Studio Guidelines, version 1.
I have dedicated long hours, months and years to learning the craft of working with audio, I know the things that are to be avoided when in session, and those that are good things to allow happen, even if they are accidents.
These are some guidelines that will help you and me to get our job done much better, sometimes faster.
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I moved from wordpress.com on October 19th, 2011, to this selfhosted site where I feature all my work and my blog. Browse around and share what you like.
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Blend Swap moved to new server.
We moved Blend Swap to its brand new server almost two weeks ago and it’s been running beautifully since. Big thanks to Alex Telford for offering us a new, solid home, and for his constant awesome support through the process and after it helping us resolve some issues.
Y have big issues with the ratings system, which is now completely out of service and inactive.
Matt and I are planning to implement a new rating system that we will place in single entries pages. This would be similar to a plus one or the like button on Facebook, with which you say if you dig or not the blend entry. Should we implement negative points? I don’t like negative points, I think they can become a demotivator for users.
Also the new server is running at full capacity with all your downloads but we are becoming really concerned about the site reaching the end of the month, because we have a bandwidth limit. We have talked a lot about this and I would like to warn our users that we might close downloads to registered users only and that we may also limit downloads per day per user.
These plans are still in concept phase but they are very likely to be implemented in the near future.
We will, of course, keep all the blends open source, but we need to make sure that the site will get to the end of each month with some bandwidth headroom, because if we happen to hit the limit the site goes offline until the end of the month and nobody wants that, of course.
So there you have it, please leave a comment if you have any suggestions on the matter or any other idea. Also please feel free to contact us from Blend Swap’s contact page.
Blend Swap UI experiment
I’ve been experimenting a bit in Inkscape to develop a new “revolutionary” UI for Blend Swap.
My thinking behind this is to offer BSwap users a way more streamlined User Experience and to make the site navigation much more efficient.
The bottom part of the UI has not been designed so it just doesn’t come up in this screenshot. All I want to do is a fluid layout proposal that allows some flexible brwoser window adaptation with max and minimum width. The main idea is o begin offering 36 blend per page, no featured models (because rendering them to the main index is quite a CPU expensive task on the server) and to allow for 4 and 3 blends wide indexing, allowing smaller browsers to be able to display better with the new design (this is a first step into making a mobile browser theme).
Another thing to note is that blend text based info, like the blend name and counters would not be visible at all until you hover the corresponding image, this is to force our users to make good renders as well (I think renders are weak on average on the site, I tend to download a good blend more willingly if I see a good render on the main index page).
I made this quick layout proposal in about an hou after some thought about it, there is still a lot to do, but if you are a Blend Swap user, your comments are more than welcome! :D
July 31, 2011. In: Development, UX
Updates for July 2011
My project with Anastasia has a name. It’s kinda definitive, kinda in process but I’d say this one stays in. Can’t reveal it for now.
In Web D&D: another big project is coming to my portfolio, you’ll see it pretty soon. :)
Life is good, people.
July 22, 2011. In: Development, Music, Notes
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