)
Hi -
Thought it was a clean, minimal, site that was fairly easy to navigate.
The main page could use a solid block of color or gray, somewhere - even a body background to offset the content a little more. A dinosaur dial-up user, I found the java and flash rotating images took way too long to load - it would be nice to have static images there and a less complex rotating banner of similar photos, elsewhere.
Don't need to use tables, but that's another story...
As an educator, I'd appreciate some information on how this is to be integrated into the classroom - that is with what other activities, plus when is one student using this - vs. small groups, or whole-class?
As a web user, I'd also like Back to Top links for those really long pages;-)
Seems to be a great flash application, though.
Good luck,
El
Rabidus_lupus
06-26-2005, 09:29 AM
For a website like that, maybe you should have a forum.
I want to try to improve the learning guide this summer. Right now it's a general guide. I see EASE History being used in whole group discussion, small groups if in a lab, and as homework. Low bandwidth and the one computer classroom are two issues are have to figure out. I'm also hoping that sometime in the fall we can enable teachers to set up their own forums. I like the idea of having a forum for the general public too.