A Review of MediaCore: An Open Source Video and Podcasting Platform by Amy Feger

Hi Simple Station,

After linking to your site, I noticed a few things that you may want to consider doing, just to polish things up a bit.

On your front page, the text associated to each of the subtitles "publish", "track","customize" and "administer" seem to have a bit to much space between the words. If you could bring them in a bit to each other the flow of reading it will be easier. Also, on the front page, you have two paragraphs associated with the subtitle "Mediacore". In the first paragraph you are talking present tense and then you switch your subject to past tense. I've learned from many english papers that keeping your tense the same throughout was noticeably important.

The three elements on your front page that feel misaligned to anything are the two dingbats between paragraphs, as well as, the "View Demo " button.

Having looked further into your site The two columns are way too close to each other in the "Features" page. The problem with columns being so close is the tendency for the reader to read straight across the gutter to the paragraph next to it rather than continuing to the next line.

Also under features, I would consider rewording or adding a word after the word "it" under the subtitle "Administrative Dash Board". Right now there is a noticeable gap of white space after the "it".

On your "Download" page, under "Release Notifications" I would bring the words"Name", "company" and "e-mail" closer to the empty boxes that they refer to. ( As to not confuse the reader.) Maybe, also consider leaving a bit more space between that fill in section and the "sign up" button.

Under the "Docs" page the search button is actually broken the pic of the magnifying glass and its frame does not align to the white space for putting in the info. It may be a glich just for Safari views as myself. Yet, it is clearly there for me.

Lastly, as a polish upper from my perspective, would be to change the type in the footer of the page. For example, If you notice the word "Blog" the type is slightly bold and the letters are practically bumping. Now notice how lovely that same word looks as it is in the navigation button at the top of the page. It's the space between letters that made the difference. Yet, for the word "Mediacore" on the footer, not only are the letters slightly bold and squished together but the "e" in "Mediacore" is almost unreadable. So by not bolding or finding another typeface will make the difference it needs.

I agree with Ania, about the line lengths as well.

Even though the light blue color is lovely, it is a cool, calm color. Associated to "Core" it is slightly contradictory. The core of something (your business)... do you want to be warm "hearted" or cold (cool) hearted. It only struck me slightly and I may be too far fetching.

Overall this site looks professional and interesting.