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Bruce · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:25 pm Post subject: Bruce's new main website

ALL FIXED NOW:

New link: http://www.brucemiles.com

Well, I took the kudos and the karps on my Political website, and I ended up listening to the karps and actually got some very nice, modern design ideas from Peter O'Connell. Anyway, I took those ideas and applied them to a planned re-design of my main VO website, which (shudder) I offer for your comments as well. I'm still dinking with little things, but the basics are there. And I know the first video demo is too loud. I'm working on that still. Actually I'm trying to find a way to host the videos myself, but that's eluding me, thus I'm letting others host them until I can.

Oh, and you'll see a link to my totally redesigned Political site if you're wondering how that turned out.

Thanks!

Bruce
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject:

b. i didn't listen to all the demos, only the "i'm not a doctor ..." one, which is funny and weird. ptl Wink

but it's got strange things going on, like a search box and a big arrow and other anomalies, prior to and at the end of play.

good luck!
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Bruce · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:17 pm Post subject:

Well, I got it all figured out now, I think. All the videos are flashy things now coming off my own server instead of YouTube and I've revamped my main site instead of test location:

http://www.brucemiles.com

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ricevoice · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:37 pm Post subject:

When I clicked on it, the site opened and started auto-playing all the demos simultaneously.
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Mike Sommer · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:21 pm Post subject:

And everything loads at the same time.

Don't let the tracks load until clicked upon.
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Bruce · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:14 pm Post subject:

That's totally weird. They're not supposed to autoplay. I'm not sure how to keep them from all loading at the same time either. It's not a big deal with my ISP...they all load up in about 2 seconds, but they are unusually fast.

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ricevoice · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:06 am Post subject:

btw, I'm using Chrome as my browser, on a PC, in case that helps.
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Bruce · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:19 am Post subject:

Apparently I can't do fine tune HTML editing when inserting Flash videos using my website software. Soooo...back to the YouTube videos for now.

Ugh.

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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:12 pm Post subject:

Bruce, it's working fine for me. Looks clean, too. I just love your voice!
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samowry · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:11 pm Post subject:

I love the "Vintage" Ipod. Everything looks and sound great. Nice work.

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:55 pm Post subject:

In Chrome, everything is playing all at once and there are weird scrollbars.

You need to download alternate browsers and do thorough testing.
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samowry · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject:

On my Mac, everything loaded fine with Chrome. I'm just a Mac guy is all I'm sayin'.

bransom · DC Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 650 Location: St. Louis, MO

I just looked on Mac Safari 5 and noticed there was no player visible for your Narration demo. Just the empty space where it should be.
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Bruce · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:56 am Post subject:

Now that's just frikkin' weird y'all. It plays fine on my Firefox and fine on my Safari 4.1 (I guess I should update). The audio demos even work fine on my ancient and discontinued IE for Mac (I haven't updated the Flash player so the YouTube vids won't play on it).

What I'm using is a simple Quicktime player built in to my creation software that should work with everybody. (Thank goodness less than 1% if my viewers use Chrome)

As I've stated before the conflicting and incomplete instructions I get from various web sources on how to install flash just makes my eyes buggy and glassy. Gotta go find me a pro I guess. I just wanted to have control so I can modify the site instantly if I wish.

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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:55 am Post subject:

Bruce, if you like the flash players on my website, let me know. Super-easy to install and I'd be happy to do it for you.
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