Soft launch today

I finally have a soft launch for different projects today. Interesting period of time now where I am going to chase the bug, and check the browser compatibilities of my new babies ;-)
And all in .Net !

Apart a bad DNS issue this morning everything is going well and smoothly. The three first site are part of a common project with RTE (Irish television) and are launched as a pilot.
The idea is to implement learning videos and in the future some form of digital tv and interactivity.

Scispy

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Exploring the world of science for primary kids

ScienceUnleashed

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The same than SciSpy but for secondary schools

Iamanartist

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For the moment it's just an homepage, but it will be a tool to show the practice of different arts using videos and flash games

SAFT (Safety Awareness Facts and Tools)

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It's an European project about Internet Safety and everything kids, parents and teachers need to know about chatrroms, Internet access, etc...

Cultural Ireland

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Music website to learn about sounds and music.

 

4 Comments

  • These sites look nice but you force the user into a box and block them from resizing the window. This is very bad UI design. Don't prevent the user from doing something that they naturally do in every other windows program, resize the window. In this case you have chossen the wrong size and I cannot see the bottom of the page and since I cannot resize I get no scroll bars. If you want to have a rich client experience do this in flash.

  • Paul a lot of things regarding your comment.

    First I was not the only to decide on the design UI. I didn't want also to have a Flash stuff there because believe or not, in Ireland Flash is not really successful with schools. Mainly because of the firewall setup where they block mostly everything they don't want to see, including Flash. We did a lot of tests of course before deciding, with teachers, parents and kids of course. They all have problems with Flash or generally speaking, everything looking like a plugin. And for the screen size in Scispy, I didn't have a choice, because the design is a fixed size screen. So if you look closely I have no way I can allow the page to grow up with the user screen, because most of the graphical elements are in absolute positioning with some z-order in their stylesheets to have some elements appearing on top of others blocks.

  • And another thing, the screen size, 800*600 sounds small for us as developers, but for a lot of people, who are still using Windows 95/98 by the way. it's huge !

    I had to 'fight' with them to accept this size.

    Otherwise they would prefer 640*480 !



    I can't imagine the mess at this size ;-))

  • A guy I teach with saw the programmme on RTE and wondered if it was available on video



    please reply p2q@eircom.net

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