A Review of MediaCore: An Open Source Video and Podcasting Platform by Michael Moran

Content/purpose more prominent

  • Michael Moran

    Michael Moran

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    • Design: 5
    • Purpose: 5
    • Originality: 3
    • Engagement: 4
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    Content/purpose more prominent

    Posted on Jan 15, 2010 at 4:06 PM

    For one, this is a very nice site. The site makes you want to click. You can't land on the home page, without wanted to dive deeper into the site.

    Adjustments if any:

    • More content or headlines closer to the top so the purpose of the platform is obvious. It takes a minute or two to really focus on what the purpose of the product is.

    • One fix could be to float the browser images in the header to the right/left and place the "view demo button" and "descriptive paragraph" next to them.

    • Make the browser windows more narrow. Right nwo they are a bit overwhelming.

    Very well done. I'd like to see more of your work on here. You could get some great buzz by submitting this site to inspirational blogs for simple/clickable design.

    • Michael Moran
      Michael Moran commented:
      Posted: on Jan 15, 2010 at 4:09 PM

      Oh and one last small detail. This is just preference, but since your design is so clean - I would recommend dropping the extra commas in your tagline/verbiage. You don't need a comma before a conjunction. Plus it looks a little cleaner. Just details. Again nice work.

    • Stuart Bowness
      Stuart Bowness commented:
      Posted: on Jan 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM

      Really great comments here. I'll have to add these to the "to-fix" list.

      When you say it takes a minute or two to focus on what the purpose of the product is... can you be more clear? Does the slogan just not jump out at you? Perhaps the marketing could be more precise?

      Dropping the commas is definitely a good idea. I guess I had it in the copy so I thought it would be good to be consistent which is why it was brought in to the byline.